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just brew it! wrote:It is also moderately amusing to us old-timers who remember the early PC days, when parallel ports were fast and serial ports were slow...
dashbarron wrote:As a side note, this all started because my Dell monitor started having lines on it. I asked the friendly Dell technician if I could get an upgraded monitor and pay the difference...seeing as I thought giving them more money would be what they wanted -- apparently that's not possible.
sparkman wrote:If you pay X dollars for an item, and the item turns out to be broken during the warranty period, then the company hypothetically owes you X dollars for the broken item, although maybe/probably they have the right to pay you that debt in the form of a replacement item that isn't broken.
However, you decide you want to upgrade to a better item2 which costs X+Y dollars, and you are willing to pay the additional Y dollars. Why would the store care? Unless maybe item2 had very limited quantites/was sold out, the store benefits by agreeing and taking more of your dollars.
Or am I missing something?
just brew it! wrote:It is also moderately amusing to us old-timers who remember the early PC days, when parallel ports were fast and serial ports were slow...
sparkman wrote:Or am I missing something?
Madman wrote:just brew it! wrote:It is also moderately amusing to us old-timers who remember the early PC days, when parallel ports were fast and serial ports were slow...
Heck, you just called me an old-timer, and I'm not even 30...
Madman wrote:But yeah, I'm still dumbfounded when someone takes 80 pin cable, replaces it with few wires and makes it faster More wires = more signals = more bandwidth
just brew it! wrote:Madman wrote:just brew it! wrote:It is also moderately amusing to us old-timers who remember the early PC days, when parallel ports were fast and serial ports were slow...
Heck, you just called me an old-timer, and I'm not even 30...
I was thinking more in terms of the old-school LapLink utility. It could transfer files from one PC to another over the serial ports (really slow) or over the printer ports (quite fast for back then).
Scrotos wrote:Doom serial port network!
ludi wrote:The store brings items in at wholesale cost, and loses the wholesale cost in a direct exchange; but in an upsell, they have to credit the retail price and then lose the wholesale cost of the failed item plus or minus the difference in retail markup.
Jason181 wrote:What's missing here is that presumably, the store sends the defective item back to its supplier and recovers the wholesale cost.
Jason181 wrote:What's missing here is that presumably, the store sends the defective item back to its supplier and recovers the wholesale cost. There's no difference between a customer returning the defective item for cash and then purchasing the more expensive item with the cash received plus the additional retail cost of the new unit.
Case 1
A store stocks items "A" at a wholesale cost of $200 and a markup of 8% for a retail price of $216, and items "B" at a wholesale cost of $300 and a markup of 8% for a retail price of $324. A customer experiences a failure in an item "A".
a) Exact replacement: the customer receives an item "A". The store's immediate cost is the wholesale price of $200, to be reimbursed later as $200. The store loses $0 on the exchange.
b) Upsell: the customer receives a $216 retail price credit for item "A" and pays the retail price difference on item "B", or $108. The store's immediate cost is the wholesale price of item "B" less the price difference received, or $192, to be reimbursed later as $200. The store makes $8 on the exchange.
Case 2
A store stocks items "A" at a wholesale cost of $200 and a markup of 8% for a retail price of $216, and items "B" at a wholesale cost of $300 and a markup of 4% for a retail price of $312. A customer experiences a failure in an item "A".
a) Exact replacement: the customer receives an item "A". The store's immediate cost is the wholesale price of $200, to be reimbursed later as $200. The store loses $0 on the exchange.
b) Upsell: the customer receives a $216 retail price credit for item "A" and pays the retail price difference on item "B", or $96. The store's immediate cost is the wholesale price of item "B" less the price difference received, or $204, to be reimbursed later as $200. The store loses $4 on the exchange.