On 30 Jul, 07:29, Paul Matthews wrote:
GMM wrote:
Is this a 'marketing' approach? *Sell the tiles cheap (I presume, I
never stopped to look at their prices) and crank up the profit with
ridiculous costs for the other bits and pieces. *Caveat emptor, I
guess.

I think that is getting to be standard practice now - headline product cheap,
but the bits mount up - look at camera shops and flash cards as an example.
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Paul Matthews * * * * * * * * * * * * *


Twas ever thus really. We'd be naive to think otherwise.

But they are only playing to our perceptions of what is expensive and
what isn't. If they didn't make a decent profit in their business,
they wouldn't continue doing it. And for the very large
organisations, the profit that we help them to generate today carries
forward into good pension investments for those of us whose pensions
depend on the capital markets growing.

Matt