I want to know how they do it seeing as I know how I did it
@Jackalyn (7559)
Oxford, England
August 20, 2018 10:16am CST
I do well with surveys now I figured out the ones that want me and usually exchange them for Amazon vouchers. My daughter is planning my Grandson's birthday party and yet again wants 30 kids at it. All went well last year and she is proving a brilliant party planner. I use the vouchers to get stuff for the party on Amazon. I start at what has free delivery and is 1p. What I want to know though, is how they do it? I could not charge 1p and give free delivery. I assume the idea is to hook people in so they then buy bigger items. I did seeing as I bought my grandson's birthday present. This year we seem to have gone for an animal theme and most of the take-home stuff is tiny animals that go on a plant put. We also got butterflies on sticks and butterfly stickers. However, I also went nuts and started on the Christmas tree presents. My family has an insane thing of giving no big presents but silly gifts on a tree. On a small budget, it helps but I do worry how these things are so cheap. It is the same in shops when you buy cheap clothing. My latest find was a dress reduced from £18 to £2. I do sometimes wonder about the mark up on things. I also worry about the markdown.
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@mythociate (21437)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
20 Aug 18
I guess the idea is that 'faithful customers are worth more than the profits on any one item.'
I don't know their exact 'profit-margin' (or whatever big economist-words I could think of 
I was going to add an 'Economics major' to my 'English major' in college---but then I decided I'd better drop out instead), but I remember when I was working at a movie theater.
I remember how I could usually have a bag-or-two of popcorn FREE on my coffee-break. But I remember that that's one of the reasons they can charge so much for snacks-&-drinks at the concession-stand. I remember that each bag (which they usually charge 5-ot-7 dollars for) actually only costs less than a cent to make! But they HAVE to charge so-many-hundreds-of-times the cost because 1) the film & equipment the theater has to buy are HUGELY expensive (the ticket-prices mostly-just pay for the air-conditioning) & 2) the money for workers' salaries has got to come from SOMEWHERE! 
I was going to add an 'Economics major' to my 'English major' in college---but then I decided I'd better drop out instead), but I remember when I was working at a movie theater.
I remember how I could usually have a bag-or-two of popcorn FREE on my coffee-break. But I remember that that's one of the reasons they can charge so much for snacks-&-drinks at the concession-stand. I remember that each bag (which they usually charge 5-ot-7 dollars for) actually only costs less than a cent to make! But they HAVE to charge so-many-hundreds-of-times the cost because 1) the film & equipment the theater has to buy are HUGELY expensive (the ticket-prices mostly-just pay for the air-conditioning) & 2) the money for workers' salaries has got to come from SOMEWHERE! 
@mythociate (21437)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
21 Aug 18
@stringer321 Oh, the popcorn's NOT free for customers. But people get "the munchies" when they watch movies with a lot of action---they're not necessarily 'hungry,' but they'll almost-instinctively gobble-up whatever snacks are within their reach!
What is it Sebastian, I'm arranging matches....LOL
@stringer321 (5643)
• Kiryat Ata, Israel
22 Aug 18
@mythociate In my country, at the movie theatre, they sell the popcorn very expensive, like gold, I mean, how much weight of popcorn do we buy even in the biggest package ? and it costs more than 20 NIS,
the seeds of dry corn cost a lot less than that. The profit is huge, plus, it is not allowed to make popcorn at the rest of the mall. So other stores can't help with the huge price of the popcorn, food is not allowed to get in...That's not fair.
@stringer321 (5643)
• Kiryat Ata, Israel
20 Aug 18
I don't think the air conditioning is so expensive, do the tickets sells barely cover the air conditioning cost ?
The free popcorn is good, it makes the customers very thirsty so they will buy the expensive drink.
@stringer321 (5643)
• Kiryat Ata, Israel
20 Aug 18
Presents and gifts are usually not for free eventually. I guess that if everyone takes advantage of it, the gifts will not be free anymore.
@Jackalyn (7559)
• Oxford, England
23 Aug 18
I just wonder who is on the bottom of the production chain and if they are fairly paid. Nothing is free, but such a small price does make me wonder.
@Jackalyn (7559)
• Oxford, England
23 Aug 18
There is a fair bit. What you have to watch is whether they then add a huge amount for posting. Usually, I can find plenty below 50p. I think I currently have 33 packets arriving as I ordered a lot of little animals for party bags. I found that you have to order each item separately or they add postage.
