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> They’re highly perishable, available in small quantities and wildly seasonal. And there is apparently demand for them, which overall means they should indeed
by mytailorisrich 3y ago
> They’re highly perishable, available in small quantities and wildly seasonal.
And there is apparently demand for them, which overall means they should indeed be relatively expensive.
If sellers need to "drive motivated buyers to their carts" by selling cheap for such a troublesome product then in a developed country they will probably just not sell it because it isn't worthwhile.
- darkerside 3y agoHow can everyone be so confident without knowing stock, volume, or prices?
- mytailorisrich 3y ago> By the time I arrived at Brooklyn’s Park Slope farmers’ market in search of a pawpaw one morning last week, it was already too late: The weird green fruit had sold out within an hour. “You have to get here early,” Jeff Rowe of Orchard Hill Organics, the market’s lone pawpaw vendor, told me. And > They’re highly perishable, available in small quantities and wildly seasonal. Hence my previous comment, so I don't understand yours...
- darkerside 3y agoHow much should the farmer raise prices by? Hard to say when you don't know what it was priced at. Did the farmer bring 5? 15? 5 bushels? Selling your stock in an hour may be an optimal strategy.
- mytailorisrich 3y agoHow does that rebuke my comments? HN's nitpicking in all its glory, me thinks...
- darkerside 3y agoDidn't mean to rebuke your comment. I think I was mostly responding to OJFord