Re: CAT - Free plants
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- Subject: Re: CAT - Free plants
- From: B* S* <B*@hsc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 11:27:19 -0500
From: Bill Shear <BILLS@hsc.edu>
Food for though, John.
Schreiner's, to take an example, offers plants at a particular catalog
price. However, if you manage to crank your order up to $80 of
non-collection plants, the price collapses to half ($40). In addition to
this, they always include at least one and sometimes two "extras."
Are iris over-priced to begin with?
Why are the smaller nurseries, whose prices are already significantly
lower, more apt to include larger numbers of "extras?"
I'm not criticizing the process unless, as John suggests, it may jack up
the prices of what you do buy. Seems to me it is just one way of
expressing appreciation to customers. If one doesn't want "extras" once
could always say so. Why don't nurseries offer a small discount in lieu of
"extras?" This would give folks a choice.
Bill Shear
Department of Biology
Hampden-Sydney College
Hampden-Sydney VA 23943
(804)223-6172
FAX (804)223-6374
email<bills@hsc.edu>
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