Goofyernmost wrote:It isn't your employees fault that you are not willing or able to charge today's prices that are the measure of what things are worth and they suffer low incomes to fulfill your lack of confidence in your own work or worth. I'm not buying the saintly posture.
Your confusing willing and able with desire. I am more then able to charge the $75/hr the other guys charge and I would be willing to do so IF I was greedy. But I desire to keep my customers happy and that makes them willing to come back and they desire my service over the others. I live comfortable and so I do not desire to over charge my customers and run them off.
Csaks wrote:By the way do you live in the Land Lost in Time? $.75 cent cans of pop in a vending machine, $9 to $11 wages for a skilled trade in this day and age?
Yep in this day and age (see pics I posted of $.75 sodas). People here RESPECT others and are not all about greed. Mechanics are willing to work for a fair wage of $11.00/hr when they only do oil changes and tire swaps. Mechanics that do engine rebuilds get paid more. People here understand that you don't need to have a mansion to be happy. Your home is maintained, your bills are paid on time, you have food and health and friends and family. People here save up for 5 years or more to take a trip to places like Disney, and that is on the low budget vacation scale. Some people save for 15 years to do the nicer vacations like 4 days at the resort with dining.
I am sorry that you see greed as okay and think that charging $1.25 for a soda is reasonable. It's that mind set that has the world in the mess it is in. The public set the prices, and if they would ever realize that, then prices will drop. Why is the cost of living lower here? Because the people told companies like Good Year that we will NOT put up with your greed. We will take our cars to someone we know and trust and that does not rip us off.
BTW a friend of mine owns a small hardware store. Ace hardware came to town. They lasted 6 months. Their prices were too high. My friend got the exact same products for lower cost. He didn't have to worry about nation wide advertisement, nation wide employees, high cost work mans comp, (nice thing about have small employee team), all he had to worry about was his store and personal life bills. he made enough to cover those things.
Csaks wrote:It's easy to tell if you are scamming or stealing this product in question.The product is a discount to a Florida resident. Are you a Florida resident? Yes or No. If yes, you get the deal, if not you are lying and therefore stealing and or scamming the system to get the discount. Pretty simple I'd say but then again some will say anything to justify their position against the big bad corperation that is making too much money and can afford to put up with a few folks that try to scam a discount out of them. Right?
Fair. So Bob being a Fl resident buys 4 tickets with the discount legit since he is in fact a FL resident. He then invites Jim and his wife down from New York, and So Bob, his wife, Jim and his wife all go to Disney with Bob's ticket's. ALL 100% legit. No one scammed anyone, no one lied, no one stole anything. Bob bought the tickets, they are his, he can do whit them what he wants, and he choose to give them to his out of state friend while they were visiting.
Csaks wrote:Like I said before there are plenty of Disney discounts out there and there is no need to lie about the place you live to get one. It's dishonest, plain and simple and if you can't see that then so be it, you never will.
No one said it wasn't dishonest. But it is a no harm, no foul situation. And there is absolutely NO HARM.
If you and others don''t see that, then you never will. Hard to see the real world living so high up on that cloud?
and I didn't need to pretend to be a Florida resident to do it.
