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Foreign service of joint purchases. Skolchina is an online service for joint purchases. How does the joint venture work

And much more at wholesale prices.

The audience of our site is Internet users: organizers and buyers who want to purchase goods at wholesale prices.

We have been working since 2014, we are more than 3 years old) All this time we are constantly developing and growing, making our site even more convenient and understandable, constantly expanding the functionality of the site.

We employ about 200 organizers from different cities of Russia, they carry out more than 1,200 purchases for you, offering more than 1,500,000 products in different categories, from food to furniture.

Let's figure out what Joint purchase and.

1. How does the joint venture work

3. How to pay for an order

Basic payment methods:

1. To the organizer's bank card

2. Cash upon meeting

3. To an electronic wallet

4. To the account of the organizer

After the purchase is collected, you must pay for the order (the organizer will change the status of the purchase to "Payment", you will receive a written notification about this). Pay for the order only when the purchase payment is announced, or if the organizer asked you to pay in advance (for example, in the case of a pre-order).

After payment, you need to notify the organizer about it. To do this, go to "My orders", then follow the link "Specify payment information" and "Add payment". The data you entered is saved automatically. After the organizer of the purchase receives your payment, he confirms the payment and you will see in the "My Orders" section that your payment has been accepted.

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4. How to receive an order

Each organizer has its own conditions for the delivery of your order, they are all spelled out in the purchase conditions. The organizer must hold at least one meeting (usually some kind of metro station is chosen for orgov from Moscow), there is also usually a self-pickup, courier delivery. Recently, more and more often, our organizers use pickup points for picking up orders. We advise you to familiarize yourself with the terms of delivery in advance, before you made an order in the purchase.

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Concept firmly rooted in the modern life of people who value their time and money.

Terms and concepts of Joint purchases:

  • Procurement Participant (Buyer, UZ)- registered p the user from the website who accepted and expressed the intention to purchase the goods
  • Organizer- the user who created an offer for the sale of goods (purchase) on the site. Can work on 100% prepayment from procurement participants
  • Organizational percentage%- the remuneration that the organizer receives for his services in organizing the procurement.
  • Ransom- one of the stages akupki , in the creation of which aboutthe organizer provides participants with access to information about theovars posted by him onayte, and indicates their cost, procedure and terms of order, payment and receipt
  • STOP- the end date for accepting orders from JV participants. After the announcement of STOP by the organizer, you cannot refuse the order
  • Annex- sale of a new, unsuitable for any reason, goods from the purchase.
  • Minimum ransom amount (minimum)- the minimum purchase amount
  • Re-grading- goods of the same article, but of a different color, or of a different size
  • Size range- a certain amount of one article required for redemption from the supplier
  • Pre-order- the goods are not yet in stock, but there is already a price list and you can place an order, the redemption is made as the goods arrive at the supplier's warehouse
  • Prepayment- collection of payment for orders after the announcement of STOP before the invoice by the supplier.
  • Newbie organizer - an organizer who decided to try himself in this field for the first time. Can only open 1 purchase. The second and subsequent can be opened only after one successful redemption. The first redemption can take place at 50% prepayment
  • Successful ransom - completed distribution of goods ransom, passed without complaints from participants
  • Distribution- delivery of goods to procurement participants. Distribution is considered to be meetings, self-pickup, courier delivery, pick-up points for picking up orders. More details

Everyone knows that the price of a product offered in a store includes rent, the seller's salary, and, of course, a percentage of the store owner's profit. The price in the store for the same item will be 2-3 times more expensive than in the joint venture.

The unshakable truth of trade operates - wholesale is cheaper. And the benefit reaches half of the retail cost, and sometimes more.

The main statuses of buyback in Joint purchases:

  • Collecting orders- the ransom is open, orders are being collected.
  • Order collection is over- the collection of orders is over, the organizer stops the redemption, clarifies prices with the supplier, sends an application to the supplier. Automatic change of order statuses "New" => "Committed".
  • Additional order- reopens accepting orders, for example, for picking up due to the lack of part of the ordered goods from the supplier. Automatic change of order statuses "New" => "Committed".
  • Payment- the participants in the redemption are notified of the need to pay for their order within the time period specified in the note, you can start a new ransom... Automatic change of order statuses "New, Committed" => "Included in invoice".
  • Payment to the supplier- informing that the process of payment to the supplier is in progress.
  • Order on the way- all orders have been paid, the data has been sent to the supplier, the participants are awaiting their orders.
  • Distribution of goods- the parcel has arrived, the participants are notified of where and when they can pick up the orders. Automatic change of statuses of active orders to "Delivery".
  • Completed- all orders have been handed out, the redemption has been completed. Installed when the ransom has been successfully completed.
  • Suspended- used if you need to suspend the buyout, for example, due to your temporary absence or an incomprehensible situation with the supplier.
  • Canceled- The buyback did not take place, orders are automatically transferred to the "Canceled by the organizer" status.

