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    Non profit doesn’t mean no profit.

    Non profits make enough profit to pay their employees, rent, and any other business needs, or they get money from other sources. They still need and make money to operate.

    For a company to succeed, there must be profit, or have an outside source of funding.

    You cannot pay rent, employees or other business expenses with revenue and no profit without going into debt.

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      Non profit means no profit. Salaries, rent, etc are not paid from profit.

      That is fundamentally what profit is, revenue less expenses. By definition, profit is money that does not have anywhere to go in a business, and so gets distributed to stake holders of the company.

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        This is why you’re wrong

        Profit is revenue minus cost of goods

        NET profit or net income is after expenses unrelated to cost of goods.

        If a widget costs you $100 to make and you sell it for $100 that’s $0 profit.

        Tack on all the other expenses to run a business and now you’re in debt.

        Profit is not NET profit.

        “Profit” is a general term referring to the money a company earns after subtracting the cost of goods sold from its revenue, while “net profit” is the final profit remaining after all expenses, including operating costs, taxes, and interest, are deducted from revenue, representing the company’s true bottom line profitability

        Edit: Below shows some guidelines, on how they can earn profit.

        NON PROFITS can earn profit, they’re just restrictions on it.

        Yes, nonprofits in the United States can earn a profit, but they must reinvest it back into the organization. Nonprofits are tax-exempt and are formed to serve the public, so they can’t distribute profits to individuals. How nonprofits make money

        Donations and fundraising: Nonprofits raise money through donations and fundraising events

        Earned income: Nonprofits generate income through activities related to their mission, such as:

        Selling merchandise

        Charging fees for services Renting out space Selling food

        How nonprofits use their profits

        Program growth: Nonprofits use profits to grow their programs, hire staff, and upgrade technology Sustainability: Nonprofits use profits to build reserves for long-term sustainability Fundraising: Nonprofits use profits to attract more support through fundraising efforts

        Restrictions on nonprofit profits

        >Nonprofits can't distribute profits to individuals
        >Nonprofits must reinvest all surplus funds back into the organization
        >Nonprofits must ensure that their revenue is directly related to their mission 
        
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          So a service company that only pays salaries has 100% profit?

          This is splitting hairs and if all the people arguing about this took an actual class in uni a out this they would know that.

          Gross profit typically includes cost of goods sold, COGS doesn’t have an explicit legal definition, it’s up to the business to decide what they include, they can include employee salaries or not, this is called abortion costing, a business which puts salaries, rent utilities, etc, under abortion cost would have a gross profit equal to their net profit.

          When dealing with accounting, you can call things whatever you want, net profit isn’t something that has a legal definition.

          For example, I just decided that my business doesn’t follow your definition of profit, and instead defines profit as only money I find in my pockets. There isn’t a legal definition of how I need to define profit, so it’s just as valid as all the other definitions.

          And regardless of all that, I don’t understand how anything you said proves me wrong. Profit is net profit, just the same as profit is gross profit, you can put an arbitrary boundary at any point in a financial metric and it makes sense to do so, but it doesn’t change what the word profit means. But the claims that ‘if you don’t profit you have to go in debt’ is just silly and only makes since if you cherry pick a very narrow definition of profit that is used as one part of a general financial metric for a business.

          A company that has revenue - all expenses = 0 does not need to be in debt, this is also how a non profit will look, 1 million in revenue, 500k in general expenses, 500k reinvestment into the company final result 0 dollars left over. The effective meaning and understanding of profit for practical purposes and lay people (not book keepers within a company that needs more refined and specific metrics) is the amount of money that gets distributed to stakeholders after a company has covered its expenses.

          Your block about non profits is exactly my point. A non profit does not pay out the left over money to stakeholders but people who work for a non profit still make money.

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          Now work in EBITDA and realize that not even net profit is really net profit. Understanding EBITDA really was a big lightbulb for me.

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      Heh, “revenue is not profit”.

      Non-profits are specifically not allowed to have revenue in excess of expenses. If they take in too much money, the excess has to be put back in for operational expenses in the future, an endowment or something like that.

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        (In the Netherlands) Non profits are allowed to make profit, they just need to pay tax above a certain amount of net profit. The thing that makes them “non-profit” is that they are prohibited to pay out that profit. Hence there is no incentive for (excessive) profit.

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        Yes, nonprofits in the United States can earn a profit, but they must reinvest it back into the organization. Nonprofits are tax-exempt and are formed to serve the public, so they can’t distribute profits to individuals. How nonprofits make money

        Donations and fundraising: Nonprofits raise money through donations and fundraising events

        Earned income: Nonprofits generate income through activities related to their mission, such as:

        Selling merchandise

        Charging fees for services Renting out space Selling food

        How nonprofits use their profits Program growth: Nonprofits use profits to grow their programs, hire staff, and upgrade technology Sustainability: Nonprofits use profits to build reserves for long-term sustainability Fundraising: Nonprofits use profits to attract more support through fundraising efforts

        Restrictions on nonprofit profits

        Nonprofits can’t distribute profits to individuals Nonprofits must reinvest all surplus funds back into the organization Nonprofits must ensure that their revenue is directly related to their mission

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          Copying a bunch of unsourced text at someone without context is a great way to get them to not bother reading it. Why don’t you type the point you were hoping to make?