I did think of doing this a few years ago

I can't give you promises but I reckon at a reasonable guess you can but import Xmas trees from the Dutch for about £5 each delivered as long as you buy a fuck load.

Anyone see the price of a tree last year? well obviously a lot of you did and unless it was dead, I'm fairly sure it would have been over a fiver.

So chip in £500 with 4 or so friends and buy multiples of 100 trees and flog them for £15, under cutting everyone else in the area, just fudge up a load of signs and I think you'd make a killing. +£900 each in 10 days, more if the £2k is all yours and you can still do your normal job if you pay a flunky to look after your pitch.

In fact I may try it this year - so don't be copying my idea. Hmmm.


Regards
Kip



(Kip, Mon 4 Aug 2008, 13:55, 7 replies)

Hmmm...
So you're suggesting I should buy trees at a price you've plucked out of the air, keep them under my bed for five months, and then flog them at another price you've plucked out of the air?


Ohhhh-Kaaaaaaaaaaay...

*makes mental note to go elsewhere for business advice*

:)
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 4 Aug 2008, 14:01, closed)

yabba dabba doo
Where on earth would i find the space to store 100s of xmas trees in my 2 bed apartment ? :)
(Miggyman, Mon 4 Aug 2008, 14:13, closed)

or
you could grow your own, and wait 15 yrs for them to mature...

problem solved
(Dan dan dan They tik urh jerbs!!!, Mon 4 Aug 2008, 14:22, closed)

You have been watching
Malcolm in the middle.
( baw__bag contains traces of nuts on, Mon 4 Aug 2008, 14:29, closed)

^
haha - great episode...
(Dan dan dan They tik urh jerbs!!!, Mon 4 Aug 2008, 14:41, closed)

@ Enzyme
sounds about right.

but I can't be arsed checking out exact prices so you lot can make money out of it.

That be your mission should you choose to accept it.

@ Miggyman, you get them delivered a little closer to the time.

@ baw__bag - Nope, Malcolm in the middle is shit in my book and I wouldn't know the episode you're on about. Sorry
(Kip, Mon 4 Aug 2008, 16:08, closed)

My Uncle
in Canada 'invested' in a field twenty three years ago. Said field is full of full sized Christmas trees now, and he just sits at the gate come xmas, lets people cut their own tree, and collects $25 as they leave.
Good deal, but did take nearly a quarter of a century for him to turn a profit.
(w4I4q1O1 was hard at work on, Mon 4 Aug 2008, 16:50, closed)