Exactly!
This is at the core of what groups buys mean actually. If you person wants 10 thousand products at their finger tips all the time at which moments notice, prepare to pay a premium for those services. This is well known and the world standard. I doubt if anyone argues against this logic. Just the margins…
Here is how group buys work, for those interested.
A person scouts out DIRECT sources for a product, or carious products. In this thread lets say rs @Taiwan_Luthiers
He finds the sources of eggs, lamb (in taiwan this is goat, not lamb/mutton), pumpkins, mangoes or whatever he wishes to offer his time up for community benefit. He calls 50 different companies, farmers, suppliers or whatever and asks directly, without creating a big long backstory that companies dont have time, nor energy, to listen to each phone call.
He will ask them:
MOQ
Price based on his predicted groups orders
Delivery dates they already have to his area
And payment terms
Once all these basic facts are known, make apost to the group. Be it here, facebook line or board. Mention these facts and lead times. It is obviously more fair to pay te organizer first as they assume all the burden. Full refund if supplier has issues. Thats standard operating procedure!
So check this out. If you buy from super inflated markets such as PX mart 711 etc expect their commision to be 50% ish. Plus shelving fees reugistration fees and all that bullshit they gouge suppliers with. If you buy from more “fair trade aligned morals” type of places like Nong Hway (farmers association supernarkets), local markets etc. Expect no fees and early roughly 20% commision because they deal with less corparate douche bags and/or middlemen.
In the sense the group order person volunteering is the middle man. In small groups, their benefit is mostly the wholesale price of 20~40% cheaper than.retail. thatz everyones benefit. Big groups thy can buy cheaper due to scale and if say its 50% off retail its often normal(and fair!) To pay 40% and the organizer gets 10% off the top as it becomes time consuming when scaled up.
One needs to ACTUALLY understand, as the sourcing person, companies are really fucking busy. And in taiwan most dont even want to make sales ironically. This is because they want brass tacks. They dont give 2 fucks about your buisnes your familys health problems your kids school schedules etc. Dont annoy them with such dumb shit. Times , prices, product types and quantities. Thats it. Dont talk their ears off, it is counter productive. Thats what friend and family are for. Or social media. Not business.
This stuff is actually quite simple and done everywhere already. So it should be EXTREMELY easy to do the most basic of organizing amongst a group and save the quarter to a half of some of your grocery bill. The fact most people are too lazy explains exactly why food is being inflated for mostly little reason, unchecked.
Group buys are excellent. The more people that join, the better the buying power. There are so many people here from taipei that should be an incredibly easy start!
Even if its not cor money, knowing the source us infinitely better than say that wholesale scam costco runs.
Ps. Sorry the rains have messed up my phone. Things like i/o, s/z and others are interchanging and cant be corrected. Read the meaning, not the typos, im not an english teacher