mm wrote:
On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 10:51:56 -0500, dpb wrote:

RickH wrote:
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it's just construction commodities, there is no reason for anyone to
have to pay a commission for materials.
If a sales person is working on commission as a part of their
compensation package, it is simply a part of the distributor labor
overhead and the total cost is unlikely to be significantly different
from a supplier with that business model than those with all-salary
compensation plans.

I don't disagree with anything you say, above or below.

It really has no bearing that I can see other than perhaps an unethical
sales person pushing a higher-priced product for the commission
advantage (which appears to be what the OP is concerned about). But,

I don't know about the OP, but I ask the same sort of questions he did
sometimes, to glean whether they are on commission. Sometimes i just
ask, "Should I look for you when I come back?"** and usually I only do
that wehn I've taken up a substantial amount of their time, and I just
want to think about it over night, and I want the clerk who waited on
me to get the commission, if commissions are involved.
....

If a sales person is on commission and doesn't let you know that firmly
in some manner, he won't be a sales person long...

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