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Recently spotted at Bunnings---a red cherry guava,a seedling, at $38. "Lower prices are just a fiction"

Time: 29th August 2012 8:43am

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Michael D says...
That's not a bad price as my local independent nursery is selling it for $65.I'm not sure why the cherry guava are so expensive.

Time: 29th August 2012 9:10am

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louie says...
Cherry guavas are dead easy to grow from seed.In fact my tree has dozens of seedlings pop up around the base. There is no excuse for that sort of price gouging.

Time: 29th August 2012 10:05am

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BJ says...
Michael, that is rediculous. I've seen local nurseries charge $80 for a grafted Jakfruit, which I thought was super cheeky, but $65 for a weed?

Time: 29th August 2012 10:25am

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Pauline says...
They will have got it from a wholesale nursery, who would have charged their own price which bunnings then have to go by. If you are lucky enough to have found a local nursery who grows their own, or has a cheaper suplier that is great. Not sure why anyone would be upset with bunnings charging a price compatible with what they have had to pay.



Time: 30th August 2012 2:06pm

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louie says...
Missing the point ,Pauline. What Bunnings paid is probably much ,much less. They are taking advantage of people who do not have time to shop around

Time: 30th August 2012 6:13pm

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Mike says...
At Big W and the locak Bunnings store here they are around the same as grafted citrus which is about $25 for good sized the cherry guavas.That would allow a modest but not handsome profit.There seem to be standard retail prices for particular fruit trees across a variety of outlets around here.

$80 for a grafted jackfruit is an outrage and the retailer should have been wearing a balaclava for that robbery.

Time: 30th August 2012 7:01pm

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Pauline says...
No Louie I'm not. Where I work supplies bunnings with plants, which we have to barcode with bunnings prices and their mark up is less than most nurseries around here at least. Just about the only one who charges less is stratco.

The point you were missing is that they do not buy plants from every supplier out there, only ones they have agreements with. If another nursery has found a cheaper suplier then great for them, but it doesn't mean bunnings are getting it from those same people at that same price.

Time: 1st September 2012 11:11am

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louie says...
OK, Pauline, sounds as if you could break down the cost of that $38 plant at every stage of its journey to the consumer. Would you attempt that? Or ,as an insider, you have been sworn to secrecy.

Time: 1st September 2012 3:48pm

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Pauline says...
Look, you are going to believe you are being ripped off no matter what I say. But as I said, they add far less to their costs than other nurseries. I can only go by the price I know they buy at and then see that they sell at. You don't want to accept that, and that is fine. Spend your life feeling hard done by at every turn. Your loss.

Time: 1st September 2012 5:02pm

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Pauline says...
Maybe you work for a competitor of bunnings? I can't see why you would be so anti them otherwise. After all, if you don't like it, shop elsewhere.

Time: 1st September 2012 5:05pm

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Mike says...
I have bought quite a few trees from bunnings and they are pretty good most of the time.They are increasingly getting a range of good mangoes,lychees and other fruit trees sourced from nurseries like birdwood.Big w is the same.It can be difficult for specialised nurseries to compete and say Limberlost in Cairns is routinely more expensive.There are always anomalies and cherry guavas seem to be one of those.I don't know why they are often double the price of jaboticabas,tropical guavas and grafted sapodillas when on display together.

Time: 1st September 2012 6:02pm

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Phil@Tyalgum says...
Interestingly the Tweed Heads store had White Sapote "Dade" for sale last week, hidden amongst some more run-of-the-mill trees.

Time: 1st September 2012 6:18pm

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Fusspot says...
They're more expensive for the simple reason that there's not much demand for them.
They're not as useful or as widely grown as say citrus, so there would be fewer trees propagated.
So if you want a novelty fruit, you pay novelty prices.
Simple.

Time: 1st September 2012 7:26pm

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louie says...
Don't get all hormonal, Pauline. I simply asked what the cost at each stage was -you seemed to know. Asking that does not indicate deficiency of character or suppressed rage . I do , however, wonder if you would venture a similar diatribe in person.

Time: 2nd September 2012 9:27am

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BJ says...
Birdwood have also said bunnings has the lowest markups of any of their stockists (except for one small nursery down the street in Nambour). They have started to move away from specialty or novelty lines and are focussing on the major sellers - the ones bunnings want in big numbers. This does mean that things like cherry guavas, which should not really be sold anyways, will be sourced from smaller and more expensive wholesalers. Having said that, Daley's prices must be what the wholesalers charge on the more tropical lines, as grafted Jaks are around $60 in bunnies. The nurseries with the best reputations seem to be able to charge like wounded bulls, but this strategy will see them go the way of the dinosaurs.

Time: 2nd September 2012 10:01am

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peter 1000 says...
ok just curious,
what are the plants that bunnings would
want in big numbers?

Time: 2nd September 2012 10:06am

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BJ says...
We'd be talking about a few going to every bunnings, which means huge numbers to an exotic fruit nursery. I believe they were talking about dragon fruit, mangoes, avocadoes, specialty citrus lines (cara cara navel, dwarf mandarins) starfruit, feijoa, grapes, coffee, etc. These are all produced by birdwood and every store for a few hundred kms here always has a few on hand. It makes it mighty hard to get cultivars outside of the required few bunnings wants though. I'm finding it hard to get a reed avocado, which were dead easy a few years back...

Time: 2nd September 2012 6:59pm

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David says...
Hi BJ this is so true, i just have to cast my mind back 20yrs and could count as many as 6 specialist rare tropical fruit supplying nurseries in the brisbane area. This has now dwindled down to 1 maybee.

Time: 2nd September 2012 7:29pm

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ivepeters says...
lots of pepino at bunnings at the moment.
Found Turners nursery , carry a few tropicals.

Time: 2nd September 2012 8:12pm

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jakfruit yetihut says...
Bunning's is not a plant nursery, it is a home/hardware warehouse, and they sell and distribute plants in the same way they deal with all their other products

Time: 2nd September 2012 11:47pm

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