With its aluminum body and frame, the Insight was an expensive car to produce and was never designed for high-volume sales.

Mr. Antar also relied on high-volume sales to help make hair-thin markups of his goods profitable.

Some people say they are also too big, too heavy and still too limited in their usefulness to achieve high-volume sales.

But calculators offered the potential for high-volume sales, even before the personal computer came along to turn the microprocessor into a multibillion-dollar product.

We're doing very high-volume sales, we make as much as any metropolitan music store, and we're seeing a significant improvement in the amount of visitors who buy from us.

In an effort to attract large sellers, eBay is designating auction software companies to help provide logistical services for high-volume sales.

In the smartphone market, Nokia's high-volume sales kept Symbian in first place with 81m units shipped for a market share of 46.9%, down from 52.4%.

He transformed electronics retailing by relying on high-volume sales.

"The black kids are buying these shoes but they're not really benefiting from high-volume sales," Pearson noted.

"There are a lot of large dealers concerned with high-volume sales and high-pressure selling," he said.