Re: FOR SALE: World Peace $100 obo

[Tom Spaulding <tspauldi@gibson.com>]

>
>Too bad the price isn't based on a fixed profit margin, so as to give the
>customers the best possible value. But if the information will help: I'd
>be willing to pay $100 for such a device.
>
>- chris

Chris-
Thanks for your reply. Hmmm... I guess we won't get a sale from you!!

Maybe you just left off a zero...!!

Here's how it sorta works: Viscount develops a new product/technology. They then propose a price to us based on their cost of R&D (greedy engineers), manufacturing costs (disgusting factory laborers) and build in a fair profit margin for themselves.

We inevitably ask for a lower price and try to get it as cheaply as possible, so we can offer it at a fair profit (pesky wife and mortgage and all them hangers-on, ya know).

We then sell it to a dealer, after designing (darn creative types)and printing (awful press owners)and distributing (evil truck drivers)ads/brochures and buying space (nasty ad editors) to put them in, and he sells it to you for a fair profit.

(Only because he needs your disposable income, which you really shouldn't even have, because everyone should work as cheaply as possible and at fixed profit margins - just enough to cover costs, so as to give employers the best possible labor value). :)

Tom "Just a Sittin' Here Gettin' Filthy Rich" Spaulding