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@tom.
Bit of a weird one, but a few years ago I decided to have a go at being a distributor of bike stuff. Suffice to say, I can't sell to save my life which when combined with a new baby and things picking up in my "real job", means that the distribution company never went anywhere.
This has created a situation where I have a significant (probably £20K+ at retail) quantity of bike bags that I need to do something with. I have accepted that I'm not the right guy to be trying to sell them to shops a few at a time (if I could do that, I wouldn't be in this situation), nor do I want to sit around waiting for them to sell themselves and keep laying out for storage, website costs, etc but they're far too good just to throw away.
Is there some secret buyer that people use in this sort of situation (not that I can imagine many people having gotten themselves into this mess)? Is there someone at Planet X or Chain Reaction that you can phone up? The bags are great, and I honestly think that the problem lies in the way that I approached this/my lack of sales ability rather than any problem with the product.