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The geography doesn't scale up for the US though. I imagine people in Oregon, near the growers, also pay less per tree.
by mNovak 6y ago
The geography doesn't scale up for the US though. I imagine people in Oregon, near the growers, also pay less per tree.
- jdlshore 6y agoI live in Portland Oregon and paid $40 for a 6’ noble fir yesterday at a small retail lot. Normally, you can bargain down the price (and judging by his tentative price quote, he was expecting me to) but I was happy with that price and didn’t bother.
- mason55 6y agoI tried to barter at a NYC sidewalk tree seller for our office tree once. They wouldn’t budge so I walked. Had to embarrassingly come back 30 mins later when we couldn’t even find another tree seller. They were nice and didn’t raise the price further.
- dmurray 6y agoI think you mean "haggle" rather than "barter". Unless you were offering him supplies from your office instead of cash.
- my_username_is_ 6y agoOregonian here. The prices at Ace Hardware yesterday were $40 for a Doug Fir, and $65 for a Noble Fir. A couple years ago I think I paid $60 for a Doug Fir. But you can also just pay $5 to get a permit from the Forest Service and go cut down your own tree. There are some restrictions (no trees over 12', and there must be other trees within 20' for example) but it's fun to hunt your own tree down--even if the tree that you get isn't a perfectly triangular cone shape like you may get at a tree lot