Re: Pharaoh\'s Club Paulson chips - Pre-Order Thread
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good points. so what im gathering then is that Paulson and Trademark views this group buy as consumers rather than retailers. so they will gouge us as much as they possibly can, and therefore give us zero breaks on price. im sure that trademark realizes the frenzy that we are creating with this and is thus capitalizing on our excitment. understandable, any smart businessman would do the same. but like i said, at this volume, i cant justify that price in my mind, especially when we are going directly to the manufacturer (albeit via trademark).
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I wanted to address the price issue that Duma brought up...
(here I deleted about 10 bulleted, valid points explaining why the price is this "high"...... compared to Chipco, my first group buy that was .95 each, etc...deleted because it is really so simple):
The simple fact is that we are thinking that .90 price is 'high' because our current point of view is "we pay $1 per chip for good chips." You have to be thinking of these Paulsons as "$1.50 per chip." or at the very least, "$1.25 per chip." Then it makes complete sense. At that price, we are getting 25% off, or more. I was happy as a lark to get that much off of dinky stuff at 5star last Christmas...
Facts:
Paulsons are more expensive retail price.
They don't offer as good wholesale prices as other chip manufacturers.
They're less flexible.
We MUST buy via Trademark. (or a retail vendor and pay more (Dice702). We MUST go through a retail vendor to do the individual purchases. The other sales option is that I buy them personally, and sell them personally. I sure don't want to do that, and the group buy quantity would suffer because of the factor of not allowing credit card purchases.
If we avoided a middle man (vendor) our price would still be .90 or more! Off the top of my head: Wholesale price (at least .75-.80), PayPal/escrow fees (.03-.05), art fees (.02-.03), shaped inlay fees (Trademark say this might happen), shipping (.03-.04), and any interest I may incur if I fronted all the money. And any other costs I can’t think of right now. It adds up quickly.
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