Solar Sales Commission

[dennis in se pa]

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[UconnTim97]

They sell sunlight where you live? I get mine for free.

Otherwise, I have nothing productive to add to this thread.

Carry on...

[9dreizig]

all over the map,, is there a base ??

[dennis in se pa]

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[Zeke]

Most home improvement salespersons get 10% of the gross. Sometimes on high dollar items they get less. I'd say no lower than 8%. There can be bonuses for achieving monetary levels.

Some folks sell blinds and they might sell 2-3 orders a day. A solar guy might sell 1-2 a month, so it all works out.

[Tim Hancock]

Snake oil salesman?

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by Tim Hancock

Snake oil salesman?

They get 100%.

[dennis in se pa]

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[tcar]

You're aware that they don't work financially?

Anything that needs a huge federal subsidy is a financial con.

That everyone on Pelican will be paying a good chunk of your salary?

[Tim Hancock]

With enough large enough tax payer subsidies, these do work for people. I wonder if the govt will help pay again 15 years or so down the road when the cells need replacing when their output diminishes from exposure.

[dennis in se pa]

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[tcar]

Originally Posted by dennis in se pa

You guys paying my salary? Works for me!

Hope so. We don't have any choice, do we?

[Tim Hancock]

Originally Posted by tcar

Hope so. We don't have any choice, do we?

I think he is looking to buy a solar set-up for his house and posed the question to simply see if the solar panel salesmen are ripping him off. (as you and I will agree the only ones getting ripped off are all the tax payers who fund the govt subsidies that are propping this non financially viable energy source up )

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by Tim Hancock

I think he is looking to buy a solar set-up for his house and posed the question to simply see if the solar panel salesmen are ripping him off. (as you and I will agree the only ones getting ripped off are all the tax payers who fund the govt subsidies that are propping this non financially viable energy source up )

Tim, you didn't even read the thread before you took it to politics. You gonna blame Obama?

Read this post since you missed it:

Originally Posted by dennis in se pa

As a point of clarification, I should have given more info. This is an independent contractor sales position. Residential whole house solar panel systems. The extra power produced is credited towards evening hours, or sold back to the utility. With federal and state credits and SRECs and tax credits it more than pays for itself quickly. I am going to do this, I am just trying to make sure the commission they are offering is appropriate. Thanks for any substantive input.

[McLovin]

Solar? Everyone knows the future is in Mexican pottery! Aye chihuahua!

[dennis in se pa]

I guess I picked the wrong place to ask this.

[tcar]

Originally Posted by Tim Hancock

I think he is looking to buy a solar set-up for his house and posed the question to simply see if the solar panel salesmen are ripping him off. (as you and I will agree the only ones getting ripped off are all the tax payers who fund the govt subsidies that are propping this non financially viable energy source up )

No, but he's deleted his posts... he isn't buying solar...

[Aurel]

Originally Posted by Tim Hancock

With enough large enough tax payer subsidies, these do work for people. I wonder if the govt will help pay again 15 years or so down the road when the cells need replacing when their output diminishes from exposure.

By then, the combination of mass production and new technologies will make them financially viable without subsidies. It is considered that a production cost of less then $0.5/Wp is competitive with oil or coal electricity. Silicon is challenged to achieve that, because of the high refining energy cost for making pure enough silicon. But other semiconductors, such as CdS/CdTe, do not have such high production costs. 10% efficient Modules produced by first solar are already at 1$/Wp, and they are cloning factories like crazy. People need to understand what is expensive in photovoltaic technology, and how cost can and will be reduced.

[Tim Hancock]

Originally Posted by Aurel

By then, the combination of mass production and new technologies will make them financially viable without subsidies. It is considered that a production cost of less then $0.5/Wp is competitive with oil or coal electricity. Silicon is challenged to achieve that, because of the high refining energy cost for making pure enough silicon. But other semiconductors, such as CdS/CdTe, do not have such high production costs. 10% efficient Modules produced by first solar are already at 1$/Wp, and they are cloning factories like crazy. People need to understand what is expensive in photovoltaic technology, and how cost can and will be reduced.

I have designed prototype tooling for First Solar and recently designed several machines for another Toledo Ohio company Xunlight. I have been in both Toledo locations several times. I am fully aware of the very expensive process of sputtering large quantities of precious metals in a semi conductor clean vacuum onto large quantities of solar panels in a production enviroment. It has been done for many years now in large scale plants and it is not going to get much cheaper. Maybe someday someone will invent some other way to glean energy from solar.... until then solar will only be "viable" large scale if it is propped up by subsidies and by govt's taxing more affordable power.

I have not gone political here.... I only am stating the facts as I have witnessed them here in Toledo, Ohio where three solar companies have started up in recent years.

I apologize if I read the OP wrong. This just happens to be a subject that really gets under my skin after seeing numerous campaign photo ops in the national news a couple years ago making it sound like Xunlight is on the verge of greatness when in reality, they are not doing well at all. First Solar is in production obviously, but most of their sales have been heavily subsidized including some very large 1 million dollar + solar fields that were 100% govt funded.

The MSM does not say this on their broadcasts... rather they paint this stuff in a rosy light and fail to mention much about the subsidies.

[Joe Bob]

when they force the power companies to buy back ALL of your generated power, I'll consider solar.....