RangeMe Omdömen 199

Great Platform

I am a cactus nursery in Florida with innovative products. I have a free profile on Rangeme but this is one big spring trap into which I'm not going to put my credit card or foot. I'm sure that purchasing agents love the convenience, screening and new degree of separation from legions of eager entrepreneurs. But to the hardworking vendor, it appears to be an exploitative commoditization engine extracting an exorbitant $300 for a chaperoned video chat with the potential buyer and no guarantee of a connection, and the $1200/year "verified" membership is insane. I much prefer an open door like my grandfather had as a salesman to this electronic commodity shelf, where one could suit up, hit the streets, pump flesh and have a real chance to persuade a buyer in person - you know....personality, enthusiasm, congeniality, expertise, actual physical samples and confidence earned. And big box stores are flocking to this while closing their doors to me.

I've talked with them, and twice I turned the table on their business model by proposing that THEY front the risk by agreeing to a commission on that big wholesale transaction I'm looking for, if they can make it happen. I never received a response. This makes me think there is more money to be made in fleecing producers in America than there is for the producer successfully selling their wares to big box stores.

I see just another small crew of what are probably Ivy league graduates trying to be the next PayPal or GigMasters by inserting themselves as middlemen to extract unjustified rents off the backs of entrepreneurs already hobbled by inflation, DEI preference and billionaires sucking all of the wealth and agency out of an economy that was far better 20 years ago.

We have been a RangeMe member for five years. In that time we have been invited to only one meeting despite completing questionnaires for 50-60 opportunities. I also spent a year as a RangeMe Premium member and during that year we were invited to zero meetings. We are also a minority owned company, African American to be specific. And although not only RangeMe but also many retailers claim to be looking for minority suppliers to purchase consumer goods from, we have not received even one lead or sale related to our NMSDC qualified status. Accordingly, I suggest that RangeMe management review its policies in order to better serve the communities it claims to serve.

They listen! They also have been super supportive in helping to classify listings correctly, best practices, and always reach out if there is a category buyer that is relevant to us as well as always responding to questions. We would not be where we are today without RangeMe. That is a fact I know for certain.

Kenny Finley
CEO GearHaul, LLC
Chanute, KS 66720

Good communication

RangeMe is where it's at! Provides me access to buyers and category review that I otherwise would not. You betta get you some honey... Muah!💋™️ Joye B. Moore

Provides great opportunities for us.

A sham. Received zero actionable leads. It's like going to a trade show but you cannot interact with attendees and they aren't wearing badges, as you're standing behind a 2 way mirror. They are annonymous. RangeMe presents 'opportunities' and stats that can never be verified - many are probably fake to gin up interest in this platform. Or the *same* business looks at your product multiple times a day for weeks but you told Mr Pillow 'no thank you' to their inquiry but they keep looking and driving up your 'stats'. It would not be difficult to claim that ABC Co or XYZ Inc looked at your products if you never have to say who it actually was, or give their contact information. Actually, business names are truncated which further makes this opaque and murky at best. Paying to be on this platform and you are blind to *any and all* contact information about business that purportedly reviewed your company or products. Utter waste of marketing money, going to yet another tech bro scam, and anyone thinking it'll be grreat - you've been warned.

The opportunities were largely inapplicable to our business as a specialty bread manufacturer.

Yes it was good to submit to different retailers. If you helped he get at least one account i would be a yearly subscriber

I joined Rangme and after approaching a few retailers for my pot pie Rangme set up a meeting with HyVee providing I give Rangeme 300.00 which I did. I did have a meeting with HyVee but it was with a buyer for frozen pizzas not Pot Pies. It was a total waste of money and me time , I tried to contact Rangeme to get a refund but there is absolutely noone to contact. To make matters worse they tried to charge me another year membership on autorenewal whIch I did not know they had me on but I was able to cancel that with my credit card company. I feel totaly ripped off for 399.00 . They are taking advantage of small startup food companies shocking huh?

This is just very professional scam,this company should have been investigating already so far,they bring you in with 99 Pound then will force to upgrade,but it's all about scam waste of time,be careful

They forgot to tell you the personal costs you need to make upfront to get into the retail shops. $100 starter package then upsell via emails and phone calls with Steven. Next $1400 pro to contact retailers. Then some retailers you must agree to pay $500 upfront to rangeme to start the application. You need more money to attend the network events with more sellers than retailers. If you manage to get a retailer interested, have your advertising budget ready. Many retailers don't buy samples which can be 100's. Some retailers ask you to change packaging at your costs. It is a very costly way to get into retail, but you have no choice because the global retailers insist on using them (see retailers websites).

Range Me is a Waste of Time. I can't believe that I wasted so much time and energy perfecting my catalog(s) on this platform over the past 6 years.
Using the "free" option, in over 2 years, one brand received 24 views while the other received less than a dozen.
4 years ago, I paid the premium service for one year. I received a lot of inquiries and requests for products, but I didn't do my homework. I sent out dozens of samples at my own expense to these "companies" to just take them and lose products, not follow through, and some were not even real companies. I wasted hundreds of dollars on sample kits thinking they were potential buyers only to find out that many were just assuming the appearance of a successful business and others had collected samples for the large companies to review, and then failed to get the samples into the proper hands for a review.
RangeMe makes you pay a huge price for premium, but on the buyer side, they don't do any checks to see if the companies are legit, and they don't care that they request samples and don't even get them into the hands of reviewers.
Now I'm told that my company is not going to show up anymore unless I pay $95. "Free" profiles will be limited to one brand and up to 3 products. What a joke.

Incessant emails and phone calls. Multiple unsubscribe attempts that didn't work. Multiple direct requests to stop emailing me. All emails contained high pressure sales tactics. Terrible customer service when asking for account to be deleted, in a bid to get the emails and phone calls to stop. They claimed they had never emailed me. Product is pretty worthless unless you pay the enormous fee (you can't apply for any opportunities) they ask for and they even claim that the free version isn't going to work for your brand. Weird experience all around and definitely not worth the harassment.

None of the people I've talked to had any solutions to my problems! The employees failed to provide me answers, but the worst part is the terrible and incompetent management. The manager I talked to was extremely rude and disrespectful, yet they were unable to help me at all! At least the employees were nice despite their failure to resolve my inquiry.