I have to disagree with you Michael.  It is not an underhanded practice and occurs in every other business and not just ours.

  Here are a couple of examples of mark ups.

  HUD Settlement statement states Title Search $250 when they paid the abstractor $50.

  Grocery store, lettuce $1.09 when they paid $.40

  Tire Store sold a tire for $99 but bought it at $49.

  None of these businesses list what they paid for a product or service, it is called mark up.

  Jay