Kinda off topic, but interesting tidbit about markup:
(I'm in the wrong business)
Did you ever wonder how much it costs a drug company for
the
> active ingredient in prescription medications? Some people think it
must
> cost a lot, since many drugs sell for more than $2.00 per tablet. We
did a
> search of offshore chemical synthesizers that supply the active ingredients
> found in drugs approved by the FDA. As we have revealed in past
issues of
> Life Extension, a significant percentage of drugs sold in the United States
> contain active ingredients made in other countries. In our independent
> investigation of how much profit drug companies really make, we
obtained the
> actual price of active ingredients used in some of the most popular
drugs
> sold in America. The chart below speaks for itself.
>
> Celebrex 100 mg
> Cost of general active ingredients: $0.60 Percent markup: 21,712%
>
> Claritin 10 mg Consumer Price (100 tablets): $215.17
> Cost of general active ingredients: $0.71
> Percent markup: 30,306%
>
> Keflex 250 mg
> Consumer Price (100 tablets): $157.39
> Cost of general active ingredients: $1.88
> Percent markup: 8,372%
>
> Lipitor 20 mg
> Consumer Price (100 tablets): $272.37
> Cost of general active ingredients: $5.80
> Percent markup: 4,696%
>
> Norvasec 10 mg
> Consumer price (100 tablets): $188.29
> Cost of general active ingredients: $0.14
> Percent markup: 134,493%
>
> Paxil 20 mg
> Consumer price (100 tablets): $220.27
> Cost of general active ingredients: $7.60
> Percent markup: 2,898%
>
> Prevacid 30 mg :Consumer price (100 tablets): $44.77
> Cost of general active ingredients: $1.01
> Percent markup: 34,136%
>
>
> Prilosec 20 mg
> Consumer price (100 tablets): $360.97
> Cost of general active ingredients $0.52
> Percent markup: 69,417%
>
>
> Prozac 20 mg
> Consumer price (100 tablets) : $247.47
> Cost of general active ingredients: $0.11
> Percent markup: 224,973%
>
> Tenormin 50 mg
> Consumer price (100 tablets): $104.47
> Cost of general active ingredients: $0.13
> Percent markup: 80,362%
>
>
> Vasotec 10 mg
> Consumer price (100 tablets): $102.37
> Cost of general active ingredients: $0.20
> Percent markup: 51,185%
>
>
> Xanax 1 mg
> Consumer price (100 tablets) : $136.79
> Cost of general active ingredients: $0.024
> Percent markup: 569,958%
>
>
> Zestril 20 mg
> Consumer price (100 tablets) $89.89
> Cost of general active ingredients $3.20
> Percent markup: 2,809%
>
>
> Zithromax 600 m
> Consumer price (100 tablets): $1,482.19
> Cost of general active ingredients: $18.78
> Percent markup: 7,892%
>
>
> Zocor 40 mg
> Consumer price (100 tablets): $350.27
> Cost of general active ingredients: $8.63
> Percent markup: 4,059%
>
> Zoloft 50 mg
> Consumer price: $206.87
> Cost of general active ingredients: $1.75
> Percent markup: 11,821%