Not a single comment re. me doubling the commission rate?

Come on; this is unacceptable gouging.  Who does he think he is.  Etc?

Here's a profit chart.  I added a green "expected - 5k" line to show how we're running parallel to expectation, just about 5k below it.

Expectation is that we'll continue to do so.  We won't, of course - we'll do better or worse that expected.