[CAUT] Parts Mark up - Institutional Variation

[Chris Solliday]

you haven't missed a thing. (I have as I didn't get email at Anaheim)
Showing discount is just a prop.
Chris
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Sturm" <fssturm at unm.edu>
To: "College and University Technicians" <caut at ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, June 13, 2008 12:04 PM
Subject: Re: [CAUT] Parts Mark up - Institutional Variation


> On Jun 12, 2008, at 10:36 AM, Chris Solliday wrote:
>
> > of the doubled
>
> Hi Chris,
> So you take cost (100), double it (200), subtract 40% of that (200 -
> 80), and end up with 120, or a 20% markup (simpler math). And then add
> freight. At least that's how I am interpreting what I have read. Or am
> I missing something?
>
> Regards,
> Fred Sturm
> University of New Mexico
> fssturm at unm.edu
>
>
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "David Skolnik" <davidskolnik at optonline.net>
> > To: "College and University Technicians" <caut at ptg.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 10:27 AM
> > Subject: Re: [CAUT] Parts Mark up - Institutional Variation
> >
> >
> >> CAUTS -
> >> It still fascinates me that our profession is possibly the only one
> >> that conducts these agonizing self-examinations in a public
> >> forum.  It seems to me that, to the extent that mark-up is a
> >> legitimately based cost, it could justifiably appear as such in any
> >> billing break-out.  On the other hand, to the extent that it is based
> >> upon control of supply and / or customer ignorance, it is arguably a
> >> subject for ethical pondering.  The institutional component is just
> >> another twist.  Either suppliers sell direct to end users or they
> >> don't.  Either they provided institutional / government discounts, or
> >> they don't.  If the purchasing secretary at the institution knows the
> >> wholesale price of parts, are they entitled to that discount when you
> >> work on their home piano?   I thought Tom's response stated the case
> >> concisely. Not as concisely as Chris, however.  Was that 40% of the
> >> original cost or of the doubled cost?
> >>
> >>> double wholesale less 40% then add shipping charge.
> >>> Chris Solliday
> >>
> >> David Skolnik
> >> Hastings on Hudson, NY
> >>
> >> At 12:02 PM 6/11/2008, you wrote:
> >>> Dear Fellow CAUT"S
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> I was wondering what  you do regarding  parts mark up
> >>> for the institutions you work for.  This has always
> >>> been a fuzzy area for me.   I'm not sure if we can
> >>> discuss this or not, but any input would be
> >>> appreciated.  Just want to be sure I'm doing the
> >>> equitable and ethical thing.
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>> steve
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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