Just calling your attention to the first version of the 2012 availability list, titled "Likely sell/trade offerings (2012)" and linked above, just under the header photo. I expect it to go through a lot of changes before I'm ready to begin sending things out (mostly additions for the next month or so, followed by a rapid flurry of subtractions as I realize that some of the plants aren't working out as well as I thought they would), and there are presently no photos or prices, but I thought some of you might be interested in an advance peek anyway.
Monday, March 5, 2012
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*excited*! there are definitely 2 in the almost certain category I want :)
I understand that you're not planning on pricing these yet, but could you give us a (tentative) range to work with? I found your blog only this year and don't know what prices you have offered in the past, so I have no frame of reference yet.
Anonymous:
3" were mostly $3, with a range of $2-5.
4" were mostly $4, with a range from $3-6.
URC/URO/URL were mostly $1 or $2, with a range from $1-4. Generally the amount of cuttings/leaves/whatever was sufficient to make a reasonably full 3" plant.
There were only a few 6"; they ranged from a fixer-upper that was "free to good home" to $13.
The bigger issue was always shipping, which varies according to the size of the box, the distance it's traveling, and its weight. I don't have a postal scale and was having to guess the shipping amount beforehand, so those numbers were all over the place in both directions at first; I got a little bit better about guessing by the end of the summer. The first ten shipping costs I charged:
$5, $5, $6, $6, $6, $7, $7, $7, $9.50, $17. (average: $7.55)
The first ten shipping costs (actual):
$5.35, $5.35, $5.35, $5.35, $5.60, $5.95, $8.60, $11.15, $12.40, $32.25. (average: $9.74)
Shipping was comped on trades. (The logic being that both sides were going to be paying postage to send a box, and there was no point nitpicking about the postage amounts, if the plants being exchanged were already agreed to be of equivalent value.)
How should we contact you with potential trades?
W:
e-mail. (Remove the 4 H's from mrhshubjunchthive@aol.com.)
Also be patient if I don't respond right away; my e-mail turnaround time is longer than I'd like.
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