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Post by sykosarah on Feb 21, 2014 4:45:40 GMT
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Post by adelea on Feb 21, 2014 5:22:42 GMT
HAHA, maybe its a very rare locailty?, although many plants here in Aust sell for odd prices, every now and then there are bicalarata sri aman for sale and they fetch over $100 everytime, the odd thing is that they are only $30 from the nursery that supplies Au with them.
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Post by tanukimo on Feb 21, 2014 6:17:09 GMT
Wow it doesn't even have upper pitchers. They may only be $30, but I think Australia is really strict on what plants can be imported so they probably need phytosanitary certificates and import permits to bring them in. That's what preventing me from ordering from foreign suppliers.
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Post by sykosarah on Feb 21, 2014 14:46:56 GMT
The crazy part isn't just the price, but that there are takers!
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Post by hcarlton on Feb 21, 2014 15:02:34 GMT
There are offers, but likely people trying to offer realistic prices. The seller's also trying to sell a small N. macrophylla for $1000.
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Post by paulbarden on Feb 21, 2014 15:04:23 GMT
While I agree that the price seems outrageous, you have to remember that the plant is probably 8 - 10 years old, maybe even older. Suddenly the idea that it has earned $100 per year of cultivation doesn't seem as exaggerated. (Though there's no way I'd pay that price myself, I can understand someone justifying the cost, since ANY plant of lowii is now incredibly difficult to come by)
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Post by paulbarden on Feb 21, 2014 15:07:33 GMT
There are offers, but likely people trying to offer realistic prices. The moron's also trying to sell a small N. macrophylla for $1000 (yes, not the nicest word description, but sane people don't even look at plants listed for that cost). Let's not call people names, please. You need to consider that the seller is probably a member of the CP fora, and is likely to read this. Secondly, the plant is not "small" -- it's apparently about ten inches across, and at that size, it's undoubtedly at least a decade old, since it is grown from seed. I'm not suggesting that the asking price is reasonable, but let's have some perspective, please. |
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Post by arh on Feb 26, 2014 15:01:15 GMT
www.florafauna.com/carnivorous-plants/large-seed-grown-nepenthes-villosa.html Here's a little something else to make you smile... and this is only one example. If you search around the site you'll find a few others for almost 10gs as well, and even what appears to be n. robcantleyi for $4500. Can that even be legal to charge that much? I feel like there is something criminal about it. I appreciate the rare species, and the effort they require, but geez. AW has those for a fraction of the cost!
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Post by paulbarden on Feb 26, 2014 15:28:00 GMT
That seller has appeared in these discussions several times in the past year or so. Nobody in the community takes those offerings seriously, and I don't think the seller does either. I suspect the outrageous price tag is designed solely to drive traffic to his site, not turn into actual sales.
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Post by sykosarah on Feb 26, 2014 15:31:51 GMT
Yeah, I have seen that site before. I just ended up assuming that those plants must have some historical or horticulturally significant origins to cost that much.
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Post by paulbarden on Feb 26, 2014 15:43:23 GMT
Yeah, I have seen that site before. I just ended up assuming that those plants must have some historical or horticulturally significant origins to cost that much. No. It's a subterfuge. No plant, seed-grown or otherwise, merits such a price. |
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Post by sykosarah on Feb 26, 2014 15:47:40 GMT
Well, I certainly wasn't going to buy one from them, those ridiculous prices drove me away!
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Post by Dave Evans on Feb 28, 2014 2:41:00 GMT
www.florafauna.com/carnivorous-plants/large-seed-grown-nepenthes-villosa.html Here's a little something else to make you smile... and this is only one example. If you search around the site you'll find a few others for almost 10gs as well, and even what appears to be n. robcantleyi for $4500. Can that even be legal to charge that much? I feel like there is something criminal about it. I appreciate the rare species, and the effort they require, but geez. AW has those for a fraction of the cost! No, this guy is trying to teach us to love nature more by showing us it is better to charge more for our plants because paying more for it comes closer to the "true value". It is something I call histrionic mental flip-floppery. What these folks seem to be missing is the CP community *shares* our economic values with the rest of the world that has never heard of CP's or doesn't care about them and we also have other things to spend our money on, like balancing the bills. Something I don't think some rich folks know much about... Yeah, I have seen that site before. I just ended up assuming that those plants must have some historical or horticulturally significant origins to cost that much. No. It's a subterfuge. No plant, seed-grown or otherwise, merits such a price. I'm not a doctor, but I'm pretty sure this isn't subterfuge. It is a personality disorder called histrionic. A lot people only know about the "*****ty woman" model, but it comes in several forms and tends to be completely overlooked in men. In this case, the person himself probably is not suffering from HPD, but their mode of thinking about this subject is suffering from it and this shows by the negative reaction people have to it. To further highlight how this is disordered: People in the CP-Community only have so much money. If we were to start making plants cost this much, would the community have any or much money to give to charities that actually do protect plants? |
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