Don Papp wrote: > I don't know if the same dynamic is applied to other assistive > products, but I'll always remember in my first job (part time working at a > local drug store while in junior high) seeing the *cost* price (ie what > the store buys it at) for a $99.00 (1980-something price) blood sugar > measurement device. > > Cost for that local store was NOT EVEN HALF of the retail price. > For something people use to help them stay alive. > > Ever since I have always been highly suspicious of the high > pricing on assistive or personal medical products. Did you and all the other employees work for free? Did the drug store pay no rent? Get free electricity? Free insurance coverage? Had no losses from theft or damage of merchandise? I hate to break it to you, but it's perfectly normal for retail prices to be twice or even more than wholesale. The store has to not only cover the costs of the things it purchased to sell, but all the other costs of doing business, and make some profit as well (in retail it's generally small). Had you only asked your boss about it you'd have been spared a lifetime of needless suspicion. :-) Steve -- http://www.stevebarr.com This message contains 100% my opinions. -- Subscription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org Please, *PLEASE* don't subscribe through a forward/expander/false domain
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