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I tried one (up thread) which promptly closed a few weeks after my first order. One of the coffees was dire and over roasted (to my taste).
And this was after ticking the ‘light fruit driven African coffees’ box.
If I felt a subscription offered what I liked I might try again but what I don’t want is a bag of cheap Brazilian with horrible papery after taste to turn up and go in the bin, if you could pick countries you don’t want to include that would be a bonus.
I guess coffee subscriptions maybe are not for me…
I do have assembly, Colonna and Baileys stockists 2 min walk away so not reliant on ordering beans.
For a producer I guess you might end up getting orders from people who try the coffee, like it and then want some more.
Mr_Smyth-
Thanks, that’s good stuff. So the subscription was randomised?
I’m really trying to find ways of getting people to pick my coffee over competitors on the same platform. We were on Gustatory at the start when they had their marketplace for buying individual bags 1-off, but it didn’t generate many leads and we didn’t really put our backs into it. Seemingly that model is dead and it’s now mostly randomised subscriptions so maybe it’s not relevant.
Stevethecoffee
Hi all
Are many people on this thread using multi-roaster subscription services?
I’ve avoided selling on them after a bad experience early on, plus I always had a bad attitude about them being parasitic and it’s a load of extra admin (avoiding admin plays a surprisingly large role in my life) but I now have the staffing capacity to get someone else to do it.
What are important factors in the roasters’ areas of these sites that makes you pick them? Reputation? Price? Breadth of choice? Coffees you recognise?
Cheers.