Sentences with phrase «huge markup»

This is a LOT more than a «little white lie» invented to sell cheap agricultural products at huge markups... it is the biggest health scam ever perpetrated on the public!

True to form, several buyers of the flamethrower turned out to be scalpers, asking for huge markups for the limited - edition item.

He describes most of the policies and legislation in place as being highly irrational; for example, he explains how Brazil, one of the few efficient producers of bioethanol, faces huge markups in the U.S. and European Union - a consequence of prohibitive tariffs - while much less efficient corn ethanol - based technologies receive large government subsidies.

To market it, it hired experts in selling luxury brands with huge markups.

We sell directly to the consumer, so there's no middlemen in the process, and we don't do huge markups: Most of our products sell for between $ 50 and $ 500.

Unscrupulous brokers may charge huge markups when you buy and hit you with large markdowns when you sell.

A number of companies sell gold and silver at huge markups, well above the spot price for that metal.

By bringing honest, pure products directly to you our on website and eliminating overpriced middlemen such as department stores and duty free shops with huge markups, we obtain the best essential oils and finest natural ingredients from all over the world, providing superior quality products to our customers at a fraction of the price.

That's because there's a huge markup on caskets sold in funeral homes: A casket that wholesales for around $ 300 may be sold at a funeral home for upwards of $ 1,300.

At a when credit card rates of interest common in the mid teenagers, thats a huge markup.

The widget magnate might want a lower widget tax, (or none at all), or perhaps a higher tax for his rivals, or a large order of widgets from the government, (perhaps at a huge markup), or a widget monopoly in some conquered province, or free or cheap land to build widget factories, or not to be fined or punished if a factory poisons its surroundings, etc..

One New York City tabloid called it «ticket scalping» (when a purchaser of event tickets turns around and sells them at a huge markup).

A myriad of processed foods can be made with cheap vegetable oil, sugar and white flour and sold at a huge markup.

Other stores often do a huge markup on these products because they know you will buy them anyway thinking that they are on discount.

-LSB-...] Talk about a huge markup right?

Amazon has it for a huge markup through a third party.

Add in the cost of the data center and the fact that (as Foxfier noted) the user can download the file on multiple devices and it's pretty clear that Amazon isn't making a huge markup on the data.

Indies are not «efficient» because «Rent, utilities, and a brigade of book - reading workers aren't cheap, so the only way for bookstores to stay afloat is to sell items at a huge markup.»

A big contributor to these huge markups is the incredibly low cost of making the crusts.

Buying expensive items does not solve all these problems; in many cases, you risk paying a huge markup just for a brand name.

If you live in a modern city with an appropriate water treatment and delivery infrastructure, the water that comes out of your tap may be exactly the same as that in the bottles at the corner store, except at a huge markup in price.

When I was 11, I started my first business, which was smuggling chocolate bars into my boarding school dorm after Christmas holiday, and selling the chocolate off in small pieces to my classmates at a huge markup.

(The USB ports don't support external DVR storage, and the only e-SATA drive that works with TiVo sells at a huge markup.)

The good news is that Nintendo has committed to producing and shipping the SNES Classic throughout 2017, but if the new retro console is even close to as popular as the NES Classic, you can expect to see it on Amazon and eBay at a huge markup within hours of the console going on sale.