Re: OT: Mail order nurseries

Chris wrote, in part ....
> 
> .....  I hope I didn't offend you, and in
> all seriousness, I don't think that mail-order places actually
> fill orders in their undergarments while working in the
> basement.

I can't imagine why not, Chris!!  It's how I do all my web 
development work.  <G>  It's the neighbors who laugh 
hysterically when I forget and wander out into the garden ... 

Seriously, I think that people want both.  As a customer I want 
the tremendous benefits of searching & ordering online.  As 
someone with ADD and therefore horrendous about filling out 
all those little cards for catalogs I want and would order from, 
I LOVE being able to request catalogs (even if I do have to pay 
for them) online.  

But I also want to lie in bed at night with a HUGH pile of 
catalogs and float away on the gardens of my fantasies.  (They 
weigh less than the cats anyhow.)  I like to be able to easily 
compare prices & varieties.  I like to make a list from one 
catalog & compare it with others.  Those are very difficult to 
do on the net right now.  

As a developer, I don't think most can afford to stay off the 
'net anymore (I often pray).  For whatever reason as a business 
category, gardening-related businesses have one of the largest 
presences on the internet in terms of ecommerce.  As people get 
more and more comfortable with the idea of secure servers, I 
can't imagine that e-business won't keep going up.

FWIW,
Jaime

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