Bad Bad Vendor
Everyone who owns a business that sells product (as opposed to a service) is beholden to their vendors, especially when their product sells. So imagine our dismay when one of our highest volume vendors announces that one of my somewhat decent selling products goes from a cost of $50 to a cost of $125. So, we’d have to up the retail price appropriately, with no change in the product.
At first, you could say - sounds reasonable. Manufacturing costs went up, so the price went up. Well, that’s not what happened. Here is what happened. Originally the product was only meant to be given away (understand me here, the product was only intended to free) if you ordered $500 worth of the related items - that don’t sell nearly as well. Well, the bigger item became so popular, that other customers of theirs (as well as ourselves) started ordering it and it alone. So, a salesman (not sure who and not very relevant) pulled a price out of thin air and starting selling the item for $50. The price stayed the same for well over a year, too, but now the price is $125 instead.
But, the good side of this is, is that if you have a good salesperson - like we do, then you can work out something. While we are being charged the $125 for each piece, she is going to send us a third one for free, which makes the hit a little less noticeable or at least lets us increment it on the website.
But, bad bad vendor, for not controlling your salespeople well enough to establish prices on every product, even if you they are not intended to be sold individually. They have to know someone is going to ask for that piece alone.
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