Vinyl Me Please (store, exclusives, swaps, etc)

If a corporation gives a code, use it. They don't actually care if some people that it's not meant for use them. They just care about how many things can sell and how much money they rake in via those sales. They are still making money on 100% of the things sold and the fact that VMP can offer 40% off and still make money just drives home how egregious their pricing is in the first place.
 
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MikeH said:
capitalism baby. i'd wager that nearly everything you buy day-to-day has way more than a 40% markup from cost of production.
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I think someone mentioned a while back about the markup on cables. The company I used to work for would throw Ethernet cables on all our data center hardware quotes for $300 a pop. Granted these quotes were usually $50k-$1M in size, so they figured the customers often wouldn't notice and they usually didn't put didn't care. But our cost on each was about $3. When a customer did notice half the time they would complain and then still just buy them from us rather than order a couple off Amazon for $10. It wasn't their personal money, so why go through the whole procurement process again on just a few cables. Total rip off. But I'd make a $10 bonus on each one I sold so I did the dirty work.
 
Hemotep said:
I think someone mentioned a while back about the markup on cables. The company I used to work for would throw Ethernet cables on all our data center hardware quotes for $300 a pop. Granted these quotes were usually $50k-$1M in size, so they figured the customers often wouldn't notice and they usually didn't put didn't care. But our cost on each was about $3. When a customer did notice half the time they would complain and then still just buy them from us rather than order a couple off Amazon for $10. It wasn't their personal money, so why go through the whole procurement process again on just a few cables. Total rip off. But I'd make a $10 bonus on each one I sold so I did the dirty work.
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But... but MY cables are special...

they go to... eleven...
 
Hemotep said:
I think someone mentioned a while back about the markup on cables. The company I used to work for would throw Ethernet cables on all our data center hardware quotes for $300 a pop. Granted these quotes were usually $50k-$1M in size, so they figured the customers often wouldn't notice and they usually didn't put didn't care. But our cost on each was about $3. When a customer did notice half the time they would complain and then still just buy them from us rather than order a couple off Amazon for $10. It wasn't their personal money, so why go through the whole procurement process again on just a few cables. Total rip off. But I'd make a $10 bonus on each one I sold so I did the dirty work.
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Accessory margins are insane!! But then again the margins on the actual hardware that they are used for have much slimmer margins so they make up for it through insanely priced necessities. I know electronic stores used to make like 1-3% on the actual TV, laptop or desktop and often the sale of one USB or HDMI cable would come with more actual profit than the main big ticket item.
 
JonnyH said:
I'm currently selling an item for $20 that cost to produce is just under $5. Shhh.....
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