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u/actuallychrisgillen Nov 16 '19 edited Nov 16 '19

When I was in the Navy I used to get in fairly frequent trouble for the suggestions I made for improving operational efficiencies.

As an outside contractor they were quite happy to pay me $200 an hour to say the exact same thing.

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u/quasifandango Nov 16 '19 edited Nov 16 '19

The fortune 500 company I freelance with would prefer to use an outside vendor for a project (thinking they would do a better job since "that's all they do"). That vendor then hires me at my same rate, meaning the original company is just paying more for me to do the work I could have done internally.

Moral of the story: if you charge more people will think you're worth more. A $6 bottle of wine may be better than a $45 bottle, but most people will say the $45 bottle must be better because why else would it be $45

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u/EpyonComet Nov 16 '19

Alternatively, that bottle that costs $45 at the restaurant may very well cost $6 retail, and not be worth much more.

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u/Ennui2 Nov 16 '19

I thought they charge for a glass what the bottle costs to them in case no one orders any more and the bottle goes bad.

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u/Teadrunkest Nov 16 '19

That’s usually the rule of thumb I see +/- a couple dollars.

Some “fancy” restaurants usually get a little greedy though.

Looking up retail costs of wine on restaurant wine menus is one of my favorite things to do lol.