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km987654



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Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2012 9:32 am    Post subject:

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Must be a reason they didnt.

They would have to pay staff to work on shipping and taking orders, so they wouldnt make anything selling them at $1 each unless it was the entire load and you collect them yourself.


OK lets try $5. That's $300,000. I mean the tubes had already been made so there has been a cost.
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Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2012 9:51 am    Post subject:

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Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2012 12:48 pm    Post subject:

Yes, but at $1 or even $5 each the cost to staff the exercise would still cause it to run at a loss.
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Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2012 9:01 pm    Post subject:

CasetheCorvetteman wrote:
Yes, but at $1 or even $5 each the cost to staff the exercise would still cause it to run at a loss.


I don't thinks that's right. There would be a margin. The real problem is likely the tax system that allows a complete right off if they dump them and that's easy and probably more vuluable to VDC.
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Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2012 11:48 pm    Post subject:

Really am quite sure they looked into it, im not aware of any place that employs people at $1 an hr...
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Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2012 12:00 am    Post subject:

Legally anyways.
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Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2012 12:09 am    Post subject:

It's ok guys....really....it's not like options won't be available later on. Can get into a nice LCOS for a fraction of what these things originally costs. Chill out people!!
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Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2012 12:14 am    Post subject:

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It's ok guys....really....it's not like options won't be available later on. Can get into a nice LCOS for a fraction of what these things originally costs. Chill out people!!


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Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2012 12:29 am    Post subject:

CasetheCorvetteman wrote:
Really am quite sure they looked into it, im not aware of any place that employs people at $1 an hr...


Who said anything about paying people $1 per hour??

I would have thought if they were $1 ea that lots would go in a short time. Must be slower in QLD.

Even if it took a month to move them all at $5ea you could pay 3people full time just to deal with this and have a nice profit left over what's more likely though is the people processing these sales would be processing other sales so even at $1 there would be a margin.
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Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2012 12:37 am    Post subject:

stridsvognen wrote:
digitalayon wrote:
It's ok guys....really....it's not like options won't be available later on. Can get into a nice LCOS for a fraction of what these things originally costs. Chill out people!!


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+1 !!!!

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Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2012 1:34 am    Post subject:

Nashou66 wrote:
stridsvognen wrote:
digitalayon wrote:
It's ok guys....really....it's not like options won't be available later on. Can get into a nice LCOS for a fraction of what these things originally costs. Chill out people!!


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Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2012 7:02 am    Post subject:

[quote="km987654"]
CasetheCorvetteman wrote:

Even if it took a month to move them all at $5ea you could pay 3people full time just to deal with this and have a nice profit left over what's more likely though is the people processing these sales would be processing other sales so even at $1 there would be a margin.


Tell me you dont expect 3 people can pack and post 60,000 tubes at $5 a tube on full time wages and still expect it to be worth the expenditure... Laughing


Do you expect they would move that many in a month? Not even in a year id think!!
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Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2012 7:10 am    Post subject:

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km987654 wrote:
CasetheCorvetteman wrote:

Even if it took a month to move them all at $5ea you could pay 3people full time just to deal with this and have a nice profit left over what's more likely though is the people processing these sales would be processing other sales so even at $1 there would be a margin.


Tell me you dont expect 3 people can pack and post 60,000 tubes at $5 a tube on full time wages and still expect it to be worth the expenditure... Laughing


Do you expect they would move that many in a month? Not even in a year id think!!


No problem. They sure could. Even if it took 2months it still works but I reckon you could do it in one. You know tubes may well be boxed on the production line.
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Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2012 11:10 am    Post subject:

Why is it youre not in business?

Where is this sudden incredible amount of demand for rear pro tubes going to come from that you reckon theyd sell 60,000 in just 30 days? 2,000 tubes a day, 250 tubes sold every hour of a working day... 3 workers packing and shipping 41 tubes every minute... 13 tubes each person, each minute, 8 hrs a day for 30 days...

A tube packed and shipped every 1.4 seconds... If it could be done so fast, which i dont believe it can, where will they go? Who will purchase them all?

Still viable???
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Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2012 11:21 am    Post subject:

CasetheCorvetteman wrote:
Why is it youre not in business?

Where is this sudden incredible amount of demand for rear pro tubes going to come from that you reckon theyd sell 60,000 in just 30 days? 2,000 tubes a day, 250 tubes sold every hour of a working day... 3 workers packing and shipping 41 tubes every minute... 13 tubes each person, each minute, 8 hrs a day for 30 days...

A tube packed and shipped every 1.4 seconds... If it could be done so fast, which i dont believe it can, where will they go? Who will purchase them all?

Still viable???


This is why they should have offered it up for sale first at discounted prices then the remaining lot.

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Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2012 10:46 pm    Post subject:

Maybe, but at $5 a tube it would be a big loss due to costs involved, filling a bin costs hardly anything. And this is my point, you dont make $300,000 profit from $300,000 in sales, especially when staffing costs have been completely ignored, and staffing abilities have been over estimated by more than 500 times, which would allow them a tube every 12 minutes. 40 tubes on average a day, still assuming there will be customers to buy them.

1,500 days to sell 60,000 tubes employing 3 staff. Abit over 4 yrs later, the staff required have cost you about $576,000 assuming they will work for $16 an hour.

Still worth a look?
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Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 3:41 am    Post subject:

CasetheCorvetteman wrote:
Maybe, but at $5 a tube it would be a big loss due to costs involved, filling a bin costs hardly anything. And this is my point, you dont make $300,000 profit from $300,000 in sales, especially when staffing costs have been completely ignored, and staffing abilities have been over estimated by more than 500 times, which would allow them a tube every 12 minutes. 40 tubes on average a day, still assuming there will be customers to buy them.

1,500 days to sell 60,000 tubes employing 3 staff. Abit over 4 yrs later, the staff required have cost you about $576,000 assuming they will work for $16 an hour.

Still worth a look?


Yep. I've had to blow out old stock before and I can honestly say something is better than nothing.
My point being it would have been better to make something off it than pay for the bin.

Like I said better to have sold the whole thing to somebody else in one big lot and let them deal with it.

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Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 9:03 am    Post subject:

Oh for sure, if someone will take the lot in one hit, but if they wont, and the alternative is simular to what ive laid out above, give me the recycle bin any day before grossing $300,000 at a net of -$275,000 , give or take 100,000 ill pass either way.

In this country they pay you to take recyclables away ( id be amazed if they dont over there ), so options considered as they are, give me the bin Wink
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Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 9:25 am    Post subject:

CasetheCorvetteman wrote:
Oh for sure, if someone will take the lot in one hit, but if they wont, and the alternative is simular to what ive laid out above, give me the recycle bin any day before grossing $300,000 at a net of -$275,000 , give or take 100,000 ill pass either way.

In this country they pay you to take recyclables away ( id be amazed if they dont over there ), so options considered as they are, give me the bin Wink


No here you pay for the bin, especially with leaded glass.

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Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 9:28 am    Post subject:

AnalogRocks wrote:
CasetheCorvetteman wrote:
Oh for sure, if someone will take the lot in one hit, but if they wont, and the alternative is simular to what ive laid out above, give me the recycle bin any day before grossing $300,000 at a net of -$275,000 , give or take 100,000 ill pass either way.

In this country they pay you to take recyclables away ( id be amazed if they dont over there ), so options considered as they are, give me the bin Wink


No here you pay for the bin, especially with leaded glass.


In Canada or your US bin?

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