Originally Posted by
Glen Monaghan
The customer is paying for your nice, expensive machines, but some people find that their customers are tighter with their pocketbooks. If you can't charge your customers enough for your services to make a $25-30,000 machine affordable, then you might opt for a $5-7,000, but less nice, one. Or, even if you are able to charge enough to make that more expensive machine affordable, some might choose instead to take the $20,000+ difference as profit this year. Or maybe it's just a bit of optimism, masochism, and/or anxiety about your financial future that sways one toward the cheaper alternative...
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