Benefits of Buying Together:

So, let's summarize. With what :

1. There is no need to overpay for the goods, the wholesale price with organizational percentage% is still much lower than in retail chains or even on the market, because the price does not include the rent of premises, the seller's salary, utilities, and transportation costs.

2. No need to waste time and go shopping in search of the right product, just click and order.

3. In choosing a product, the organizer will always help you figure it out. WITHwith local purchases.

4. Unlimited variety of goods for purchase in WITHjoint purchases from stationery to household appliances and furniture.

5. You can always find a scarce product that is not in stores in your city.

6. The ability to order goods from foreign sites and receive it by wholesale price!

7. Participants WITHjoint purchase a lot, therefore, delivery is much cheaper, since it is divided among everyone.

8. You can place a thing that does not suit you for any reason in the section , and you can boast of a successful purchase in

Why us:

Our service provides a platform for conducting purchases completely free of charge, without collecting any commissions and entrance fees from both participants and organizers of purchases.

We have welcoming and friendly organizers, oha very large selection of goods, a wide coverage of cities in which purchases are carried out, procurement participants from all over Russia and Crimea! Up-to-date new items of goods appear very often, prices for goods of any category are the lowest of many joint procurement sites, since our organizers are very responsible in choosing suppliers.

We tried to make a simple and understandable site open to everyone who wants to organize Joint purchases and participate in them. We are regularly updated, constantly adding new interesting features, and there are many interesting things ahead of us: we are just at the beginning of the journey.

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We wish you successful shopping and pleasant communication!

Co-op shopping is a method of organizing shopping where people come together to buy goods at wholesale prices directly from suppliers or manufacturers. This provides buyers with significant discounts, and provides sellers with good sales volumes. How to participate in a joint hunt for cheap goods, we figured out with the experts.

Wholesale retail

According to Artur Movsesyan, co-owner, development director of Sport Wholesale LLC, who has been cooperating with the organizers of joint purchases (JV) for 5 years, the JV's work scheme is simple.

“There are people who want to save money and buy goods at a wholesale price (no retail margin). On the other hand, there are wholesalers or manufacturing companies that sell products only in bulk. Accordingly, the joint venture is the link between these entities.

How does this happen? On the part of the joint venture, the organizer of the purchase acts - a person who is looking for suppliers of goods and organizes the purchase of goods itself. To do this, he contacts the suppliers, asks for the purchase conditions (minimum batch, quantity, delivery time, etc.), and then posts, for example, on the forum this information... For services (organization of procurement, logistics, storage of orders), the organizer of the joint venture takes from 10 to 20%. Thus, buyers pay this mark-up to the wholesale price, ”said Artur.

Each purchase has a deadline, that is, the date when the acceptance of orders by the supplier stops. Forum participants leave applications for a specific product. Each participant can order any product in any quantity. If the sum of all orders for this supplier meets the conditions of the minimum order, then the purchase occurs, if not, it is disbanded.

Vladimir Ivliev, Executive Director of FindTenders.ru, adds: “The organizer collects orders and places, for example, at a plant or a factory (or companies close to it). Some factories (especially Russian ones) are categorically against this (the organizer of the purchase in this case writes “please do not call the factory and do not disrupt the purchase”), but most work with pleasure. For example, to purchase goods from brands such as Kerry or Lenne, you can find several dozen purchases taking place at the same time. "

Mila Borodina, administrator of the service for the organizers of the Delenka JV, said that their site is only six months old, but the traffic that it has now achieved indicates that the direction of joint purchases from Russians is very developed, and there are not many offers from the joint venture.

“There are few joint venture sites that can boast of a wide assortment with model-sized sub-sorting (at Delenka you don’t need to accumulate orders of one model of different sizes, you can choose any model and size - the main thing is that the goods are from one warehouse),” says Mila ... - Our secret of success lies in the fact that Delenki warehouses are ordinary retail stores that display assortment in an online showcase with a small wholesale markup of 15–20% (in retail the minimum possible markup is 70%, and this is a rarity, usually 90– 100). By connecting to the online storefront, warehouse owners do not need to create their own website, hire people to promote it on the Internet, etc. For this, you have to pay a small commission from each online order. "

Two sides of the coin

“The joint venture has a huge number of advantages. The most obvious is the price, plus additional ones: parties, reviews, assortment, receiving goods near home. On the downside, I would include the risks associated with waiting: usually you have to wait a little more than usual (from 3-5 days to 2 months), "said Mikhail Iosilevich, owner of Tesla LLC, who has been working with partners for about 7 years. JV in Nizhny Novgorod, Yekaterinburg and Novosibirsk

In addition, Vladimir says that often on joint purchases there is a section "annex", where things go, for some reason, left over from previous ransoms. Among them, you can very favorable prices buy goods without waiting for collection and delivery. "

Artur Movsesyan adds that with the help of the JV it is possible to purchase goods that are not sold in your city, which is especially important for distant regions of the country. “The only thing is that often a person orders a pig in a poke, because there is no way to try on the product, feel the texture, etc., and plus a long waiting time for the goods, but this does not suit everyone.”

