The Sports Connexion Limited
Our Experiences with
The Sports Connexion Limited, Inc.
After taking The Sports Connexion Limited's recommendation to start our Sports Connexion distributorship business in Las Vegas, Nevada, we are publishing this information on the web to let you know how things worked out. In a word, lousy.
We had someone affiliated with The Sports Connexion Limited, Inc. set us up with 30 accounts in February of 2001. As of May 31, 2001, we had 7 accounts remaining. The consistent message we received from our customers was that the products were too expensive, and or there is too much theft to have them on display. In April we lowered our prices by 25% to try to increase sales and appease our customers who say the products are too expensive. Unfortunately, this has had no effect on sales and this also reduced our profits to $ 1.75 per sale. This is too small of a profit to be worthwhile but we did it to see if sales would increase. They did not.
At this point we are ready to close down our business which is probably irrelevant because we could very easily loose our remaining customers in the next few months.
We feel we were misled on the viability of the business and the probability of success in the Las Vegas market. We sell on average 1 product per week per account. This is nowhere near what we were led to believe minimum sales would be which according to the literature published by The Sports Connexion Limited, Inc. which is 2 sales per day per account.
We were not happy with the initial variety of products we received. These products were selected by The Sports Connexion Limited, Inc. for us to use in our initial setup was incredibly unbalanced. We received 7 types of sports hats, 3 types of sports shirts, and only 2 types of NASCAR mini cars to. This is what we started with for 30 accounts. Not much selection to initially sell.
We were not happy with the service and the support of The Sports Connexion Limited, Inc. We did not receive our orders on a timely basis. It took over 6 weeks to receive an order and we were told it would take 3 to 4 weeks. The order quantity we receive is wrong part of the time. We ordered 72 dodger hats and received 42. We cancelled our order for XFL hats because we still had not received them by the end of the XFL season and still they were shipped to us. We cancelled an order for Dale Earnhardt shirts and we still received them. We only ordered 96 Dale Earnhardt hats and received 156. We have never received the Dale Earnhardt NASCAR mini cars we ordered.
We were not happy with the quality of merchandise we were shipped and expected to sell. The Lakers hats, Bronco hats, and Portland hats look used. The new Dale Earnhardt hats and shirts we received look shoddily made.
On the whole, we were not happy with this business. We do not recommend it to anyone. We discourage anyone from considering The Sports Connexion Limited, Inc. as a business opportunity.
Before you buy or try from The Sports Connexion Limited, Inc., contact us.
Our Contact Information
Michael Hershberger
M&J Sports
Nevada
mikeljh@bigfoot.com
An Information Web Page
http://www.lvcm.com/mikeljh/sports_connexion_limited_inc.htm