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- From: fluffy bunny <the.fluffy.bunny@juno.com>
- To: nafex@egroups.com
- Subject: Re: [nafex] Plant shipping costs (complaint)
- Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 19:31:11 -0500
Chris:
As an FYI to you and others...
One of the "mailorder yourself to millions" schemes used by many
people(including myself at times)has been to offer a product at actual
acquisition cost and tack on a hefty postage and handling in fee. In
effect you are deriving gall of your revenue form the "handling fee.
There are several advantages to this, such as simplified accounting, as a
handling fee is a service it is not normally subject to taxes(that is a
broad sweeping statement that varies from state to state, county to
county, and city to city).
>From a marketing standpoint companies often feel they can gain a
competitive advantage by advertising lower prices and recouping the price
differential on the shipping.
Less obvious reasons are it does not show up in a relevant way on
inflation indexes and dozens of other national statistics.
I guess another way to say this is many businesses use handling fees as
an intended basis of revenue.
Wishing you the best,
the rabbit
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[nafex] Plant shipping costs (complaint),
Christopher Mauchline, 12/06/2000
- Re: [nafex] Plant shipping costs (complaint), jhecksel, 12/08/2000
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
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Re: [nafex] Plant shipping costs (complaint),
fluffy bunny, 12/07/2000
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Re: [nafex] Plant shipping costs,
john bunker, 12/18/2000
- Re: [nafex] Plant shipping costs, jim, 12/18/2000
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[nafex] Re: Plant shipping costs,
Christopher Mauchline, 12/20/2000
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Re: [nafex] Re: Plant shipping costs,
Claude Sweet, 12/20/2000
- Re: [nafex] Re: Plant shipping costs, jim, 12/20/2000
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Re: [nafex] Re: Plant shipping costs,
Claude Sweet, 12/20/2000
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Re: [nafex] Plant shipping costs,
john bunker, 12/18/2000
- Re: [nafex] Plant shipping costs (complaint), fluffy bunny, 12/08/2000
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RE: [nafex] Plant shipping costs (complaint),
Erdman, Jim, 12/08/2000
- [nafex] Re: Plant shipping costs (complaint), edforest55, 12/07/2000
- RE: [nafex] Plant shipping costs (complaint), Ed Mashburn, 12/07/2000
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