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    Agent Behaviour

    wow - i thought Manz's post was a wind up... but it seems he was / is serious!
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    If Carling did sporting kit.... it wouldn't look like this

    horrific. In which sport are jeans and t-shirt deemed your 'kit'? Sounds like my kinda sport :)
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    Selling IP to USA

    not sure if this link is any good, Sartois (it is a NI site, but the theory must be the same): Selling your intellectual property | nibusinessinfo.co.uk Just have a quick google of "selling IP" and see what comes up... good luck :)
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    A Great Place To Work

    depending on how long you've been there, and any extensions, you could have said: "top banana company" :banana:
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    Can an agency find out what rate you were on previously?

    indeed.. happy to continue in General. I just don't understand why people argue for the sake of arguing :ladybags:
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    Can an agency find out what rate you were on previously?

    No, not at all. Not sure why/how you feel that. In the example, I used an arbitrary figure of 12% Margin as being a competitors rate. On a day rate of £1000 @ 12% Margin, the Client would be charged £1136.36 versus our charge of £1070.00 @ 7% mark-up. It's not deliberate (or unnecessarily)...
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    Can an agency find out what rate you were on previously?

    to quote Taita: "If anybody has the most basic maths ability then Mark-up is as easy to calculate as Margin."
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    Can an agency find out what rate you were on previously?

    ok, sorry :) So roughly £70 margin / £65 mark up - so the contractor would get 930 / 935 of the 1000
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    Can an agency find out what rate you were on previously?

    All of that is fine - but we are not charging 20% mark-up... we're charging 7% mark-up versus (say) 12% Margin... which is about 13/14% mark-up
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    Can an agency find out what rate you were on previously?

    ok... go on...? £1000 per day pay = £1136.36 charge @ 12% Margin £1000 per day pay = £1070.00 charge @ 7% mark-up £1136.36 - £1070.00 = £66.36 £66.36 * 5 = £331.80 per week
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    Can an agency find out what rate you were on previously?

    Not quite sure what you're getting at. Throughout this site, you and others have been berating Agencies for charging the earth - which I would assume is far in excess of 7% margin. If I looked at a conservative charge of 12% Margin on £1000 per day contractor the charge to the Client would...
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    Can an agency find out what rate you were on previously?

    £1075.27 - margin £1070.00 - mark up
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    Can an agency find out what rate you were on previously?

    Turns out there was a DNS issue with the hosts and all their sites and email servers were affected. All resolved now
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    Can an agency find out what rate you were on previously?

    Who is comparing? We're stating that we apply a Mark-up rather than Margin... which is much more transparent and easier to calculate; I'm sure you'll agree.
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    Can an agency find out what rate you were on previously?

    No, thank you, that is all for now :wink

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