Not exact matches
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.
To market it, it hired experts
in selling luxury brands with
huge markups.
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.
But when you see retailers, both
in brick and mortar stores and online, discounting books by 25 % or so on a regular basis, you know the
markup is
huge.
Buying expensive items does not solve all these problems;
in many cases, you risk paying a
huge markup just for a brand name.
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.