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That's easy. It's 100% due to our Sr. Customer Service Manager James Baldock. Whatever he's being paid is not enough. We joined Range-me a little more than 2 years ago. Maybe closer to 3 years ago. We've been working with James for a little over a year and since his involvement we have been accepted by Walmart for 1600 stores, Hardlines Distribution Alliance and Dollar Tree through the ECRM program and now we are pitching to Lowe's for their Las Vegas Into The Blue program. We've had amazing success. James helped us reorganize our banner page, suggested strategies to help our product look more attractive to merchandisers and simply coached us on how to properly use the resources available to us. James is awesome.

Read the contract before you sign and pay.

Thank you so much for support.

I submitted my item to RangeMe. I wanted to reach QVC et al. It was an AI-generated digigal download photo celebrating America's 250th birthday and would be fabulous for online sales! I was granted all rights by AI. RangeMe rejected my submission. It gave as a reason, "This type of product is prohibited by RangeMe's terms and conditions". I looked at their terms and conditions and could find NO applicable connection to my item. I emailed RangeMe to explain exactly why my item was rejected and got a form letter answer.

Wonderful opportunities, just wish someone would snag up a wholesale opportunity with me. Keeping positive.

Show casing heathy products is important for our country. American Veteran Owned.

RangeMe is the best platform for small businesses, showcasing your business to thousands of buyers. I am very pleased with this platform.

RangeMe has been a total game changer for our 2023 relaunch of MARIMIX Crunch-Baked Snackmix. It’s helped us get real visibility with national retailers, put our products in front of hundreds of buyers fast and genuinely helped us land big accounts. As a founder, that kind of access is priceless. Grateful for the partnership and the platform they’ve built for emerging brands. If you’re in CPG and trying to scale, RangeMe is a no-brainer.

Your resources are amazingly comprehensive. My coach, James Baldock, is terrific, preparing me for every step. I am so grateful

They charge you over $1k to be a premium member so that you can apply to opportunities. They are the same each week. The bulk of opportunities are trade show spots that cost additional fees and such not actual opportunities. Dont waste the money its not worth it. Dont believe these company written reviews. They do not help you , they do not answer the phone, emails, only when they want you to sign up for something else.

Signed a year contract. The sales rep promised that it can be canceled at anytime. 3 months into it, I want to cancel and there's absolutely no one to be found. The rep no longer picks up his phone. There's customer service number constantly goes straight to vm. No response to emails. This company is a scam. I'm reaching out too BBB next.

I would never have had the exposure to major retail brands if it were not for RangeMe.

Still overpriced, still a monopoly (in my mind).

Small scale publisher here from Scotland. In the past I'd have been able to pitch to companies like Tesco or Asda directly by creating industry contacts. Now, I get pushed to using RangeMe as the only valid way to approach retailers. To do that I must pay a fee just to have that interaction. It would be ok if that was a reasonable fee, but it's wholly unreasonable for a small business. setting aside the pointless £99 fee level which doesn't even allow direct submission. Min fee is £1,399 but realistically you need the £2,499 to get anywhere. And that's only if you are VAT registered, try adding 20% on top.

Books, if most people don't know, don't have a high margin. You have to offer a wholesale discount of 40%-55%, and after printing costs etc you are lucky to make 1%-4%. So, if a book retails for £19.99 you'd have to sell over 15,000 copies to just break even with RangeMe's cost. Then remembering retailers can return any unsold books and claim back the wholesale cost, you can guarantee that sales figure is well over 25,000. Again, just to break even!

Why not offer services for small suppliers? Deals that are linked to successful retailer uptake? Or maybe a price linked to supplier size? Or, how about some kind of one-off submission cost to get in front of specific retailers. Or just share the risk with the small supplier.

Now I should mention the free submissions to Asda or Tesco, you can submit once, and only once, to the retailers. So, god forbid you add any new products to your portfolio, you just have to hope the retailer happens across your advert infested supplier page. Then there is the £99 fee just to add more than 3 products. It doesn't cost that much to manage the database.

But there is no incentive for RangeMe to care. They get a fee from the supplier, and I'd bet they get a fee from the retailer, so where is the incentive to do right by either party? And I can get it from the RangeMe PoV, why care about the small suppliers, they aren't value assets at the end of the day. So this acts as a monopoly paywall which actively disincentivises and disenfranchises new companies trying to get their products in front of retailers.

As a note, discount all the "invited" reviews and you will quickly see what people really think of the service. And then read the responses, they all read as AI generated apologetic responses. But actions speak louder than those responses, and RangeMe hasn't changed in the nearly 2 years since my first review, even though the response suggested they take feedback seriously and use it to improve.

Tried reporting to trading standards in the UK as a monopolistic practice or gatekeeper, but because you can technically still directly contact retailers (even though they push you back to RangeMe) and not all retailers require RangeMe (even though all major UK retailers do) trading standards does not consider RangeMe a monopoly or gatekeeper.

So here I am stuck, either hoping that a buyer from one of the major retailers happens across my tiny supplier page on RangeMe, or that RangeMe actually make changes that help small suppliers. Neither point seems likely to me. Until then I'll keep making reviews of RangeMe in the hopes they actually listen. PS, RangeMe, if you'd actually like to resolve this, feel free to reach out via my company details on your database. That's Pesky Publishing Ltd.

The RangeMe platform allowed our company to be vetted quickly and easily. Our Verification opened up opportunities to present to Big Box retailers, previously inaccessible.

It didn't take too longer to reach out buyer. Its Awesome.

Couldn't be more pleased with the platform, their customer service, and the contacts/businesses to submit to.
RangeMe has been pivotal to our companies reach into vital markets. Best investment I have made in a long time.

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We've had a great experience with RangeMe so far. We began our journey with RangeMe almost 2 years ago. We started out working on our page and offering ourselves and got some decent results. However, we recently renewed our subscription with the added benefit of working with a Customer Success Manager. James Baldock has been amazing. His suggestions and assistance has made all the difference in the world for us. James helped us redesign our banner page to make it more appealing to buyers. He gave us advice on how to sharpen our messaging to entice prospective buyers to more closely review our product offering. I believe his suggestions helped us get an invitation to Walmart' Open Call in October of this year which went well for DripLip. James is amazing.

Excellent experience! The team was responsive, professional, and truly cared about customer satisfaction. The product quality exceeded expectations and delivery was smooth and on time.