$475 lbs for 10 seeds? So thats like almost $1,000 USD
Whats up with that? anybody tried it?
Why shouldn't they charge a thousand bucks for ten seeds? Maybe a couple of idiots will buy them. Maybe more than a couple. Think of the profit they'd make on a handful of people with more money than sense. Can the cost of production and distribution of these Magic Beans be much more than their less expensive offerings? How much more? If the thousand dollar seeds sell, look for fifteen hundred dollar seed coming your way soon.
Have you heard of the Dutch Tulip Mania? This passage is from
Tulip mania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia :
"In 1623, a single bulb of a famous tulip variety could cost as much as a thousand Dutch florins (the average yearly income at the time was 150 florins). Tulips were also exchanged for land, valuable livestock, and houses. Allegedly, a good trader could earn six thousand florins a month.
By 1635, a sale of 40 bulbs for 100,000 florins was recorded. By way of comparison, a ton of butter cost around 100 florins and "eight fat swine" 240 florins. A record was the sale of the most famous bulb, the
Semper Augustus, for 6,000 florins in Harrlem.
By 1636, tulips were traded on the stock exchanges of numerous Dutch towns and cities. This encouraged trading in tulips by all members of society, with many people selling or trading their other possessions in order to speculate in the tulip market. Some speculators made large profits as a result. Others lost all or even more than they had."
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My opinion? They're just looking for gullible boys on the way to the fair, who may be willing to exchange a cow, or "eight fat swine", for a few beans.
Then again, maybe it's just a typo.
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