01-11-2018, 01:56 AM
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Intermediate Rocketeer
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Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Farm burg along Missouri River
Posts: 54
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This and the comments are worth the time to read,
http://www.uavexpertnews.com/2017/0...iants-flounder/
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Merchants Are Suffering
Merchants have gotten the short end of the stick as consumer trends and shopping habits change, and manufacturers squeeze out distributors
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Each industry is different, but in the US most customers simply do not understand (or care) how businesses work. Most are unaware that retail hobby and electronics stores operate on profits that have been driven to less than a 20% gross margin. What this means is that a typical beginner model airplane that might sell at a store for $99.99, cost the store $79.99. But to really get the full picture you have to do all of the math. For instance that model aircraft product that sells for $99.99 at the store (and online) has the following cost associated with it.
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later, Forrest "Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality." -- Nikola Tesla, Modern Mechanics and Inventions, July, 1934
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