Inland

Oh, I think I heard something to that effect circulating in the wind... seems the big buyers said, "If your gonna do that, you don't need my 4 PALLET LOADS A MONTH TOO!! SO they changed their minds, I got the same notes from them, but when I got the first one, I had already been told of the second...

I have it on very good authority that a letter from my group, RAGS (retailers of art glass & supplies),

was instrumental in makingthem see how important the 3 tier system is to us all. Maybe Andy will postthe letter, and the response from Inland?

Ah, sure. YOU have the solution, don'tcha? And for a measly $19.95 you'll tell us all about how you have re-invented the entire world of economics and somehow supply and demand aren't really relevant because your merry band of "artisans" deserve to buy at some price YOU think the world ought to meet.

The only thing that is inevitable is you showing your ignorance.

It is, after all, a free market.

And, in addtion to those folks participating in a free market...the factors of design talent, craftsmanship, techniques, workbench shortcuts, salesmanship, customer service, and lots of other factors come to bear much more heavily than what Studio A pays for materials than what Studio B might pay. The market will shake the wheat from the chaff every time. Sort of like what happened with your toy boats, eh?

Try as you might, you aren't gonna alter the course of commerce with some half-baked marketing scheme. You can't steer the Queen Mary with a canoe paddle

How would you feel if the Chinese started selling them at 1/10th your price and flooded the market with them at every possible venue? Their materials are cheaper and labor is almost free. Would you still attempt to compete, or change direction and move on to something else?

What is also inevitable is you devolving into more of your self-serving bullshit at every opportunity.

Yeah, the "go look at our sales flyers for my response to your assertion" technique is SO much better.

Hee, hee.

Bzzzzzzt! Bullshit detector just went off.

If your toy boat business was so freaking wonderful, then why diversify off into something as alien as "wholesale" and "artisan communes"? That's not MAKING anything, just looking for another source of cash flow and a group of wannabes that you can sponge a bit off of.

I think you are floundering around, as rudderless as one of yer silly little boats. None of the economic theories you propound make a lick of sense.