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honey the codewitch15-Dec-22 8:42
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Chris Maunder15-Dec-22 2:34
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I can't believe I'm biting, but WTH...
Slacker007 wrote:
the rest markup for profit

I'm assuming when you say "worth a couple hundred" you mean "costs a couple hundred to make". It's "worth" what the market will bear, but the costs to produce is evidently $501 (and I was talking Canadian $, not US, sp adjust).

That 'cost' means 'to make it'. It has nothing to do with research and development, shipping, design, marketing, legal, all the sales costs, insurance, and everything else that goes into taking a product from design to the pocket of a consumer.

I may seem a little defensive here, but I do get annoyed when people think that a company should take risks, pay their rent, handle all the paperwork governments and suppliers throw at them, pay salaries, and get the product into the hands of their customers for the cost of building the product. The 'build' (or write, or perform, or whatever) can be the smallest part of the overall cost of taking an idea to reality. The hidden costs, the stress, the overheads, the margins added by suppliers or resellers at every single step along the process should never, ever be dismissed.

Running a business is really, really hard. Keeping it profitable so you have the space to innovate and not be spending your days foraging to survive is even harder.
cheers
Chris Maunder


modified 15-Dec-22 8:40am.

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