No one gets to charge whatever they want, but in certain cases where you can determine the margin you can adjust the price.

When I used to work at the marina on high margin items we very often played with the price. Either we would match or beat West Marine, which isn't hard. Or if it was a real good customer, they would get a mark down etc.

Mark up is all realitive, more so on some items. Anchors for example have one heck of a margin. I could really mess with the price on a CQR if I was so inclined.

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You might be surprised. How many folks know the exact pricing for commercial electrical supplies? I sure don't. Counterman could tack on 20% and what am I going to do...........try to find it at HD? Probably not.

Now, if you are a commercial buyer and you purchased 1000's of a given part, you'll know........but..............nobody screws with such a buyer anyway.

I guess thats a lot better than an unwanted, non-traditional, unsanitary condiment.

I have no problem with a a$$ H-O {double hockey sticks} E charge. It helps drive away the kind of customer thats makes running your bussiness difficult.

I do wonder about the wisdom of baseing your price structure on socio-economic/political/personal beef's that have nothing to do with your buisness plan.

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1986 300E 220,000 miles+ transmission impossible
(Now waiting under a bridge in order to become one)

Reading your M103 duty cycle:
http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/831799-post13.html
http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/831807-post14.html

i'll bet if you asked they might have cut you a deal on the gas for goods...barter it's a beautful thang.

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They let me have a GrayBar account several years ago through a business I was running at the time and its pretty easy to tell what stuff costs in my experience of buying electrical supplies to outfit a couple of office buildings. I bought some telephone type tools through them too and they always let you see what their cost is as it is a wholesaler.

The title of the thread is not indicitave of anything positive whatsoever, capitalism, competence at one's job or social skills. If I had an employee that relayed the initial post, I would fire him. Maybe this is why OP is looking for side work?

No wisdom there. Good post.

Yes most people know exactly how much things cost, but these are a once in a blue moon customer. besides, you would fire an employee for making you more profit?

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Guess that means its okay for you to break into a house in a rich neighborhood, since they can obviously afford it.

Its called lying, cheating and stealing.

If the price of gas goes down at Valero next month, will you give them a discount the next time they come in?

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No, I would fire one for relaying to me what you put in your first post--character issue--not economic.

Would you keep an employee that made you a lot of money but molested children in his spare time?

Correct I think its smart business. A$$'s make everyone miserable including the good customers. So in order to weed the a$$'s out you make there experiance unpleasent and they go away.

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John Doe wins the award for summing up this post. Nice job.

I second that.

Apparently we have a lack of honesty around here and are awash with lame excuses trying to justify it.

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Gouging is just that. Fair price for services rendered is a policy to live by.

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I need to attack a couple of the analogies made in this post. First, relating charging extra money at a sale counter to breaking into a rich person's house is just rediculous. He didn't tell them it was 1200 and then charge them 1320 after they left, they knew the price and they willingly payed it, simple economics.

The second rediculous analogy in this post is relating it to child molestation. I realize you were only making a referance to the character aspect of the argument, but once again how could you honestly say that you would fire an employee for something like that, and then use firing a child molester as your justification?

There is a large lack of logic in this thread......

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96 integra SE....sold
99 a4 quattro....sold
2001 IS300.......sold
2002 330i.........current.
2004 highlander limited....current.

I guess if you understood the meaning of honesty, those analogies would be clear.

To spell it out, the first relates to justifying ripping someone off (and the title says "screwed" so he knew what he did) based on their ability to pay and the fact he was "getting even". The second refers to ones character, which is displayed in many ways.

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