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IT's Most Outrageous Markups?

Posted by Cliff on from the insane-profit-margins dept.

masteritrit asks: "I have seen some really outrageous markups from IT companies. Cisco sells memory for a router I have for $1500 bucks and I bought it directly from Kingston for $56 bucks. I also had someone at storagetec accidentally reveal that their standard markup is 700%. What are some examples of this that others have seen and how do you feel about it?"

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  1. CompUSA Prices by xWeston · · Score: 5, Informative

    When i was a salesman at compusa (a few years back) we sold USB cables for $30+ when they were only $5 or so at cost. I've seen grocery stores selling them for much less than $30. The same thing went for parallel printer cables.

    However, there was one adapter (PS2->AT or serial->ps2, i forget which) that we charged ~$50 for when it was listed as $.50 cost in the computer... 1000% profit is not bad.