I Sell Onions on the Internet

Re:I Sell Onions on the Internet by eightturn on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @01:50PM (#19731057)

no kidding, here was the first negotiation. I'm at the shed, in the front office with the farmer. We talk about whether this could work. We realize it might. I then bring up how to split money. From my side, it seemed fair to pay him more, so I suggested they keep 60% of profit, and I keep 40%. He nodded, and agreed. So we went with that. We changed it slightly over the years, but it still falls around that range. You wanna know funny thing? UPS makes the most on the entire transaction (as we roll in shipping costs on all our orders).

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Re:I Sell Onions on the Internet by barneygumble742 on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @02:09PM (#19731226)

> UPS makes the most on the entire transaction (as we roll in shipping costs on all our orders)

And this is what every company finds out eventually. Shipping is key and out of your control. Thus, Amazon starting its own fleet of air carriers.

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Re:I Sell Onions on the Internet by omarchowdhury on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @02:44PM (#19731533)

> And this is what every company finds out eventually.

I wouldn't say every company. Just the ones shipping products that are relatively heavy.

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Re:I Sell Onions on the Internet by nathancahill on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @09:23PM (#19734758)

Not even. Tried to start a small (friends and extended family) coffee roasting business. Most of the margin shipping a 12oz bag of coffee after all other costs is eaten by flat rate USPS shipping. Only made economic sense at a much greater scale, or for orders > 5lb.

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Re:I Sell Onions on the Internet by oh_sigh on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @02:59PM (#19731704)

Can you just stick a stamp on the onion and drop it in the mail? I think there is a potato shipping business that does this

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Re:I Sell Onions on the Internet by degenerate on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @04:00PM (#19732282)

Or even cheaper, just ship the seeds and tell the customer it's a pre-release alpha product, like the game companies do.

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Re:I Sell Onions on the Internet by greenie_beans on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @10:16PM (#19734993)

Yeah, what sort of USDA issues do you need to fulfill in order to ship food like this?

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Re:I Sell Onions on the Internet by zhte415 on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @02:32AM (#19736060)

The skin would fall off?

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Re:I Sell Onions on the Internet by perfmode on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @03:27PM (#19731992)

Concurrency!

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