I have my darts ready and sharpened, The dartboard is set, and round circular pictures of all the networks are on the table just ready and waiting to be pinned up, but just who is going to have the honour of having the dart thown at them??  Well that depended’s on who is going to be late again for next months pricing books.

How often do retail and internet owners have to keep shouting this to the networks WE WANT PRICING 3 DAYS BEFORE DECEMBER!!!  With Christmas starting to loom large, retail and internet companies need to plan ahead, we need to prepare those special Christmas POS materials, we need to decorate the stores, we dealers are getting ready so when the doors open on December 1^st we can greet the first customer and not have to worry about flaming pricing books or if we can sell new deals which we know is coming but have no details for.

Networks if you were trying to gain a contract to supply a big company yet your track record was always late delivery do you think you would get it NO!  You know very well that when you tell the distributors they have to put everything into their pricing books before its sent to dealers, so please for once in your life get it to them early so they can let dealers have pricing 3 days before Dec.  If not it just shows what a lack or organisation you have and the MD’s of those networks should take a serious look to correct it.

The iPhone sales as predicted were well short of that which O2 hyped up they would achieve but we would say come on O2 you are only now talking about letting your authorised dealers sell this but WHY!  You let CPW sell them why not say all other dealers can this week.  O2 missed a trick when they barred all other dealers, they could have achieved better sales, I just cannot see the logic of why they made that decision, it makes no business sense whatsoever.

So Roger Godsiff has summoned Ofcom and all 5 major networks to a meeting over primarily the cashback scandal, but where are the dealer representatives or even representatives from the distributors.  Again the main people that count are missing, and so cannot put their point of view. 

The networks bleat that it’s between dealers and the consumer, yet where is our voice!  The IMPDA is asking dealers if they wish to have a letter sent with their views or to ask MP Roger Godsiff  if he would be prepared to meet with representatives to enable them to put their points of view and suggestions before any decisions are taken which will affect the industry.  If distributors and dealers would like to be put themselves forward to be part of the team to meet the MP’s then please let me know as soon as possible at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it please include your contact tel number.