RangeMeReviews of rangeme.com

Great Exposer for Supplier's.

Seems like it should be helpful, but I have not got any type of actual lead in the 2 years of subscribing. All my resellers are from my own personal contact with them.

Waste of many man hours.

Not enough support for brands, too focused on retailers and events.

The access to purchasers and campaigns.

Great Platform

I am a cactus nursery in Florida with innovative products. I have a free profile on Rangeme but this is one big spring trap into which I'm not going to put my credit card or foot. I'm sure that purchasing agents love the convenience, screening and new degree of separation from legions of eager entrepreneurs. But to the hardworking vendor, it appears to be an exploitative commoditization engine extracting an exorbitant $300 for a chaperoned video chat with the potential buyer and no guarantee of a connection, and the $1200/year "verified" membership is insane. I much prefer an open door like my grandfather had as a salesman to this electronic commodity shelf, where one could suit up, hit the streets, pump flesh and have a real chance to persuade a buyer in person - you know....personality, enthusiasm, congeniality, expertise, actual physical samples and confidence earned. And big box stores are flocking to this while closing their doors to me. I've talked with them, and twice I turned the table on their business model by proposing that THEY front the risk by agreeing to a commission on that big wholesale transaction I'm looking for, if they can make it happen. I never received a response. This makes me think there is more money to be made in fleecing producers in America than there is for the producer successfully selling their wares to big box stores. I see just another small crew of what are probably Ivy league graduates trying to be the next PayPal or GigMasters by inserting themselves as middlemen to extract unjustified rents off the backs of entrepreneurs already hobbled by inflation, DEI preference and billionaires sucking all of the wealth and agency out of an economy that was far better 20 years ago.

We have been a RangeMe member for five years. In that time we have been invited to only one meeting despite completing questionnaires for 50-60 opportunities. I also spent a year as a RangeMe Premium member and during that year we were invited to zero meetings. We are also a minority owned company, African American to be specific. And although not only RangeMe but also many retailers claim to be looking for minority suppliers to purchase consumer goods from, we have not received even one lead or sale related to our NMSDC qualified status. Accordingly, I suggest that RangeMe management review its policies in order to better serve the communities it claims to serve.