anyone a member of Stax tradecentre?

[Warnie]

I've just been to stax in birmingham, I went in with my vat reg form, invoices, ID etc, just to open an account and have a brief look at their products and prices, as I've heard their products are cheap enough to sell on at a reasonable margin.

Now because I'm a food wholesaler and looking into other avenues to expand, the two women on the front counter treated me like a piece of dog turd they'd just stepped in, just because I'm not already in the trade. So it seems I'm good enough to be a member of 12 other wholesalers but not them!

Do any of you use them, and are their prices that good? as it looks as though I will need to set up a new company to use them, as I'm interested to hear more about the website they set up for you to sell their products as well.

[theshrew]

Im not a member but my Ex's Parents were. Ive been to the one in Manchester a fair few times. The prices are cheap and they have 2 different prices one for special members or something but not sure how that works. They sell everything from washing up liquid to bags of cement.

For Eg when i did our house up i bought new brushed steel light switches and plugs etc. The little DIY shop that was 2 min from my house sold the same switches at pretty much double the price i paid for them at Stax in fact most of his stock came from Stax and the mark up was a lot on most things he sells.

Edited by theshrew on Friday 29th January 14:31

[Seany88]

I regularly get their mail at my workplace only because the previous owner was signed up to them. Happy to post them out to you if you want to have a look?

[Wings]

Yes, I am at their Bristol branch.

[Benzman]

Having tried to sign up at the Manchester branch some years ago, I was told "on yer bike" it's only for those associated with the building trade.

[jamie750xx]

Agree with OP about the brum branch, had the same treatment by most probably the same two women on the front....I was with my mate who has a warehouse, we were in a van, had a wad of cash and still she wouldnt let us in and thats even with 2 invoices from other places in brum to show that he was a bona-fide retailer

what gets me is their carpark is full of cars, hardly any vans and when you go inside theres old dears pushing trolleys around maybe spending a tenner after waltzin around for 4 hours

the food is good n cheap in their restuarant tho

What kinda stuff were you hoping to get, there are a few cheaper and better places in brum than Stax

[tony m]

ive got a card for stax,some things seem fairly cheap but havent been there for a while,it didnt seem to have as much variety as normal,i only buy for my own use really a few tools and bit for the house,my card also give me further discount as its a retailers card,so where else in b,ham is better and cheaper?

[Wings]

tony m said:

ive got a card for stax,some things seem fairly cheap but havent been there for a while,it didnt seem to have as much variety as normal,i only buy for my own use really a few tools and bit for the house,my card also give me further discount as its a retailers card,so where else in b,ham is better and cheaper?

I also get the extra 20% retailer's discount. As another poster mentioned, lots of cars very few vans, with lots pf grans pushing trollies with one box of soap powder and a pack of toilet rolls on. Never found Stax staff to really question a "trader" to register, I know lots of jobbers, diy shoppers registered with stax. I have also found staff working for large organisations like Fire Brigade, Police, Council to be using a staff card in Stax.