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Old 14th May 2021, 04:59 PM
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It sort of presents an intriguing possibility, if the discount rises as the order to Ilford gets larger as follows:

Ian buys several thousand rolls of say Ilford's best seller. Let's assume that is HP5+. He then negotiates a deal with some courier delivery firm.

He is a one item seller with no overheads other than a very large set of chest freezers/refrigerators so his picking and packing for customers is very straightforward.

In that situation could he make a small profit and still undercut other retailers? It might be possible but it would require finding and tying-up a large amount of money in the first place and being sure that his price would be both low enough but still profitable for him to contemplate it?

It seems to me that as a one item seller in this scenario it still represents some real risks for what may be a small return.

Those risks being obtaining a large loan and servicing the debt and even larger still, the risk that customers would still not beat a path to his door in sufficient numbers to make it worthwhile

Mike
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