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|    Bob La Londe to All    |
|    I Was Doing Simple Math Wrong    |
|    11 Dec 25 14:04:12    |
      From: none@none.com99              Had a customer call me asking for a source for some aluminum to make       some mold cooling plates. I knew he couldn't buy it for the same price       I do even from my vendors, and I told him who my vendors are. Coast and       Midwest. With a very strong preference for Coast personally, but       Midwest ships... when ever they are darned good and ready anyway.              I told him I would just throw a piece of bar on the saw and cut some for       him if he wanted. At a fair markup of course. I know I can sell the       aluminum I stock WAY less than any of the online vendors and insultingly       less than local metal yards and still make a good profit because I buy       multiple 12' pieces at a time. From a few hundred pounds to several       hundred pounds post of the time.              He told me what we wanted and I did the math several times, and I was       only paying a couple dollars less per piece than he found online. It       didn't make sense. I buy hundreds of pounds of 12 foot bars. Well, I       agreed to sell him what he needed in a flat rate box, match the price,       and sent him an invoice. Then I realized I was doing calculations based       on price per foot, and he wanted 4 inch long pieces (6 x 4 cut from 6       inch wide stock). Oops. LOL. I called him and said "DON'T PAY THAT       INVOICE." Now we are both much happier.              He paid the new invoice before I finished typing this post.                     --       Bob La Londe       CNC Molds N Stuff              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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