{"id":1914,"date":"2010-05-21T07:38:27","date_gmt":"2010-05-21T02:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thirdeyesight.in\/blog\/?p=691"},"modified":"2010-05-21T07:38:27","modified_gmt":"2010-05-21T02:08:27","slug":"chargebacks-the-ugly-side-of-retailer-vendor-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myechoproject.com\/TES\/chargebacks-the-ugly-side-of-retailer-vendor-partnership\/","title":{"rendered":"Chargebacks &#8211; the Ugly Side of Retailer-Vendor Partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A\u00a0lively discussion \/ debate took place on Retailwire.com about whether retailers were using chargebacks as justifiable penalties for poor performance by vendors or an unjustified means of generating income for the retailers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The fact is that fees, discounts and chargebacks are becoming more common, and in private conversations &#8211; when no retail customer is within earshot &#8211; vendors will verify this. Retailers say that such chargebacks are only compensation for vendors not complying with processes that have been clearly laid down and agreed to, since non-compliance creates extra costs for the retailer, or loses the retailer margin.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But is vendor performance really becoming worse with each passing season? Or is it that difficult trading conditions or insufficient skills are making buyers take this easy road to margin?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It&#8217;s an open secret that merchandise quality and delays\u00a0&#8211; the two most common causes for chargebacks\u00a0&#8211; are easily overlooked when the market is hot and the product is in demand.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chargebacks are a dangerous tool in the hands of a lazy, short-term thinking buyer who is incentivised on gross\/realised margins from season to season; to him\/her they are a quicker way to get to that bonus check for the season. Pragmatic vendors, for the most part, don&#8217;t want to antagonise the buyer because that risks not just business with the current retail customer, but any retailer that the buyer moves to in the future.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It&#8217;s ironic that vendors are mainly cited as &#8220;partners&#8221; when it comes to sharing the retailer&#8217;s pain. I don&#8217;t recall any retailer calling such vendor-partners up to a stage for distributing checks to share extra margin in particularly profitable years. Comments are welcome from anyone who can remember that happening; we&#8217;ll all have something inspiring to quote in industry meets, then. (And I&#8217;m really hoping some comments quoting such incidents will appear soon!)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Retailwire discussion on this topic (with comments justifying both sides) is here &#8211;\u00a0&#8220;<a title=\"Clothing Vendors Take a Chargeback Hit, Retailwire.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.retailwire.com\/Discussions\/Sngl_Discussion.cfm\/14506?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Clothing Vendors Take a Chargeback Hit<\/a>&#8221; &#8211; and the original article in Crain&#8217;s New York Business is here &#8211;\u00a0&#8220;<a title=\"Retailer fee frenzy hits designers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.crainsnewyork.com\/article\/20100516\/SMALLBIZ\/305169962#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Retailer fee frenzy hits designers<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is vendor performance really becoming worse with each passing season? 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