There must be a Publisher, somewhere, who would like to publish the money spinner of the 21st Century, translated into 75 languages.
The Working Title for the Book is "The Guiness Book of Ripoffs". As we are all generous people, both Genders, I suggest we seed this claim with a few nuggets, to get the trade interested.
Have a look at the things you buy, especially the ones you buy regularly. Get out the electronic calculator whenever you have a minute to spare; it doesn't take long.
Here is an example. I know USA still works in pounds, but it is sometimes so much easier to work in metric. I have milligrams, 1000 to the gram; 1000 grams to the kilogram; 1000 kg to the ton or tonne (No, this NOT like Dom and Domme!!). The Long ton is about 40 lbs more than a metric ton, a short ton is about 200 lbs less.
My example is the razor blade. My Good Mornings begin with Gillette.
This generation of blades is called Sensor Mach 3. The advertising campaign is one of the crassest I have ever seen. That is by the way.
In my country, these beauties retail at about $ 1.00 per piece. Of our 100 cents, the Government takes 12 cents in Value Added Tax. The retailer (this is the discounter price) keeps about 20 cents. So, Gillette gets about 68 cents per piece.
The piece consists of an el cheapo plastic moulding, a litle strip of PTFE, a little strip of soft rubber, and Ah!! the business part, the stainless steel cutting strips. The first three items cost so little, we can ignore them. The stainless strips weigh somewhat more than 50 milligrams, 100 milligrams, tops. They are probably made from wire, rolled flat, honed, covered with a molecular layer of PTFE and mounted. All this is done by machine, by the billion units.
So, Gillette sells us 100 milligrams stainless steel for about 68 cents. That is,
$ 0.68 x (1000 / 100) x 1000 x 1000 or $ 6 800 000 per ton of stainless steel.
to grams to kilos to tons
Is that Added Value, or what? A nice little earner, indeed.
Pure Gold is about $ 9 000 000 per ton.
Don't get me started on pharmaceuticals. Or cosmetics.
The Working Title for the Book is "The Guiness Book of Ripoffs". As we are all generous people, both Genders, I suggest we seed this claim with a few nuggets, to get the trade interested.
Have a look at the things you buy, especially the ones you buy regularly. Get out the electronic calculator whenever you have a minute to spare; it doesn't take long.
Here is an example. I know USA still works in pounds, but it is sometimes so much easier to work in metric. I have milligrams, 1000 to the gram; 1000 grams to the kilogram; 1000 kg to the ton or tonne (No, this NOT like Dom and Domme!!). The Long ton is about 40 lbs more than a metric ton, a short ton is about 200 lbs less.
My example is the razor blade. My Good Mornings begin with Gillette.
This generation of blades is called Sensor Mach 3. The advertising campaign is one of the crassest I have ever seen. That is by the way.
In my country, these beauties retail at about $ 1.00 per piece. Of our 100 cents, the Government takes 12 cents in Value Added Tax. The retailer (this is the discounter price) keeps about 20 cents. So, Gillette gets about 68 cents per piece.
The piece consists of an el cheapo plastic moulding, a litle strip of PTFE, a little strip of soft rubber, and Ah!! the business part, the stainless steel cutting strips. The first three items cost so little, we can ignore them. The stainless strips weigh somewhat more than 50 milligrams, 100 milligrams, tops. They are probably made from wire, rolled flat, honed, covered with a molecular layer of PTFE and mounted. All this is done by machine, by the billion units.
So, Gillette sells us 100 milligrams stainless steel for about 68 cents. That is,
$ 0.68 x (1000 / 100) x 1000 x 1000 or $ 6 800 000 per ton of stainless steel.
to grams to kilos to tons
Is that Added Value, or what? A nice little earner, indeed.
Pure Gold is about $ 9 000 000 per ton.
Don't get me started on pharmaceuticals. Or cosmetics.
