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> when the prices/etc don't line up Actually, that does have me confused as to how this could happen. Was the coffee quoted per case or per bag? And when the
by nebulous1 4y ago
> when the prices/etc don't line up
Actually, that does have me confused as to how this could happen. Was the coffee quoted per case or per bag? And when the order came in per "unit", how did they not notice that price was 6x higher than it should have been?
- acchow 4y agoI think gp comment is saying that the coffee roaster believed they were selling it at $x/bag. But the acquirer thought they were paying $x/case, which looked very very cheap so they ordered 6000 units of it.
- 55555 4y agoHonestly pretty amazing that this issue could be unnoticed and grow to this degree. I guess that’s the power of wishful thinking. Obv the distributor isn’t putting much thought into this, but the small business owner certainly did.
- conductr 4y agoThe word unit alone begs the question, what is a unit? I wondered myself reading it the first time in their article, before I knew it was going to be a land mine of their situation. I never read how they got “grifted”. This is just very poor business management, except they managed to sell it all online with this story which is impressive.