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Toofast wrote: The store did $3,500 of sales in one day when their sales target to be profitable is only $2,800 for the week.
But the important question here is how much did they make next week? If they made a huge amount of money all at once at the cost of emptying everyone's hobby budget and having a month of slow sales then they didn't really gain anything. All the would have done in that situation is compress a whole month of sales into a single day. In fact, if you assume that a lot of customers have a fairly constant hobby budget to spend they lost a lot of money since they had to give out more product for the same amount of money.
If they did the sale only once or twice a year, it would prevent people from just waiting for the sale to buy anything as most people don't have that kind of patience when it comes to plastic crack.
It would prevent people from waiting 100% of the time (as they would in a world of frequent sales, just ask Borders bookstores), but people would still wait. You might not be willing to wait six months for the next sale, but would you wait a month? Most people probably would, especially with major purchases like a whole army. So you'd get a spike in sales for a short time, but only at the cost of a period of slow sales before and after each spike.
Remember, we are talking about a company that allegedly destroys stock rather than offer any discount.
This is where it gets silly. Sure, discounting stock that would have sold anyway is not going to make more money for a company, but writing your inventory off rather than give your customers chance at grabbing a bargain, propping up your cash flow and generating some goodwill on an SKU that isn't selling? That's ludicrous.
How many would have grabbed a copy of Dreadfleet at 50% off who wouldn't have considered a purchase any other way, and would have felt more positive towards GW as a result of getting a bargain? But no, the unsold copies were allegedly recalled and destroyed.
We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't. - Frank Howard Clark
The wise man doubts often, and changes his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubts not; he knows all things but his own ignorance.
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monders wrote: Honestly I'm thinking of applying just to see if I can get an interview. Imagine telling your boss you're being considered for a CEO position?!
Might be useful just for getting a raise at your current job.
monders wrote: Honestly I'm thinking of applying just to see if I can get an interview. Imagine telling your boss you're being considered for a CEO position?!
Might be useful just for getting a raise at your current job.
Or they'll fire you.
Desubot wrote: Why isnt Slut Wars: The Sexpocalypse a real game dammit.
"It's easier to change the rules than to get good at the game."
If I can work from home, I will take the job. Don't think I could do and worse then the current CEO. From prison guard to CEO of a million dollar company, that's the American Dream.
Well I've applied, I don't even expect so much as a rejection by way of reply. I think they already have someone in mind anyway, they must do, right
In any case I've been meaning to write to them for a while, so now it's done. I honestly don't think they'll listen and will probably continue undermining themselves at every turn. I never thought I'd ever apply for a CEO job, so there's that I guess. I will never be as legendary as this guy though:
prplehippo wrote: What's that old phrase, something like "Idiots and smoke both rise"?
Then there is 'Rising to the level of your incompetence'.
Get a job, do very well in it.
Get promoted.
Do well in your new position.
Get promoted.
Do pretty well in your new, new position.
Get promoted.
Do okay in your new, new, new position.
Get promoted.
Kinda suck in your new, new, new, new position.
And. There. You. Stay.
And folks will forever wonder how you got into that position....
I know one company where the CEO got demoted to Chief of Engineering - but then he was also the majority stockholder, and realized that he hated being CEO.
The person that demoted him was him. (And I gather that he is a much happier person now.)
The Auld Grump
Kilkrazy wrote:When I was a young boy all my wargames were narratively based because I played with my toy soldiers and vehicles without the use of any rules.
The reason I bought rules and became a real wargamer was because I wanted a properly thought out structure to govern the action instead of just making things up as I went along.
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