Quantity Discount

  

See: Volume Discount.

This term should read "high quantity discount," meaning that a low quantity purchase doesn't get you any cents off.

Buying a 40-pound bag of manure made by Congressmen for your yard? You'll pay about 20 bucks. Buying 50,000 bags for your farm? (Yes, you'll need a whole Congressional session to make it.) Well, then your volume quantity discount is massive. You'll pay about 2 bucks a bag. It won't even be delivered in a bag. It'll come in a truck, or series of trucks.

But the notion makes sense. If a seller is moving a ton of material to you versus just one unit, it should be logical that the buyer can command discounting. We're not giving you any **** about it, and neither should they.

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