Originally Posted by golftdibrad (Post 923890)

nerd.

Originally Posted by triple88a (Post 923904)

Those are cute. Planning on rallying them with the 60 profile tires?

Originally Posted by mgeoffriau (Post 923908)

That comment is funny until you come down here and drive on our shitty roads. It's worth noting that one of my 15" RPF1's has a bent lip.

Originally Posted by mgeoffriau (Post 923915)

I'm keeping these 15" RPF1's since I got such a stupid good deal on them...but if I had my druthers, I'd be going to 14x7" as well. I don't need massive brakes on the street, just good pads.

Originally Posted by Full_Tilt_Boogie (Post 923920)

Originally Posted by Joe Perez (Post 923868)

The following is not a sarcastic reply:

It depends on a number of different factors.

Some are obvious, such as what were your net revenues for the product line. If the total burdened cost to produce and sell one unit is $390, then obviously it's better to sell 10m at $599 than to sell 40m at $399.

Another would involve an analysis of one's market demographics relative to one's corporate strategy. I'd wager, for example, that Fendi probably sells fewer shoes in a year than JC Penny, and they probably captured less total revenue in doing so. But Fendi's brand is built upon an image of exclusivity, and so doing a lower volume of business than JC Penny is entirely appropriate for them.

Then you start to get into the really intriguing stuff which may sound entirely outlandish to those who have never had the pleasure of working within the infrastructure of a giant holding company. For instance, what was the margin on the device in question? Depending on who is doing the analysis, it is in fact sometimes "better" to sell a small number of units *AND* collect a small amount of revenue, provided that you maintain a very high margin in doing so. I know it sounds ludicrous, and from a macroeconomic point of view it is, but within Harris Broadcast, for instance, I've seen whole product lines get shitcanned because they were only operating at 10-15% margin, despite the fact that they were moving such enormous volumes of product that their net revenues far outstripped other departments with 1/10th the total receipts but 3x the gross margin.


Long story short: in business, especially at the corporate level, it's important to understand that sometimes there really ARE five lights, even if you can only see four of them from where you're standing.

Originally Posted by NA6C-Guy (Post 923891)

I hate Apple more because of the douchy group of people that buy up their products at the drop of a hat, over the fact that they make sub par quality junk, in my experience. I have owned 3 products from Apple, and all were of lower build quality and all failed far more quickly than similar products from other brands.