Christmas Tree Rip Off.

[Mesterh]

How did they know who had your trees???

 

Just thinking the same!

 

Possibly an inside job.

 

[dent]

if your still looking for someone i have a mate at plumpton college that family runs a christmas tree farm i could get his number for u as he should be slightly cheaper

or google dig ur own christmas trees as they are an awefulo lot cheaper

[Guss109]

ha they not bad at tyrebagger lol £8 for a 3' pine

 

 

 

That will do me. I'm not even bothered about getting one but got to keep her happy

[Guss109]

Further along the a96 by glens of fouland there is a farmer selling standing trees at $20 each. From what I saw, trees up to 20ft available .You choose which one he cuts it for you and wraps it. his stand is next to morgan mcveighs shop.

 

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Cheers for that I might just go there and beat the queue at tyre bagger

[renewablejohn]

How did they know who had your trees???

 

Customers would put there tree outside the front door after christmas ready for collection and once collected I would just put a £10 note in an envelope and give to the customer or if the customer was out post it through the letter box. It really was all done on trust. All the rouge company did was collect the tree and if caught taking the tree would hand over £10 if not it was just stolen leaving me with lots of unhappy customers demanding deposit refunds on trees that had been stolen. As I said it worked perfectly well for 4 years with very happy honest customers who really appreciated a green alternative and looked after the trees really well. In the final year I should have put my prices up as I had more customers who did not buy into the green aspect of the rental scheme but just saw it as a cheap alternative to normal cut off christmas trees resulting in trees not being watered.

I still think there is a market but I dont as yet have the answer on how to do it without being ripped off.

[skyhuck]

Customers would put there tree outside the front door after christmas ready for collection and once collected I would just put a £10 note in an envelope and give to the customer or if the customer was out post it through the letter box. It really was all done on trust. All the rouge company did was collect the tree and if caught taking the tree would hand over £10 if not it was just stolen leaving me with lots of unhappy customers demanding deposit refunds on trees that had been stolen. As I said it worked perfectly well for 4 years with very happy honest customers who really appreciated a green alternative and looked after the trees really well. In the final year I should have put my prices up as I had more customers who did not buy into the green aspect of the rental scheme but just saw it as a cheap alternative to normal cut off christmas trees resulting in trees not being watered.

I still think there is a market but I dont as yet have the answer on how to do it without being ripped off.

 

I'm sure the trees could now be micros chipper (much like a pet) that would enable you to prove they are yours.

[Hodge]

The first word of that video's title is pretty worrying!!!!!!

 

Ha,ha. Well spotted.

[Matthew Storrs]

I'm sure the trees could now be micros chipper (much like a pet) that would enable you to prove they are yours.

 

Or just ask the customers to leave it round the back out of site.

[VEG]

Or the deposit needs to be enough to cover the cost of the tree and is only refunded when some sort of ticket/token is handed back

[fencer]

trees are £6 per ft up here in cumbria