A newsagent who had recently left newsXpress called our National Account Manager at Big Balloon to place a Beanie Boo order. Big Balloon advised the store that they could no longer honour the newsXpress exclusive discounted pricing offer now that they have left newsXpress. It was also mentioned to this store that they will need to open a new account and go on pro forma for 3 orders.
We are told the newsagent was disappointed, claiming they were lead to believe that the group they had joined could get the same offer. This is not the case.
Big Balloon has no other national relationship with any other group outside of newsXpress.
Big Balloon made it clear to this store that the newsXpress relationship is paramount and that the offer integrity will remain for newsXpress members only . We share this to highlight to members that by acting as a group this is the type of support we can get, it also highlights that Big Balloon are towing the line and acknowledging the relationship forged with newsXpress.
Kudos to to the team at Big Balloon, another reason to support a valuable supplier to our group.
Al