I tend not to supply them unless its a granny or something that really cant get them, like the other guys say, you have to watch your turnover.
If you buy the tiles and then charge the money to the customer that is your turnover, so you can soon end up over the VAT threshold, all you need is a few of these nice jobs with tiles that are £90 a M2.
What I do is this.
Its taken a while but I now have 2 shops dealing like this. At first I used to either write 'Full trade discount on my cards or go with the customer when they bought the tiles and give full discount'. Been doing this for a while so one day I said to the manager 'OK you can see im bringing my customers in and theyre getting full discount, how about we split the discount and I write lets say 15% on my card, now heres the good bit before I even got to finish the manager said if you did that then we would give the customer the 15% discount and the rest from the full trade discount we would add up for you to use on addy and materials.
it works like this, say the customer buys 500 quid wortyh of tiles, and they get 15% discount (£75) but the tile slips the other 10% of the full trade discount on your account (£50). the next time you go to the shop for your addy it costs you nowt, and heres the magical part, you still charge the customer trade price for it.
And these were the managers words not mine 'everybody wins in this situation.
Mind it does work better in the smaller chains rather than the bigger ones. I cant do this at topps for example.
give it a go, can save and earn you a fortune for nowt, imagine getting £150 for materials that have cost you nowt
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Sorry Dirrty you werent that clear in your original post, you didnt say you did it that way, sory for the long wonded reply lol your already doing that :lol:
