Posted on 12/05/2016 7:53:26 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Yuletide capitalism is running rampant this year — with the cost of a Christmas tree topping $1,000 in one Manhattan neighborhood.
Longtime Greenwich Village tree seller Heather Neville said Sunday that her tallest — and priciest — offering will command an astonishing $77 per foot from any buyer who can’t haul it home.
“This 13-foot tree — a beautiful fir — is $750, and with delivery, installation with a stand and tip would be $1,000,” said Neville, who bills herself as the NYC Tree Lady.
Neville, 40, broke down the add-ons as $200 for the stand, $25 for delivery and setup and $20 each to the three or four men needed for the job.
She also justified the sky-high price tag — which could pay for 600-plus meals for the homeless at the Bowery Mission — by pointing to the exotic nature of the white fir on display at Seventh Avenue and 11th Street.
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We stopped using real trees when the garbage truck stopped picking them up. You have to load them up yourself and take them to a recycling place for Christmas trees. Too much work.
It did pay for the meals and rent and utilities of the families that grew the trees, transported the trees, set-up the trees, etc..
With those prices, it ain’t the trees that are getting flocked.
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I’m sure there’s something wrong with this story. Why would anyone pay 1k for a tree?
We stopped using live trees after a fire dept demo of just how fast a dry tree will burn.....
We bought ours yesterday for 40 bucks.
I intend to. I'll kill an extra for you.
Here, after Christmas, Boy scouts used to collect the dead trees to take to the beach to act as dune anchors. They haven’t done that in years........................
“1,000 dollars in Manhattan is like 100 dollars for everyone else in America. Their net worth and annual salary are extremely high.”
A few years ago my company had a vendor who lived in CT and did biz a couple of days a week in Manhattan. She said between tolls, parking, lunch, taxes and other fees she was paying upwards of $150 day just for the privilege of commuting and working there.
I guess he wanted to have ground pork...............
LOL!..............
You have a business? Look for your taxes to drop soon. LOL!
Back when I observed Chr*stm*s; I scored a beautiful tree from a man set up on the roadside in Roan Mountain, TN for a mere ten bucks. A beautiful tree.
A perfect Noble fir here goes for $30 if you cut yourself. Helps to live in a rain forest.
Pray America woke
I purchased one just like that two years ago (right after Christmas). It took maybe 15 min to set it up. It replaced another tree we had used for over 15 years. We paid maybe $50 for each one.
Real trees are great in theory, but as a practical matter, artificial trees are a better value for my money. I cant imagine paying over a grand for something that you throw away after using it for a month.
Well, they are paying for the service
She delivers them and sets them up in the house with the stand and tree topper
People in the city, generally don’t have cars, let alone a pick up truck to move a tree. That is what they are paying for.
Break pads and rotors are only like $50 for most cars, and people everyday pay mechanics $200 to $300 per axel to change them.....
No difference here
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.
Ha—I grew up on a farm in a similar situation. Now I’m happy to frame a window and burden some sturdy houseplant with mini-lights on the season—probably because I don’t have any kiddos here.
But I have always like potted and outdoors flowers and plants more than picked or harvested ones doing the slow death before me.
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