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LabRatGDI · 07-12-2007, 11:09 AM

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Originally Posted by MrJerry

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Originally Posted by LabRatGDI

Nobody's forcing anybody to buy sub-par beans at all. If people choose to do it, that has nothing to do with Fair Trade. It has everything to do with a fool and his money.

My point is that I see no reason to pay $1.45 for $1.09 beans.

So don't, and that's my point.

Jmurman · 07-12-2007, 03:59 PM

damn...one hell of a mark up, from $1.45 to $10.00 per pound.

LabRatGDI · 07-12-2007, 06:24 PM

Yeah, ain't it amazing, he doesn't have any problem with that "fair trade."

ulster · 07-12-2007, 07:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Jmurman

damn...one hell of a mark up, from $1.45 to $10.00 per pound.

I worked in the coffee industry for years in Canada's largest privately owned coffee roaster. I can easily say that in the costs alone of running a roaster (let alone buying the roaster and cooling drums....and packaging machines....), this mark-up doesn't equate to a huge amount of profit for the roaster as it might appear off hand.

Everybody needs to make a buck - the energy company, the growers, brokers, roasters, packing supply company, shippers........it goes on and on.

07-12-2007, 06:24 PM	#23
LabRatGDI Herf God Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Willowick, OH Posts: 36,008	Yeah, ain't it amazing, he doesn't have any problem with that "fair trade." __________________ I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. -- Benjamin Franklin

07-12-2007, 03:59 PM	#22
Jmurman Club Member Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: East of West Coast Posts: 2,927	damn...one hell of a mark up, from $1.45 to $10.00 per pound.