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| From | -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.sys.mac.advocacy |
| Subject | Re: Marion's "free" Samsung Galaxy A32-5G |
| Date | 2025-10-09 15:23 -0400 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <10c923i$1v2o0$5@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | (5 earlier) <mkd03aF8oauU1@mid.individual.net> <10c1b1r$i883$1@dont-email.me> <mkk1frFea3lU1@mid.individual.net> <10c3akn$ucum$1@dont-email.me> <10c85rk$2kiid$1@dont-email.me> |
On 10/9/25 07:21, Tom Elam wrote: > On 10/7/2025 11:12 AM, -hh wrote: >> On 10/7/25 04:31, David B. wrote: >>> On 06/10/2025 22:07, Tom Elam wrote: >>>> ... >>>> Nothing sad about the need to update my Windows laptop, That was a 6 >>>> figure project completed to the clients satisfaction. >>> >>> Did you do work for someone and generate payment of $100,000+? >> >> That's what he'd like to believe, isn't it? >> >> Of course, "six digits" could also have been #1,234.56 >> >> Plus even if it was $100K, over what period of time? It is far less >> impressive if it was for a project which spanned over 3-4 years. >> >> Similarly, with what non-labor expenses: when it includes travel, >> such as to inspect manufacturing sites, it can easily run $5K a pop or >> more for international; just five such trips consumes 25% of a $100K >> budget. >> >> And so on. Point is that when someone cherry-picks their bravado >> claims to resist the temptation to fill in their missing gaps, since >> those gaps invariably exist to filled in by readers with assumptions, >> not facts. >> >> >>>> My desktop display is a 3 year old Dell 27" 3840x2160 HD. The Apple >>>> display no doubt looks better, but a 2-3x the price. >>> >>> Apologies. I've no doubt your 27 inch screen is also great for >>> viewing images. >> >> Probably most 27" 4K screens today will do a fine job; the Devil in >> the Details probably falls to other aspects of a third party display >> beyond jut the image, such as if Apple's keyboard controls work >> correctly for brightness & sound, if there's integrated speakers, >> camera, etc. > > > They were all over $100k. Yes, they all spanned several years, ... David, here's a good example of how there's more details beyond the original cherrypicked brags. FYI, Tommy invariably whines when I paramaterize from his claims, but to illustrate, his above statement is suggesting that the only times that there were any consultant contract of $100K or more was when it was multi-year. Thus, taking his "over $100K" claim as $120K and 3 years for "several" claim, then what appears to be likely typical is in the ballpark of: $120K/3 = $40K/year gross... ...but note a couple of things. > ... the > wheels of justice move slowly. There was very limited travel for these > three, all short domestic trips. I do not have detailed P&L by project, > but the business earned a 92% gross margin over its lifetime. Where "these three" appears to be stating that there's only been three large projects: TE: "But two legal cases went over $100k. Another was about $80k." ...but didn't he just claimed that the multi-years were "all over $100K"? Well, I guess in Tommy Math that $80K is more than $100K. /s In any event, these numbers are his self-employed level gross before overhead expenses, such as Social Security & Medicare. For a self-employed, the business has to pay the same as employee, which is 7.65% ... and that's nearly all of his "92% gross margin" claim. Before the employee's SS/Med, above $40K SWAG drops to an employee gross of no more than ~$37K/year just from this one gross-to-net adjustment. There's others possible too, such as employer contributions to a 401(k). In any event, with the rest being smaller than apparently $80K over his "2002-2023" twenty two year working period, which at his present age of 79, covers working years from age 56 to age 77, and all together he humble-bragged "The total revenue was well over $1 million." Since he would