Hey all,
I've been chatting with a lead sales rep from JBI regarding the troubles some bike collectives have in securing whole sale accounts. He was super sympathetic and wanted to see how he could help smooth over the process.
Any of you all needing help in this regard? Is this still an issue? I know QBP is hard, but has anyone ever tried JBI and had issues?
Feel free to DM me. I can send your contact to the rep so he can help facilitate an account creations.
Cheers, -Momoko
The Rockville Bike Hub in Rockville MD has a JBI account. Our treasurer set this up, so I don't know all the details, but one of the concerns they had was that we make a commitment to sell any parts at normal market prices. They were concerned about non-profit shops selling things below commercial shops and making it difficult for those shops to (JBI's other customers) to compete. I don't recall whether they needed a formal signed agreement to that effect or not.
We don't sell parts to a significant extent right now. Most of the stuff we buy goes into fixing bikes for various programs. Also, we want to maintain the positive relationship we have with area shops, so this seemed like a reasonable thing to do. Of course, on a case by case basis, you could decide to help a client out, but large-scale undercutting of commercial shops is a bad idea.
Steve Andruski
On Mon, Jan 6, 2020, 6:23 AM momoko saunders analyst@bikefarm.org wrote:
The Mechanical Gardens hasn't tried to set up a JBI account yet; the steps on their website seem onerous and it feels like we aren't a match for what they're looking for (e.g. the requests for an "Occupational License for sale or repair of bicycles" and photos of our storefront ... in our case, a church). We'd love help getting this going.
Josh Bisker 914-500-9890 New York Mechanical Gardens Bike Co-op http://bikecoop.nyc/ 596 Acres http://596acres.org/ Bindlestiff Family Cirkus http://bindlestiff.org/
On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 6:23 AM momoko saunders analyst@bikefarm.org wrote:
My experience with Midway is that they require a shop to carry liability insurance. We dont have liability insurance and our application was refused.
On Mon, Jan 6, 2020, 11:48 PM Bk Mk panamahvac@mail.com wrote:
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