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spaman--:
OH boy! your looong posts remind me of someone, you feeling ok? Anyway I agree with what Doc said but the cost of cut and paste went up and I am not eating it, therefor you will have to scroll up.  ;D

Bonibelle:
Doc, you didn't piss me off...I was already mad!  All of that is OK, I would rather have a realistic cost included in the bill, just like my example of an entire neighborhood switching trash haulers...don't show me a fuel surcharge...I am getting fueled to death already. Businesses have the advantage of just passing that cost off on the consumers. So as consumers, we are taking the blunt of all of it. In the spa world for example, we are getting hit with the higher costs of production of the product and with the higher cost of delivery..you admitted that you aren't going to take a loss.....
I am hoping that drug costs go even higher....and higher...so that my drug stocks fly up....and my husband can afford to drive to his job .   ;)  My husband works in pharmaceuticals making seriously overpriced drugs...but that is usually fair game to complain about ;)

Bonibelle:
I guess to put it all in perspective..When I bought my spa, I ended up buying a tub that was well over my budget. so I decided to take the 9 mos. no interest and hope that I could come up with the money playing around in the stock market
I know that sounds nuts, but that was my plan...and my target stock came through, I am paying my tub off with the profits from my Conoco Phillips OIL Stock!!  so I guess my husband is right sometimes you get the bear, sometimes the bear gives you a fuel surcharge...or something like that :o

Dr. Spa™ Ret.:
WHOA! Of everything that was out there, pharmaceuticals is about as bad as it gets  ;D

Why are the same drugs 1/2 the cost in Mexico or Canada as in the US????

As for pharmaceutical stocks, look at ELN........ you heard NOTHING for me.

Seriously, a business isn't an inanimate object. It's people. People work for the business for pay, and it's people that own the business to make a living (we're talking smaller businesses here as opposed to , say, Ford). When my costs go up, the money either comes out of MY pocket, or the consumers pocket. My income comes directly from the profits of my company. If my costs go up $1 that dollar comes directly out of my pocket.

I remember when I was a kid and looked at bill my father had made up (he's a veterinarian). there were TONS of these little charges, toxic waste disposal, syringe disposal, taxes this and taxes that. blah blah blah,  etc. I asked hi why he didn't simply lump it all together into his main fee. His response was that while most people would accept that, he felt it better to explain to people what they were paying for and where their money was going. That there were all these mandatory governmental charges and he wasn't actually getting all their money :-)

Bonibelle:
Your Father was right, and I appreciate my vet doing the same thing. BUT I wouldn't like it if my vet charged me a fuel recovery fee because it was costing more to heat his office. That is what I mean about the cost of doing business...If your business is related to traveling to the customer to do it...then be reasonable. We figured that the fuel surcharge for the trash company in just the neighborhood next to me would be about $2200.00/3 mos. That is crazy, they couldn't be spending that much more in gas.

Isn't some of that deductable on your taxes?


Elan?...I almost ended up with Martha over a tip about  a year ago...

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