have bragged $2M had it exceeded $2M, this has bracketed the total possible between $1M and $1.9999M. Taking off 8% for his employer overhead and dividing by 22 years, the lower & upper limits on his claim are $41.8K to $83.6K ... and YMMV on if that is good or bad, but with the context that national median for PhD holders is around $100K/yr, even the $83K for the $1.9999M best case doesn't seem like he's been crushing it. > That > includes international trips to Europe (1), Canada (1), Australia (1) > and Latin America (3). Yes, a few international travel expenses were > paid direct by the customer and are not included in the costs. (8% - 7.65%) * $1M = $3500; for $2M = $7000. The claimed 8% total overhead budget doesn't appear to have enough bananas to cover more than one or two such trips, let alone five. -hh
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Marion's "free" Samsung Galaxy A32-5G Tom Elam <thomas.e.elam@gmail.com> - 2025-10-02 09:59 -0400
Re: Marion's "free" Samsung Galaxy A32-5G Marion <marionf@fact.com> - 2025-10-03 01:19 +0000
Re: Marion's "free" Samsung Galaxy A32-5G Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2025-10-02 18:48 -0700
Re: Marion's "free" Samsung Galaxy A32-5G Tom Elam <thomas.e.elam@gmail.com> - 2025-10-03 18:23 -0400
Re: Marion's "free" Samsung Galaxy A32-5G Tom Elam <thomas.e.elam@gmail.com> - 2025-10-03 18:09 -0400
Re: Marion's "free" Samsung Galaxy A32-5G "David B." <BD@hotmail.co.uk> - 2025-10-03 23:48 +0100
Re: Marion's "free" Samsung Galaxy A32-5G Tom Elam <thomas.e.elam@gmail.com> - 2025-10-04 07:32 -0400
Re: Marion's "free" Samsung Galaxy A32-5G "David B." <BD@hotmail.co.uk> - 2025-10-04 17:25 +0100
Re: Marion's "free" Samsung Galaxy A32-5G Tom Elam <thomas.e.elam@gmail.com> - 2025-10-06 17:07 -0400
Re: Marion's "free" Samsung Galaxy A32-5G Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2025-10-06 16:57 -0700
Re: Marion's "free" Samsung Galaxy A32-5G "David B." <BD@hotmail.co.uk> - 2025-10-07 09:31 +0100
Re: Marion's "free" Samsung Galaxy A32-5G Tom Elam <thomas.e.elam@gmail.com> - 2025-10-07 08:49 -0400
Re: Marion's "free" Samsung Galaxy A32-5G Tom Elam <thomas.e.elam@gmail.com> - 2025-10-07 08:50 -0400
Re: Marion's "free" Samsung Galaxy A32-5G -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2025-10-07 11:12 -0400
Re: Marion's "free" Samsung Galaxy A32-5G Tom Elam <thomas.e.elam@gmail.com> - 2025-10-09 07:21 -0400
Re: Marion's "free" Samsung Galaxy A32-5G -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2025-10-09 15:23 -0400
Re: Marion's "free" Samsung Galaxy A32-5G "David B." <BD@hotmail.co.uk> - 2025-10-09 22:20 +0100
Re: Marion's "free" Samsung Galaxy A32-5G -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2025-10-09 18:10 -0400
Re: Marion's "free" Samsung Galaxy A32-5G "David B." <BD@hotmail.co.uk> - 2025-10-09 23:30 +0100
Re: Marion's "free" Samsung Galaxy A32-5G Tom Elam <thomas.e.elam@gmail.com> - 2025-10-20 20:06 -0400
Re: Marion's "free" Samsung Galaxy A32-5G -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2025-10-21 09:07 +0200
Re: Marion's "free" Samsung Galaxy A32-5G Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2025-10-04 11:21 -0700
Re: Marion's "free" Samsung Galaxy A32-5G -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2025-10-05 14:08 -0400
Re: Marion's "free" Samsung Galaxy A32-5G "David B." <BD@hotmail.co.uk> - 2025-10-05 19:52 +0100
Re: Marion's "free" Samsung Galaxy A32-5G -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2025-10-05 15:48 -0400
Re: Marion's "free" Samsung Galaxy A32-5G "David B." <BD@hotmail.co.uk> - 2025-10-05 23:01 +0100
Re: Marion's "free" Samsung Galaxy A32-5G -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2025-10-06 14:00 -0400
Re: Marion's "free" Samsung Galaxy A32-5G "David B." <BD@hotmail.co.uk> - 2025-10-06 20:12 +0100
Re: Marion's "free" Samsung Galaxy A32-5G Tom Elam <thomas.e.elam@gmail.com> - 2025-10-06 17:09 -0400
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