Megladon13
join:2003-09-05
Minneapolis, MN
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Re: Its not a "scam"
Sadly this kind of crap happens all to often. The company i work for is a middle man for computer hardware & software, and we're the only company that sells this equipment in north america, and whats worse is we are the 2nd middle men, selling something we paid 400$ for, for well over 800$, guess what the origonal price was... Sad how places can get away with this crap. |
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ob10
join:2003-07-27
Scarborough, ON | Does any of these "company i work for" have a name?????
If they do, then let's have some names, otherwise........ |
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sorne guy
@66.84.x.x
| who needs names? that's how nearly all business works (if you are a middleman) you buy something, you mark it up to the highest sellable price, and sell it
you, as the customer can say either "i can do it cheaper myself" or "that sounds good"
i've seen people pay 100 bucks to have an 8 dollar modem replaced--i think that's highway robbery, but they see it as the price of doing business. the numbers are bigger, but it's the same thing |
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Combat Chuck
Too Many Cannibals
Premium
join:2001-11-29
Erie, PA
| I think what is worse is companies who know this and don't care.
I used to work a summer job as shipper/receiver in the parts department at a company who supplied equipment to General Motors. Someone at GM approached my company asking if we could obtain parts for other equipment, which we were willing to do. At one point I remember receiving a box from Delphi, which I opened, looked up who it was for and began to put a package together when I noticed that the address the parts had come from was remarkably similar to the address I was sending them to and that the parts had GM part numbers. I asked my boss if this was right and he replied that yes we were buying parts from a division of GM marking them up quite a bit and then sending them right back to what probably was the same factory; and that he had let them know that they could just buy them direct and save at least one day shipping time and a good deal of money but they didn't care and would rather do it this way.
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Yowzaaah
Ours Go To Eleven
join:2000-12-14
DamnFlat, OH
clubs:
| Chuck. You do realize that GM is not stupid don't you? What you were participating in is the "laundering" of artificial "sales" for the division you bought from. If GM had shipped its parts from one plant to another, even if different divisions, the pricing involved and sales amount would be suspect as these are not arms length transactions.
Insert your company, and bingo, the division selling to you gets a legitimate, unquestionable "sale" and the division buying the inflated priced goods from you is able to claim the full purchase price of the parts as a "cost" associated with manufacture of the finished product. Everybody wins...except the shareholders....who have inflated artificial sales in the 10-Qs and the consumer who pays more for a car than they had to because some of the component parts were artificially high.
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Combat Chuck
Too Many Cannibals
Premium
join:2001-11-29
Erie, PA
1 edit | I don't believe that was what was happening in this case as this was a small ticket item, under a dollar each, there were only 100 or so (some sort of cheap screwdriver like tool, with a tip that looked like it was designed to break off, almost like a small shim) and it only happened once or twice in the 6 months I worked there. We purchased other stuff for them from other companies (nothing not related to what we sold; usually parts for older equipment that they had previously purchased from other competitors) so it's not like our sole purpose was to sell them back their merchandise. My suspicion, based on the way we worked their orders and how specific GM was in general about how you could ship stuff to them, was that it was a pain in the butt for their maintenance department to open purchase orders and it was easier for them to just buy most of their stuff from us in massive orders because most of what they needed was from us anyway.
From my end it was a pain in the butt to deal with them, so much stuff I ended getting returned because the PO# wasn't written with a fine tip black sharpie in characters exactly 1.3 +/- 0.001 inch tall, and I did not include 4 copies of the packing slip in the following colours (peach, periwinkle, lt. blue and orange) printed on 19 lb. stock in an approved shipping container with an edge crush strength of at least 30psi but no more than 35 psi... and on and on and on.
But I guess I could be partly responsible for inflating Delphi's sales by ohhh say $40.
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