A suggested retail price is the price a supplier recommends its buyer sell at, offered as a reference point rather than a binding term. The retailer sets its own price; the suggestion mostly exists to make the margin arithmetic quick.
Useful as a benchmark, useless as a strategy
A suggested retail price is genuinely useful for one thing: it tells you roughly where the supplier sees the market, which saves you an afternoon of competitor research when you are pricing a catalog for the first time. Treat it as a starting benchmark and it earns its place. Treat it as the answer and you have outsourced your pricing to someone whose costs are not yours.
Your costs are not the supplier's costs and your customers are not their customers. If your acquisition cost per order is high, the suggested price may not clear it. If you are selling into a niche that values documentation and turnaround, it may be leaving money behind. The only price that matters is the one that covers your landed cost, your acquisition cost, and your dispute rate, with something left.
One thing a suggested price is not is a floor you have agreed to. Unless you have signed a minimum advertised price term, you set your number. Work it upward from your own landed cost rather than downward from the suggestion, and take the starting figure from the current catalog rather than from the recommendation printed next to it.
Related terms
Per-vial pricing, no pack fees, shipped blind under your brand
Product at wholesale, $1 per vial to label it, postage at carrier cost, weekly invoicing on net-7. No setup fees, no monthly minimums, no minimum order quantities.
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