3 million wreaths for 30 million USD, is that correct? That's still a dubious arrangement, but a sane price and far from the unbounded greed and depravity of some usually large and public corporations.
3 million wreaths for 30 million USD, is that correct? That's still a dubious arrangement, but a sane price and far from the unbounded greed and depravity of some usually large and public corporations.
Well it's plain corruption, but yeah it's not like the $10,000 toilet seat cover,[0] $7,622 coffee maker,[1] or $37 screws[2]
[0] https://www.military.com/defensetech/2018/07/11/air-force-no...
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/1984/09/20/us/military-price-on-coff...
[2] https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-07-30-vw-18804-...
The cost isn't for the item, it's for the paperwork attesting to the acquisition and delivery of the item.
Whether one screw or 500 screws are ordered, it still takes an hour or two to fill out the forms and submit the invoice.
Think of $37 as the "fuck off" price, except the buyer has no one else to buy from because the seller is the only one meeting FARS/CMMC regulations
If the price is sane, I wonder if there is a competitor looking to break into the action, hence the appearance of a piece "asking questions". A great method is to break up the original operation, insert a company that has no compunction about charging higher prices in the name of good process, and clean up.
I just went on Amazon and the wreaths there are like $20-$50. It makes sense that a bulk purchase should be less, so $10 does feel reasonable though I am no expert.
Its plainly using a charity as a mechanism to funnel work to the founder's for-profit business, so that the 501c3 is, in fact, organized and operated for the benefit of a private interest, which isn’t merely “dubious”.