JBE

For the guys making and selling a lot of laminate colored baits. What do you do with the sprues that are left over? Seems too time consuming to cut them in half if doing much volume and too costly to throw them all away. Also from a cost perspective how can the prices remain the same as the solid colors. I currently just hand inject all my plastics and can't seem to justify adding laminate color baits to my color selections. ?????????????????????

Sorry still confused! Do most of you just add the 10% Excise tax on to your wholesale orders? What about selling retail, should it be added to the customers total or should the manufacturer just swallow the tax fees? Doesn't seem to be much profit left for the working man by the time we pay a 10% excise fee up front and then pay an additional state and federal tax fee at the end of the year that adds up to probably at least 20% if not more. 30% plus in taxes, 33% in materials, along w/ a huge investment in equipment. Cool I think when its all said and done we can make about 3 dollars an hour w/ our operation. Any words of wisdom? LOL