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Financial mismanagement within large companies/organisations is appalling.
One of our customers buys replacement dvd/rw for a product from their trade supplier, at around £150 a time.(their supplier buys it from the manufacturer and doubles it, and they've already more than doubled it to sell to them.)
We buy the same unit at less than £20 a unit from an online supplier because we buy them by the hundred, mostly to refurb their gear.
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Originally Posted by Psychosplodge
yikes, does it really spiral out of control like that?
Yes.
A bog standard off the shelf internal dvd/rw. I'm betting they're probably doing it ex-VAT as well, so it'll be 20% higher in reality.
I think this illustrates the point:
[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-19681437[/url]
wow, just wow, I cant even....wow
Yup. It is quite quite staggering. On a smaller note, the company I work for, we cannot buy our own tea/coffee we have to use the corporate accounts and despite us buying very large amounts it still works out more expensive then popping down to the local supermarket...
That's a whole new level of ridiculous.
That doesn't even make any sense, why would a company do this?Quote:
Originally Posted by Wolfshade
Just remember what the bloke from starbucks said infront of the parlimentary committee.
- We aren't profitable in the uk for the last 15 years.
- So why continue to do business here?
Also they have to buy the beans from Starbucks Swiss at a 20% mark up and pay Starbucks Neatherlands royalty for using the brand etc.
All totally legal, and similar are done by Amazon, Google etc.
[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20305250[/url]
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