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If a company runs at cost it is not profitable though? In any case, if you are a merchant you usually buy lower than what a single individual could buy for and
by tyfon 9y ago
If a company runs at cost it is not profitable though?
In any case, if you are a merchant you usually buy lower than what a single individual could buy for and sell it for what the customer is willing to pay so in the end the customer will have the same or lower price than if they had to negotiate with the producer directly so I don't think that is a rip off.
- randyrand 9y agoMany Ebay stores are operated this way. Many are sole proprietorships with themselves as the single employee. All profit goes to them but they still often barely have enough to scrape by in day to day life. Whether its called "profit" or "the cost of paying your sole employee a living wage" is mainly a semantic difference. Are these companies operating "at-cost", or earning a profit?