Foreign purchases

The history of the emergence of joint purchases indicates that this trading instrument appears as a reaction of the market to a drop in citizens' incomes.

This was the case in the 1860s in the United States, when the first consumer association we know emerged. The founder of the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, George Gilman, has invented a completely new marketing technique. He sent his neighbors "letters of happiness" in which he suggested creating "shopping clubs" for joint orders of tea and coffee with a decent discount for wholesale. The goods were delivered weekly, and the organizers received an additional package of the drink for their efforts.

Several large group shopping catalog sites emerged in the United States in the late 1990s. They were intermediaries between suppliers of goods and buyers. JVs appeared in Russia in the mid-2000s with light hand young mothers. They offered to unite and make collective purchases in various forums. And after certain time the most active themselves began to organize wholesale purchases for a small percentage.

Marina Soboleva, PR manager of the Parenthood Center family complex, says: “For the first six months after the birth of my son, I more than actively participated in foreign purchases popular brands such as Gymboree, George, Crazy, H&M, Dorothy Perkins, etc. The difference in quality and price is simply indecent. All this happiness was inhibited with the increase in the exchange rate, but she managed to dress her son for 2–2.5 years in advance. Only recently began to buy something a little, and he was 2 years old in a month. Before that I only wore "overseas" new clothes, and for a long time - they seemed to grow up with the child. "

Vladimir Ivliev only once resorted to joint purchases directly from a foreign website of an online store: “Many foreign online stores do not deliver to Russia or do it very expensively, and joint purchases allow us to divide these costs among several people. Well, volume discounts never hurt. "

The price of the issue

How much can you really save on joint purchases? This question cannot be answered unequivocally. It all depends on the product. For example, 1 kg of Italian chocolate costs about 440 rubles, while retail for this money can only buy a 200-gram bar. True, this example is "record". The markup for computers is small (about 9%), so they are not bought in bulk.

As a rule, the difference is 50%, but maybe 5-10%, which still does not stop Russians from joint purchases. In addition to a good price and an opportunity to save money, people also get a larger assortment available in wholesale warehouses.

“I use joint purchases to purchase children's goods, primarily clothes,” says Vladimir Ivliev. - There are several Russian sites specializing in this, but I prefer babyblog.ru. Now it is no longer just a forum, but a full-fledged web service. Since I have been using it for 5 years, most of the suppliers are already known to me, and I can trust them. The most frequent order that I have to deal with is the order of Finnish (and not only) outerwear. These things are quite expensive, it is safe to send them by mail, the sizes are clear and you can try them on in any store before ordering there. The benefits are tangible, sometimes up to half the cost (2 years ago, Kerry's jumpsuit in stores would have cost 3 thousand rubles, and on this site I bought it for 1,700). "

Shop killers?

Is such user activity profitable for the business? Yes and no. On the one hand, many wholesalers or manufacturers have their own or partner retail stores. If a supplier starts working with a joint venture, he deliberately enters the path of contradictions with them and with retail customers. On the other hand, every business strives to increase sales. Therefore, many companies still find ways to cooperate with the joint venture, without prejudice to the customers of the stores.

“Firstly, the contingent of people who buy in the store and through the joint venture is different: buyers who want to receive a service (try on a product, understand whether it suits them or not), as well as buyers who need to receive a product here and now, are willing to overpay a little. and go to the store. The category of buyers who, for the sake of a small difference in cost, are ready to wait for the goods for several weeks, and sometimes even months, will order through the joint venture. Therefore, the joint venture will never become a “shop killer”. Secondly, not all people know about the joint venture, and some do not trust them, so out of habit they go to the store to shop, ”Arthur Movsesyan argues his point of view.

Marina Soboleva believes that this system with a joint venture is beneficial for business and industrial representatives - they sell additional volumes of goods on a regular basis. “But large and well-known brands of the joint venture are not very welcoming (a lot of 'fiddling', risks of delays in payment, which is critical for them, etc.). That is why hidden joint ventures appear, available, relatively speaking, only to a select few. As for the organizers of purchases, they say that for active and managed to get really cool purchases in popular niches, this is the main source of income, quite an average market salary. "

Over the past year, and even those who previously did not pay attention to the price tags in stores, now look at them, comparing and looking for where it is cheaper. Therefore, the demand for joint purchases is growing, and the number of online services that optimize the process is increasing.