Cheap CDR-king Offices

Again another wishful thinking post. CDR-king, the largest electronics and computer accessory store in the Philippines is cornering the market because they are acquiring generic electronics and computer accessories from China. These are goods that have their production life ended and have been sold off, or found a way to keep producing sans the IP overheads. So these generic brands produced at 1/3 to 1/10 the cost of their former, branded selves.

CDR-king is now importing cheap quality (crappy quality) office furniture. I saw them selling cubicle pannels at $90 a corner. If you add it all up, the cheap quality station costs about $250. A complete workstation costs about $340 each after buying around 200 worth of stations. But just comparing the $250 CDRking furniture to the cheap and old Cubicle units you can find in any office, the quality is a very far gap.

Maybe I would use the CDR-king offices to furnish a public school... but given that our Clients throw their old furniture at us (the cost of getting rid of it is very high) it would be better if we refurbished these old pieces and furnish a school with these.
  • One it can count against our taxes to make this donation,
  • second it helps our inventory,
  • third it is a great way to utilize "dead" productivity hours since we are project based,
  • fourth its political capital in the community we donate to,
  • fifth if we do this to outdated furniture, it will Plunge the value hopefully causing clients who have such furniture around at about 6+ years old to sell and get new furniture from us,
  • sixth If we partner with the right people, like our clients, we can share in the tax benefits and have a better relationship.
Building offices, particularly ones for productive ventures means jobs and a small measure of fulfillment. Its better than building characters because this gets used and when it has imperfections, i can work on them, which further increases productivity and value.



Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Technically I'm done with the project

Gurps Mysteries

330mg of Caffeine will do the trick