Snooze wrote in message
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Wilson, sorry my friend, but I fail to see what was unethical in what she
did. Yes it's crummy that she took two weeks to reply back to you. But
let's
face it, special order items are pretty low on the priority list of things
a
store owner must worry about.

Admittedly it only takes 10 minutes to fax/email/call the supplier and ask
about the price of a custom liner, and she should have had the price ready
for you in a day or two. Let's pretend she was extremely agressive in her
attempt to find a cheaper supplier for a single order liner, how much
profit
would she have made? Compare that to the time and resources she spent
looking for that, rather then just calling her standard supplier and
asking
them for the price on it.

Given the standard retail markup is 2 times wholesale, if custom cut liner
is $32 (including shipping), retail would be about $64, given it's a niche
product in a specialty shop, the markups are higher, so $90 is reasonable.

Go to http://maps.yahoo.com and look at where justliners is located.
35507B Clearpond Road, Shawnee, OK 74801
I bet justliners doesn't have, the lease overhead that your local store
does.

When you go on vacation, and visit an amusement park, the t-shirts sold
there are often about $25 each. Old Navy sells t-shirts, 3 for $10. Do you
consider that unethical?

No, and I'll tell you why....I can find many stores that sell shirt (even
t-shirts) that sell for $25+ but I'll bet you can't find one place that
sells a 4x8 liner for $96. Unless of course you come to my hometown. I
don't mind paying the industry average even if it's high. Are you talking
t-shirts for $3.33? I don't recall seeing Six Flags selling plain
t-shirts....what I do see them is selling t-shirts with iron on type
advertisement of their business, that's like comparing apples to oranges.
All this lady did was make a call and didn't alter the product in any way.


The lesson to be learnt here is America is based on
a free market economy, if someone wants to sell liners for $100 they can,
you can buy it, or you can find someone else to sell you the same item for
less.

Sameer

I don't know....I've checked around found the price I paid is the low end of
average, I just find the price she quoted hard to digest. I consider jacking
up the price that high and preying on people that don't know better,
unethical. You can give examples all day long of businesses that border on
that gray area but I think her making what amounts to be a $50+ phone call
is just a bit out of line.

If you don't want to call it unethical that's fine....but I'm going to.

~Wilson~