And if you are so inclined, you can fight your way into the City to do business there reselling those trees for whatever the market will bear.
So it goes. (And $50 for a 3-foot tree is outrageous.)
I remember there were tree lots on Canal Street that were cheap. Christmas is lovely in NYC with all the chestnuts and windows.
If I want to decorate a Christmas tree I will just run an extension cord to one of the thousands growing on the farm, only drawback is most of are between 40 and 100 feet tall.