Re: [OM][OT] Lens Cleaning Solutions Getting OT

[Winsor Crosby]

>  >FYI, it costs them more the pack and ship than for the contents.  And I
> > would venture a guess that the margin on the cost of production is several
> > hundred percent.
> > Bruce Appelbaum
> > Yorktown Heights, New York
> Forget water - someone did the sums here and worked out that the value of
> the contents of a 2 litre bottle of coke was around one sixth of the true
> cost of the PET bottle itself. Hmmmm. No wonder he local agent is called
> "Coca Cola Bottlers Pty. Ltd." - they're in the bottle retailing business!
> Andrew
Sort of like the old soviet joke about the guy taking a wheelbarrow 
of trash out of the plant every night and the guard diligently 
rummaging through the trash overlooking the fact that it was the 
wheelbarrow that was being stolen.
Winsor
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Winsor Crosby
Long Beach, California, USA
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