Feel bad for the dealers

[Fishnmaine]

Minelab is getting ridiculous all they are doing is suppling Cabelas with Manticores. They had them for 3 days this past week then out of stock Thurs. and got supplied again today. I would say they had them on 6 occasions. Meantime my Dealer is still waiting and waiting and waiting. And he's a very reputable dealer in New England Area and getting pretty fed up with Minelab. I'm not buying from Cabelas until he has them. These guys are the heart and soul of this hobby. But it seems they are last on minelabs list. Pretty sad!!!

 

[nagant]

I don't understand it either. Is some middle man up selling somewhere? I bet dealers have confronted minelab for answers, what are they hearing back?

 

[Fishnmaine]

My dealer is fowarding all messages to Minelab that people sending him about the situation. Will they listen, doubt it!!

 

[GaryB]

It’s called allocation. Dealers , and that includes Cabela’s and other large chain stores, that move larger volumes of product get stock first. I doubt that Minelab sells directly to retailers. More than likely they sell to distributors who then sell to retailers. The stock is allocated proportionally to how much a dealer sells. A store that sells a $10,000 of product gets ten times as much of the available stock than a store that sells $1000. When the new stock situation improves then everyone will get what they need. Until then that’s the way it is. All businesses operate this way not just the metal detector business. The car business does the same.
When there’s a power outage after a storm the power company restores power to the largest blocks of homes and businesses first. Same principle. Business 101.

 

[Ted S]

Maybe check out a different dealer. Richard at Backwoods is a sponsor here and is a good guy to deal with.

 

[Andy NM]

Minelab is getting ridiculous all they are doing is suppling Cabelas with Manticores. They had them for 3 days this past week then out of stock Thurs. and got supplied again today. I would say they had them on 6 occasions. Meantime my Dealer is still waiting and waiting and waiting. And he's a very reputable dealer in New England Area and getting pretty fed up with Minelab. I'm not buying from Cabelas until he has them. These guys are the heart and soul of this hobby. But it seems they are last on minelabs list. Pretty sad!!!

That is an example how Minelab treads their "old" dealer network.

Cabelas get the Manticores in, while the smaller dealer, who advertized and took preorders are left without supply.

In Germany the biggest distributor for Minelab detectors just fired Minelab, because Minelab tried to "steal" her dealer network behind her back to supply them straight. Also communication is very slow.

Minelab is under pressure because of the fall of the Codan Share. (Minelab belongs to the Codan Group.)

All dealers in the US should be aware of what's going on, because if you still think, you (small dealer) are the future, you're wrong.

Many "old" dealer in Germany have stopped selling Minelab products, because they don't like what Minelab does to them anymore.

Now, Minelab has problems to get the new detectors (Manticore, Nox 900 and 700, XTerra) on the German market.

4 new detectors and lost the distributor and many dealer.
Customer here in Germany are mad at Minelab anyway, because the Manticore can not be delivered and many customer, who had the Manticore say the Deus 2 has more depth.

Andy

 

[Listener]

Finally my Manticore came last week from Kellyco. Downloaded the manual and had it printed up and put in a binder at Office Depot.
Turned out really good in color.
Been reading up and looking out today at rain and snow off and on. Bummer.
Hope there will be a Manticore forum classroom eventually to get some pointers for guys like me with their first Minelab.