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[quote=Anonymous]The “trade discount” used to be more like retailing. A store gets a wholesale price and then charges you retail. Designers WERE the store. They still are, for some manufacturers. The manufacturers don’t deal with the end customer, they just have designers with accounts who buy wholesale and resell. So the designer isn’t “keeping” the trade discount. It’s just like Target charges me more for Tide than they buy it for. At this point though so many things are sold directly and there’s so much variation in the difference between how designers decide to do things that imo all that matters is that they’re transparent about it and that you’re okay with it. Realistically if OP wants the warehousing and delivery, they could ask if they can source their own tile but the designer might say no to the other services. It doesn’t really matter in the end if they do a retail markup on the product or charge more for the handling or whatever. [/quote]
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