Today I had to photocopy a lot of documents and at 5 cents a page it came out to over $40. I was actually with another person as well and for some reason he decided to ask the store clerk why it wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t 3 cents a copy instead as it seems like he was trying to drive the price down for me. His thought was that you can buy hundreds of paper for like a few dollars and so it shouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t cost that much.<\/p>\n
It was an individually owned shop as the person running the photocopier happened to own the business. He first mentioned that he needs to make a living and light heartedly mentioned how he had to give 1 cent to the photocopy people and about another for the paper and toner. Therefore, if he charged 3 cent he mentioned that his profit would only be 1 cent. <\/p>\n
The person I was with still didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really buy that though and even on the way out he thought it was highway robbery to pay over $40 for that. It was kind of funny though. While there probably would have been cheaper places, I was in a semi-rush unfortunately and at the same time I always look at things from the businesses perspective too.<\/p>\n
Otherwise that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s like me saying how expensive can it really be for say a person to tutor you to learn something as all they are doing is talking right? In general though, I think from a business end a 30% profit margin is usually reasonable. Of course you can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really use that for everything, but that is the figure that I am personally contempt with when I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m the consumer.<\/p>\n
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