RangeMeReviews of rangeme.com

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.

Easy to use... Friendly

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.