Dave Smith > wrote:
>Derek Lyons wrote:
>
>> Dave Smith > wrote:
>>
>> >I used to bake stuff for the bake sale
>> >at my son's school. Then I found out that the were selling the stuff for less than
>> >it cost me to make them. Nuts to that. All I was doing was providing someone with
>> >cheap baked goods and the school was getting the money.
>>
>> Um. That's the *point* of it.
>
>Sure, the point was for the school to get to money. They could have made a lot more if
>they had charged what the stuff was worth, or at least as much as it cost to make.
>
More likely they'd have made less, or at best about the same... And
had a whole of unsold baked goods at the end of the day. These aren't
gourmet shops.
D.
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-Resolved: To be more temperate in my postings.
Oct 5th, 2004 JDL
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