That has to do with regional COGS.
That's part of it. A very big part if your including taxes.
In any case it is a price difference.
Also its not just different regions that have variations, you have variations within a region as my post pointed out, or as you can tell by driving around a bit looking at prices, or looking up prices on any of several internet sites.
So the prices really are not all that similar, but if they where, it wouldn't indicate much. Whatever the pricing pattern you have someone can use it to claim your doing something they think is wrong, and their claim is probably nonsense, or at least totally unsupported -
" If your price is higher than your competitors than you're "gouging", if it's lower your "engaging in unfair competition", if its exactly the same "you're colluding"."
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My "profits" aren't my savings, but my after tax income.
You need to change your thinking... the old adage is "pay yourself first".
Saving and investing is a good idea, and I invest a good chunk of my income.
But that doesn't change the fact that my overall "profits" in this context or analogy, or the closest analogue to them, is my after tax income, not my investments.
If I "changed my thinking" about that than I would be changing it to assume something that is incorrect. |
