"high markup" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe a pricing strategy that involves charging a higher price relative to the cost of producing the good or service. For example: "The store operates on a high markup model, which leads to higher prices for the consumer."
(Many manufacturers put a high markup on their bespoke printing materials, just as the producers of 2D printers do on their ink).
Broadband service normally has a high markup, and the $9.99 price will more than cover the overhead costs of providing monthly Internet service.
The only other amenities are refreshments that some people carry to the crater in ice-filled polystyrene boxes to sell at a high markup.
Initiatives like theirs typically have an anti-commercial ethos: we don't need to buy our food from big chain stores at a high markup, or rely on government handouts, because we can grow our own.
A great story, but there's a better chance this successful entrepreneur saw the high markup on parts that both he and Ferrari were using and decided there were lira to be made in the exotic car business.
Last month, Mr. Pimstein, a businessman in Miami, pulled down a 17-year sentence for a $50 million Ponzi scheme in which he told investors they would get a 36percentt return on the dollars they gave him; he said he was buying iPods wholesale in the United States and selling them at a high markup in Chile.
The high markups are largely a result of supply and demand.
But I would not spend a nickel more than $55 at restaurants, which have high markups, in order to experience the '97 at dinner.
INVESTORS with an appetite for the tobacco bonds may want to consider another problem: the high markups that are being tacked onto the bonds by dealers when they sell to retail customers.
Tales have abounded in recent days of wholesalers squirreling away storehouses of buckwheat to keep prices high, or of truckers scooping up all the available supply in some regions and then selling it in others at high markups.
Mundane selections at outrageously high markups have generally made it more economical to order an entire bottle rather than two or three glasses, no matter how little diners planned to drink.
