Dewey Survival Machete

[bluerob]

son of a b#%*h ^^^^^^ thats a bit of a mark up!!!!!

Mate, i spent a few years working in and with retail. I can assure you that 100% mark up is the minimum that must be achieved. Rent, wages, workers comp (if you employ staff), insurance (if you burn down), tax and a few other issues that must be addressed BEFORE you order the Porsche or Ferrari. Jewelry is usually 1000% - I'm serious and not trying to be funny. Google "The Truth about the diamond industry."

I've seen quite a few businesses go down, simply because the owners were dumb (didn't know what customer service means), greedy, try to run 2 books and get busted or because they generally don't give a s**t, get hit with WH&S fine or a combination of each.

Then I've seen businesses get shafted through non payment (subbies, doing trade work). There's a rumor that a certain construction company purposely under quoted a major project, knowing they'd never finish the contract. Assets got moved into wives & kids names. Guess what happened?? Directors say "gee, sorry, we didn't forecast blah, blah, blah" You can find these people in flash resorts.

The average person has woken up to the fact that the massive xmas etc sales are bulls**t - they are getting rid of stock that the stock purchaser must've been bribed to buy in the 1st instance.

Lucky we aren't getting shafted on factory ammo these days

[tom604]

you cant chainsaw blackberry's or small axe them (with out getting scratched up anyway) one of the places i shoot on has a few berry bushes and a machete would work a treat to get to the bunnys that i shoot that stay just inside the bush better than the stick i use at the moment

Ya should just wait for em to come out a bit more mate, saves having to cut em out to get to em, that's what I do anyway. (fooked if I'm going into blackberry bushes with the Tiger and Browns around here.

ive tried that but the little blighters go further in and i have short arms red bellies in my area

[Chronos]

Sounds like you need a mini foxie.

Chronos

[Lorgar]

Mate, i spent a few years working in and with retail. I can assure you that 100% mark up is the minimum that must be achieved.

Bit of side information... I was a chef back in the day and recall our mark up on food costs was 300%.

The bar wasn't my thing but that's even more.

[Warrigul]

you cant chainsaw blackberry's or small axe them (with out getting scratched up anyway) one of the places i shoot on has a few berry bushes and a machete would work a treat to get to the bunnys that i shoot that stay just inside the bush better than the stick i use at the moment

my oath you can chainsaw blackberries, a chainsaw works a treat to cut an escape path through blackberries and light scrub.

[Gwion]

Mate, i spent a few years working in and with retail. I can assure you that 100% mark up is the minimum that must be achieved.

Bit of side information... I was a chef back in the day and recall our mark up on food costs was 300%.

The bar wasn't my thing but that's even more.

The basics of costing a menu. Price of ingredients X3. Ingredients + overheads + profit. Quite often the over heads kick into the profit margin as well.

[dustin]

Seems like booze is about 3-4 times as well.