Well I suppose it splitting hairs ... but ... I wonder ... if I
factor in $1 to cover my time to take the package to the Post Office,
is that "handling" or "profit" ????
Just for the sake of the discussion. Part of what I call 'handling'
in my small business is the PayPal fee which of course slides up as
the dollar value goes up. How do yu stand on the PayPal fees ???
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cheers ... 73 de brian riley, n1bq , underhill center, vermont
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On Jan 8, 2007, at 1:23 PM, Gerhard Fiedler wrote:
> Herbert Graf wrote:
>
>> Because the s/h charge is padding their profit margin, something s/
>> h is
>> NOT presented as doing. s/h should cover s/h, it's not called s/h/
>> profit
>
> Now why is this? With the same right someone could say that the
> item price
> should cover only the item cost (otherwise it should be called
> item/profit), and the handling is where they should make their profit
> (because it's where they add value to the product), and anything
> else is
> dishonest.
>
> Just because most traditional stores do it one way doesn't mean
> that other
> ways are dishonest.
>
> You yourself said (in another message) that you only care about the
> final
> price, and don't care about /how/ it got calculated. Which I
> wholeheartedly
> agree with.
>
>
> (Of course I agree that it is very desirable to know the final price
> online. I almost never shop with companies that don't show their final
> price, so maybe that's why I don't have many complaints here. But
> that's a
> different question.)
>
> Gerhard
>
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