But 30 generic percoset, for example, looks to cost about $14 locally where one struggles to pay less than that at lunch outside McDonalds. Doesn't really seem like a cash cow.
At scale it probably costs pennies to make a Percocet. If the drug maker gets $7 for a prescription that costs them $0.50 to manufacture, and they do that 150 million times in America in a year, that’s a billion dollars in gross margin.
They're available from the distributor at around 10¢ each. So $3 goes to the manufacturer and distributor and $4 goes to the pharmacy.
Incidentally, the huge difference between street price and wholesale price is the reason why diversion is a problem. If the drugs were sold at $10/pill but with instant rebates to the recipients of $9.90 then they'd probably be kept very strictly controlled, even without the DEA involved...
This also fails to account for those that demand a specific brand of pill, and will gladly pay more for it. You'd be suprised how large the difference is to an addict when comparing a yellow pill to a white one.
You are saying that selling something for $14 per month with no information about cost of goods sold or sales volume is sufficient to conclude one is doing “alright”?
That was precisely the point I was making to the commenter I replied to (unit price doesn’t determine business scale on its own), but interesting info on Spotify regardless.
