chess, dealer, reseller, sales, store
chess, dealer, reseller, sales, store
chess, dealer, reseller, sales, store  
 
chess, dealer, reseller, sales, store
Our home page
Read about who we are
See a list of our many MegaChess sets and their individual pieces
See a list of our many MegaChess boards
See a list of all the accessories and options for your MegaChess set
See what is new, what is on sale, and package deals
A few words to particular MegaChess customers
A word for apartment and condominium owners
A word for artisans and anyone who wants to make big chess products for us
A word for campground managers
A word for chess clubs
A word for chess players
A word for contractors
A word for decorators
A word for members of the federal sector
A word for home owners
A word for hotel and resort managers
A word for park and recreation managers
A word for party/event planners and equipment renters
A word for photographers and prop room managers
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Fill out the online application to become an authorized MegaChess dealer
Fill out the online application to become an authorized MegaChess sales rep
A word for schools
A word for shopping mall managers
A word for trophy and award makers
Several different ways to get hold of us
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MegaChess is the largest specialty manufacturer and distributor in North America focused exclusively on large chess sets and their accessories.

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Making the Market for You

Our website gets over 500,000 hits per month, and our parent company, Bizware Online Applications, Inc., has many years of search engine optimization experience, insuring top internet visibility for our products. We have a significant marketing budget for display ads in trade journals,Authorized MegaChess Reseller booths at trade shows, website search engine keyword placement, purchased lead lists, and many other activities that yield sales leads that we share with our resellers. That is how we make the market, and then we turn it over to you, as long as you're an Authorized MegaChess Reseller.

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We Don't Sell Direct

Unlike many online distributors, we do not sell direct to your customers. When you, as a logged-in reseller press a "Buy" button, you can buy from MegaChess. Click to enlargeAnyone else, such as an end user, pushing the same "Buy" button gets the sales page of one of our resellers. When we drop ship to your customer, we can use our invoice or a shipper with no pricing info, your choice. Your customers can't buy from us.

Product Support

We have warehouses in the USA to serve you. That means we can drop-ship our largest chess set from us to your customer to arrive in days. Take a peek at our sales terms and conditions for one of the best warranties in the industry, a complete product refund if the customer is not satisfied.

We have also developed store display products with stunning curb appeal, like a 6-foot chess king to put near a store entrance way to draw from across the mall. Teak chess pieces as brochure and business card holders. Brochures in PDF format you can customize to be your brochures.

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Our parent company, Bizware Online Applications, is a leader in programming ecommerce systems, and they have developed online software that distributes sales leads to our resellers, provides inventory & order management visible to resellers, Click to enlargeand helps you be productive from anywhere and any time.

Pricing

What you see on the MegaChess website is recommended retail pricing. This is not boutique pricing. If you add value, you should charge more, and the market will bear it. Take the teak MegaChess set with the 3-ft tall king, for example. A woodworking shop will bid in the $20,000 range to make one out of a local wood without the beauty of teak. The City of Morrow Bay, CA is on record paying $30,000 for their 3-ft chess set, more than 10 times our price for that chess set out of solid teak. Note also that teak lumber sells for about $8/lb at your local hardwood store. With the 3-ft teak MegaChess set weighing about 900 lbs, that would be $7,200 in just raw materials, plus the scrap carved away. With that MegaChess set priced at less than one third of that, there is plenty of room for a price increase.

How We Pay You

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The MegaChess founder, getting thrashed by Susan Polgar, seven-time World Women's Chess Champ, and one of our more famous resellers.
End Users
Please Note

There is no discount or commission on buying just one (no matter how good your story). So you may as well go through a reseller.

We have the four different payment plans below. Depending on your situation, you may select one or more.

  1. Margins - This is the standard approach for a retailer like a toy store. You buy MegaChess products for less than retail, the amount of that discount determined by the volume of your purchases over time. We will be happy to provide you that discount schedule after we accept your reseller application.

  2. Commissions - This is the standard approach for a sales rep who writes up the order on our website instead of through their company's invoicing system. We will be happy to provide you the commission schedule after we accept your reseller application.

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    Hourly Rate - We do occasionally contract sales services, typically to do some market development that will not immediately yield a sale. We can discuss this after we review your reseller application and the services you propose.

  4. Co-Op Advertising - After we accept your reseller application, we can discuss subsidizing your advertising expenses. This can be a display ad that features MegaChess or even marketing services like telemarketing.

Our 2 Tracks

You can join the MegaChess team on one of two tracks, each with its own policies and reseller application.

Store

In this track, you buy the product at a discount, and we deliver it to you, your customer, or any address you designate. What you charge and who you sell it to are your business.

This is ideal for a:
Game Store
Toy Store
Gift Shop
Garden/Patio Store
Home Furnishings Store

Because you have a business address, we can add you to our MegaChess Near You referral list. One of the most common questions of our website visitors is, "Where can I lay my hands on these things?"


to become an authorized
MegaChess dealer
Salesperson

In this track, you find the customer, and enter the sale using the MegaChess website. We sell the product for the recommended retail price, collect the money, and pay you a commission.

You can view such sales online. Other sales people cannot.

This track is ideal for specialists. This can be by market segment, for example, you focus on campgrounds, chess clubs, resorts, or some other segment where you know the answers.. This can also be by region, for example, you focus on all chess opportunities within a certain metropolitan area.

This is ideal for part-timers, for example, a youth chess coach or instructor who seeks to augment his income through product sales that inspire kids to want to play chess..


to become an authorized
MegaChess sales rep
If you have questions, contact:
Peter Shikli,
MegaChess Reseller Management

949-248-3705 ext.77
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