The trouble is, retailers bear all the costs of such sales efforts but reap only some of the benefits.

问题是，那样零售商要承担所有的销售成本，但最后只能收获利润额的一部分。

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For example, if marketing/sales people bear no responsibility or accountability for returns, there is no incentive to manage profitable sales.

例如，如果市场营销人员对退货没有承担责任与义务，那么就没有动机管理获利销售。

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Thus senior IBM people in the sales channel probably bear some responsibility for helping the client get into this mess, but blaming either DB2 or IBM's technical people for it is likely to be wrong.

因此IBM销售渠道的主要人员可能要对帮助客户陷入这种混乱负起一定的责任，但指责DB 2或IBM的技术人员对此负责也许是错的。

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The movie and music industries obviously think so, though I wonder if the sales figures bear out their argument (Forbes contributor Paul Tassi thinks not).

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Riccardo, a sell-side analyst at Bear Stearns, thinks Prempro sales have already bottomed out, and that the changes to the label won't further hurt sales.

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Sweden's Sandvik (6.6, SDVKY) fell 70% in the bear market as the recession whacked sales of its metal-cutting, mining and construction tools as well as specialty alloys based on titanium and zirconium, used in thousands of applications like boiler tubes and flanges.

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