Re: Mail order nurseries
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- Subject: Re: Mail order nurseries
- From: H* a* J* J*
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 12:24:40 -0600
I agree with Sue ....I love to sit and look at the catalog without tying up
the phone lines to do it....and I get tired of sitting at the computer all
the time to look for a plant I might want to add to my flower garden.....So
I too wouldn't mind paying a reasonable price for the catalogs.....the first
one that is.....but if I became a regular customer I would expect the
courtesy of free catalogs in the future,as long as I continued to order from
them!
Janice Jenkins
-----Original Message-----
From: Pesznecker, Sue <SPesznec@lhs.org>
To: 'perennials@mallorn.com' <perennials@mallorn.com>
Date: Thursday, January 21, 1999 11:51 AM
Subject: RE: Mail order nurseries
>> My biggest expense in operating a nursery are not plants, potting
>> > medium or pots, but catalogs and mailing.
>>
>>
>> I was curious though... Is the Internet changing any of this? Catalogs
>> could be
>> browseable online, available for download in PDF of PostScript file
>> formats,
>> etc. for just the cost of a Web site. In all seriousness, how do you
>> think people
>> would react if you asked them to look at your Web site instead of sending
>> out
>> a catalog? Or what if you could send them a $.05 floppy disk instead? I
>> know that
>> I would personally prefer an electronic copy (I could search for plants
in
>> a catalog
>> much faster, etc.)
>>
>> I normally wouldn't post this to the whole list, but I'm curious if
anyone
>> knows of
>> a place that does this.
>>
>> Chris
>>
>>
>>
>Chris,
>
>There are indeed some sits that are already doing this, i.e. asking you to
>download a catalog or, more often, asking you to browse a catalog at their
>site.
>
>I have problems with this approach. In fact, when I go to a site hunting
>for a catalog and get this reaction, my impulse is to immediately go to a
>different site.
>
>Why?
>
>In my house, the phone and computers are on a single line. We have a
family
>rule about not tying up the lines for any reason for longer than 20
minutes.
>So spending extensive time browsing is not possible.
>
>Also, we all share a single computer (including my high-school daughter,
who
>uses it nightly for homework). I work days, and by the time the chores are
>done, dinner is made and cleaned up, etc., there are maybe a precious 1-2
>hours left in the evening to get everything else done. So, I don't have a
>lot of time to sit in front of the computer, particularly when I have to
>"take a number" along with everyone else.
>
>On the other hand, we have catalogs. I can relax in the living room, fire
>crackling in the fireplace, snow falling outside, gardening notebook and
>catalogs at hand as I sketch out my spring veggie garden or plan a new
>perennial bed. I can sit happily in my bed at night, a cup of tea at my
>side, and can pile the catalogs up and enjoy looking through them. I can
>take one into the bathtub. I can tuck one into my briefcase for perusing
at
>lunchtime. I can leave on in the car to look through when stuck at a train
>crossing. I can carry one to my local garden shop, comparing pictures,
>prices, etc. I can (and do) cut pictures and/or information out of the
>catalogs and paste them into my garden notebook. I can tear out really
nice
>photos or good information and tack it up above my potting bench......
(You
>get the idea!)
>
>I love computers, I love the Internet, but I love and want to keep my paper
>catalogs. And while free is a great price (!), I would gladly pay a few $$
>to be able to keep that catalog in hand.
>
>Sue P.
>
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