| Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | Teup  | | Posted: | Jan 19, 2022 08:08 | | Subject: | Re: Typical profit margins | | Viewed: | 68 times | | Topic: | Announce | |
| In Announce, SylvainLS writes:
| | In Announce, Teup writes:
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as I think that roughly gets
you an hourly pay of something in between €15-€25 which is an acceptable "career"
for people.
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For the business or for the employee/worker? (Employer costs?)
With or without social security / unemployement / retirement?
Before or after taxes?
Just to say that what Teup says is about Nederlands and in some neighbouring
EU countries (but not all EU countries) and it’s difficultly comparable to other
countries, like the USA (different systems).
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Yeah, true... it's a very rough estimate But let's just say at least
it's unlikely to find 'gold mines' in your own area that give you
new sets at such great prices that you can sit down and relax, because probably
your fellow countrymen will have brought down the prices of those parts until
their value is just enough to make it worthwhile.
I did actually find some great 4x-5x part out value set that I bought 25 of...
that was like 5 years ago... and the parts are all still around in my shop, to
remind me what a "great" deal I had  It seems to have been a worldwide overproduced/underdemanded
set. So even when you get a great profit rate, economics will pull you back towards
the 2x region
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| Author: | peregrinator | | Posted: | Jan 19, 2022 07:20 | | Subject: | Re: Typical profit margins | | Viewed: | 80 times | | Topic: | Announce | |
| In Announce, Teup writes:
| | I think it depends on where you live whether you can source used stock at an
acceptable price, though. Here it's pretty hard. I get the impression that
in America it's common for people to not really be aware of what they have
and just dump it for cheap, while in the Netherlands everyone thinks they're
suddenly an expert or somehow have hidden gems in their attic that the world
was waiting for, even though they don't know anything about Lego. The same
way all Americans know "don't eat yellow snow", all Dutch people know "don't
sell your Lego cheap"
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You can get good deals on occasion but it means watching sales like a hawk, and
many people don't have time for that.
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| Author: | StickyBrickit | | Posted: | Jan 19, 2022 07:09 | | Subject: | Re: Typical profit margins | | Viewed: | 57 times | | Topic: | Announce | |
| In Announce, SylvainLS writes:
| | In Announce, Teup writes:
| | […]
as I think that roughly gets
you an hourly pay of something in between €15-€25 which is an acceptable "career"
for people.
|
For the business or for the employee/worker? (Employer costs?)
With or without social security / unemployement / retirement?
Before or after taxes?
Just to say that what Teup says is about Nederlands and in some neighbouring
EU countries (but not all EU countries) and it’s difficultly comparable to other
countries, like the USA (different systems).
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True....in the UK £15 an hour is actually considered a good wage but we have
socialised health care, *some* level of state pension etc. $15 an hour in the
US would be considered pretty bad though from what I understand...
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Jan 19, 2022 06:56 | | Subject: | Re: Typical profit margins | | Viewed: | 68 times | | Topic: | Announce | |
| In Announce, Stuart9 writes:
| | Sourcing suitable Lego at a good price here is not easy either, nearly everyone
expects a high price, can’t blame them but it makes it difficult if you want
to resell.
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It’s a known fact that LEGO has a better return than gold!
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Jan 19, 2022 06:55 | | Subject: | Re: Typical profit margins | | Viewed: | 65 times | | Topic: | Announce | |
| In Announce, Teup writes:
| | […]
as I think that roughly gets
you an hourly pay of something in between €15-€25 which is an acceptable "career"
for people.
|
For the business or for the employee/worker? (Employer costs?)
With or without social security / unemployement / retirement?
Before or after taxes?
Just to say that what Teup says is about Nederlands and in some neighbouring
EU countries (but not all EU countries) and it’s difficultly comparable to other
countries, like the USA (different systems).
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