a moral question

[louie12]

i own a supply house, i deal with a lot of contractors, somtimes they bring some customers who want to pay fot thier own chandliers or supplies, and they ask for a 5% or 10% commission, so what i do i raise the price on the customer 5 or 10% and give them the commission since they brought me a customer, is ther anything wrong with that?

thankyou

 

[mercygate]

i own a supply house, i deal with a lot of contractors, somtimes they bring some customers who want to pay fot thier own chandliers or supplies, and they ask for a 5% or 10% commission, so what i do i raise the price on the customer 5 or 10% and give them the commission since they brought me a customer, is ther anything wrong with that?

thankyou

If you have separate prices for trade and retail customers, then the customer should pay retail. You could turn a “finder’s fee” over the contractor. I don’t know the going rate in your field. 10% sounds high. 5% would be more reasonable – depending on the differential between the wholesale and retail price.

 

[Yerusalyim]

What would you charge had these customers come in on their own?

 

[Caesar517]

As long as you are honest about the prce you are charging the customer (no “hidden fees”), I don’t think there is anything wrong with it. You have the right to charge whatever you want, just as they have the right to buy from someone else.

I recall a parable where a man hired workers for his land. At the start of the day, he offered a man one day’s wages to work for that day. Later on, he offered another man one day’s wages to work for the rest of that day, etc. They approached him about it at the end of the day and he told them that they had all eagerly agreed to work for a set amount of time for a set amount of money. Even though the man payed them at different rates, there was nothing wrong with what he did.

 

[Texas_Roofer]

It would seem to be backwards as a business practice but not immoral

Usually a chandliers which cost the business $500 is marked to about 150% so it is offered for $750. If a contarctor is paid a 10% commission for the sale it usually is customer pays the $750, store expenses (pays) $75 as a sales commssion, store keeps $675 which is a 35% gross margin. The logic is simple as contractors can produce repeat buying which reduces advertising cost, reduces the need for sales(markdowns), increases the cash flow, these advantages often leave more profit off of many 35% markup sales than occur from occasional 50% markup sales.

 

[joseph_virgen]

it must be a day for parables. the Nazarene has the answer.

“There was a rich man whose manager was accused of wasting his possessions. So he called him in and asked hiim, 'What is this I hear about you? Give an account of your management, because you cannot be manager any longer”
“The manager said to himself,’ What shall I do? My master is taking away my job. I’m not strong enough to dig, and I’m ashamed to beg- I know what I’ll do so that, when i lose my job here, people will welcome me into their houses.”
“So he called in each one of his masters debtors. He asked the first,'how much do you owe my master?”
"Eight hundred gallons of olive oil,’ he replied.
“The manager told him,'Take your bill, sit down quickly, and make it four hundred.”
Then he asked the second, ‘And how much do you owe?’
"A thousand bushels of wheat,’ he replied.
“He told him, 'Take your bill and make it eight hundred.”

“The master commended the DISHONEST manager because he had acted shrewdly. For the people of THIS world are more shrewd in the dealing with THEIR own kind than are the PEOPLE of the LIGHT. I tell you, use worldly wealth to gain friends for yourself, so that when it is gone, you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings.”
" Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much. So if you have not been trustworthy in handling wordly wealth, who will trust you with TRUE riches? And if you have not been trustworthy with someone else’s property, who will give you property of your own?’
“No servant can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both GOD and money.”

that pretty much tells it all.

 

[Texas_Roofer]

…"There was a rich man whose manager was accused of wasting his possessions… .

I am not sure this applies? Translated today the story would say there was a manager who over charged his customers (is that your reason?). One day he was dissmissed for these actions. He then quickly reworked the accounts of the business dismissing the overcharges. The moral is rather than be as this man who had to lose stolen money do see the value of people, rather see the value of people at all times. This steward broke the commandment of love thy neighbor as thy self, instead he cheated thy neighbor as thy customer, only once he lost every customer did he see the value of the commandment.

Hop that helps

 

[joseph_virgen]

go back to start, do not pass go and do not pick up 200 dollars.

this particular parable is seldom used, as it has the ability to hit home with just about everyone who is looking out to make a buck and a half. and it that half of buck that cost them. they are not content with what is fair. they decide to push the button and try to put one over on honest men and women. and they succeed, but only momentarity, and certainly not with what is truly important. entrance into paradise.

the first part of the parable is the story luke 16:1-9, the second part is the explalination luke 16:10-13

i hope that helps.