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> Maybe it was written in a way that priced by bag but somehow requested UNITS in a way that the total order volume in USD wasn't clear. If the price was liste
by irjustin 4y ago
> Maybe it was written in a way that priced by bag but somehow requested UNITS in a way that the total order volume in USD wasn't clear.
If the price was listed per bag as $6.83/bag (assuming 6 bags/case) and the PO said 6,000-units, that's the "best light" scenario for the OP I can come up. There are literally zero other numbers (no totals, no total dollar value) and the only difference is in the "units" which could be overlooked.
But what kind of PO doesn't have some sort of total which shows how much money the contract is expected to be worth.
I don't believe this scenario exists.
- golem14 4y agoI'm with you all the way – but I would still like to understand how they could get it so wrong.
- golem14 4y agoActually, I now know what seemed so weird to me. If they had planned to sell a bag for $x (41 or 41/case_size) retail, but now realized that was per case not per bag, this would have reduced their profitability by a lot or completely killed it. Since there is no mention of this in the story (it was only a bout the size of the order), I'm still believing that they thought their per-bag profit was unchanged by the now larger order (otherwise they would have mentioned it or immediately renegotiated the deal). I guess we'll never know unless we see the order details...