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arista 26-10-2013 03:26 PM

Profit is Good and is Needed
 
For example
If I buy direct from China
50,000 UK Radio Controlled Clocks
with alkaline batteries (use by 2022).
Quality sealed in a pack,
I pay one total bulk block price.


I then make a profit on them
after selling them to traders.


Per Unit after tax ,my profit would be £3.


Now that is Very Fair.


I have to Temp Store them
after collecting them from the port.
Then trade them.


Profit is needed as it keeps you trading
I hope some of you can understand this Logic.


Life In The City.

Stu 26-10-2013 03:27 PM

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Kizzy 26-10-2013 03:29 PM

That is trade, yes very good... What's your point?

fingers 26-10-2013 03:31 PM

So what is the cost of 50,000 units including Import Duty?

Stu 26-10-2013 03:32 PM

You should go all out and do a Wall Street 2 : Money Never Sleeps inspired costume for Halloween.

arista 26-10-2013 03:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kizzy (Post 6450840)
That is trade, yes very good... What's your point?


So many call profit Evil
that is wrong.
Profit is Normal and Needed.


For Example Walmart Worldwide
make a large profit
and are still expanding.
That is Fair.

arista 26-10-2013 03:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fingers (Post 6450844)
So what is the cost of 50,000 units including Import Duty?

that you do not put public
But the profit must be £3 per Single Unit
after all tax etc


Thats the point profit is needed
for Traders to carry on trading.

fingers 26-10-2013 03:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by arista (Post 6450855)
that you do not put public
But the profit must be £3 per Single Unit
after all tax etc


Thats the point profit is needed
for Traders to carry on trading.

That is a non answer, one has to know the unit cost before applying a mark up.

£3 per unit as a profit at wholesale level is absurd unless the unit COST is higher than £30.

Kizzy 26-10-2013 03:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by arista (Post 6450851)
So many call profit Evil
that is wrong.
Profit is Normal and Needed.


For Example Walmart Worldwide
make a large profit
and are still expanding.
That is Fair.

Sorry but your clock example and walmart are not comparable.

fingers 26-10-2013 03:50 PM

I can source Radio Controlled clocks from China at prices ranging from 50 pence to £4 F.o.b

To put an excessive profit margin of £3 EACH would price them out of the market!

arista 26-10-2013 04:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fingers (Post 6450866)
That is a non answer, one has to know the unit cost before applying a mark up.

£3 per unit as a profit at wholesale level is absurd unless the unit COST is higher than £30.

Because you Buy a Block of 50,000
in one Deal I get a Massive Discount.


I can tell you
they sell up to £8 or £10 in stores

arista 26-10-2013 04:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fingers (Post 6450880)
I can source Radio Controlled clocks from China at prices ranging from 50 pence to £4 F.o.b

To put an excessive profit margin of £3 EACH would price them out of the market!



Lidl sell them at £4.99
but they buy them
in 500,000 blocks or more


My Model has a longer use by Alkaline battery
which means traders can sell over a longer time

arista 26-10-2013 04:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kizzy (Post 6450876)
Sorry but your clock example and walmart are not comparable.



Typical From You

fingers 26-10-2013 04:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by arista (Post 6450899)
Because you Buy a Block of 50,000
in one Deal I get a Massive Discount.


I can tell you
they sell up to £8 or £10 in stores

That's rubbish and you know it, you can buy a radio controlled alarm clock now in Lidl or Aldi (and consider THEIR buying power) for well under a Fiver.

fingers 26-10-2013 04:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by arista (Post 6450907)
Lidl sell them at £4.99
but they buy them
in 500,000 blocks or more


My Model has a longer use by Alkaline battery
which means traders can sell over a longer time

...and you know how many Lidl or Aldi buy, HOW?

arista 26-10-2013 04:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fingers (Post 6450911)
...and you know how many Lidl or Aldi buy, HOW?


They are examples
of how they make profits
on the same scale

arista 26-10-2013 04:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fingers (Post 6450910)
That's rubbish and you know it, you can buy a radio controlled alarm clock now in Lidl or Aldi (and consider THEIR buying power) for well under a Fiver.


No mine are with longer use by dates on the battery with them
My model import is not the same.

fingers 26-10-2013 04:14 PM

Sorry I can't be bothered with this.

Kizzy 26-10-2013 04:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by arista (Post 6450909)
Typical From You

You just said more or less the same thing arista... You buy a block of 50,000 walmart buy a block of 1,000,000... this changes everything, buying cost, import tax, transportation costs and the selling price.
Therefore not comparable.

thesheriff443 26-10-2013 05:07 PM

traders in turn will want a discount for buying in bulk, add transport cost's and you would struggle to make any profit.

arista 26-10-2013 05:07 PM

But Profit is Still Good
not just by my standard

arista 26-10-2013 05:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by thesheriff443 (Post 6451017)
traders in turn will want a discount for buying in bulk, add transport cost's and you would struggle to make any profit.


It was a few years ago.


The profit was made

fingers 26-10-2013 05:10 PM

Oh, I believe it! :joker::wavey:

Verbal 26-10-2013 05:11 PM

This is in serious debates because....

joeysteele 26-10-2013 05:11 PM

There isn't anything wrong at all with making profit and making profit is a good thing,indeed even a great thing.
It is however,particularly with excess profits,what is then done with that profit.


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