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"Organic Firewood" ☺

EMCSEMCS Member Posts: 4,063
edited September 2012 in General Discussion
"Organic Firewood"[:p]

My buddy sells firewood; he took half of it and labeled it as "organic" and managed to sell it at a 50% price increase. What vacuous marketing gimmick has worked for you



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  • tapwatertapwater Member Posts: 10,336 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    ..Guess I'm too honest for trickery.

    ..Edit: Even if it means fooling fools.
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  • guntech59guntech59 Member Posts: 23,188 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I amazed how he took advantage of idiots for personal gain.
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  • LaidbackDanLaidbackDan Member Posts: 13,142 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'm thinking organic bottled water would be a winner.
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  • tapwatertapwater Member Posts: 10,336 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by LaidbackDan
    I'm thinking organic bottled water would be a winner.


    ..No! Not that poison Hydrogen Dioxide..??[:o)]
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  • SoreShoulderSoreShoulder Member Posts: 3,148 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    It's kind of a ripoff because maybe the customers wanted wood grown without what they felt were hazardous chemicals.

    "well all the pesticides had a molecule of carbon, so it IS organic!"
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  • JamesRKJamesRK Member Posts: 25,670 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    When I was a teenager the old boy who owned the Curb Market on North Main Street Extension got a real deal on a truck load of the 5? boxes of SunMaid raisins.

    He put them in his store and marked them 5? per box. After about two or three weeks he sold one or two boxes. They weren't fast movers.

    On Friday he stacked them at the front of the store and put a big sign over them, "THREE DAYS ONLY, 2 BOXES 15?". He sold out that weekend.
    The road to hell is paved with COMPROMISE.
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  • p3skykingp3skyking Member Posts: 23,916 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Is that the kind of wood that grows out of the ground?
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  • jptatumjptatum Member Posts: 1,911 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Water is dihydrogen oxide.
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  • JustCJustC Member Posts: 16,056 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    thats all the wood you got?? son you are in trouble[}:)]
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  • tapwatertapwater Member Posts: 10,336 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by jptatum
    Water is dihydrogen oxide.


    ..Thanks for the correction. My point was that if you throw big words at some folks, they sound deadly. Got caught up in my own trap that time...[B)]
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  • owen219owen219 Member Posts: 3,799
    edited November -1
    I knew a merchant that always got a good laugh when he would mark items like 3 for 9.99 or .97 each and his usual customers would never catch it. He did not do it for the money he said he did it for his own amusement. He also felt it was fair because he had a high rate of obvious shop lifting.
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  • IAMAHUSKERIAMAHUSKER Member Posts: 2,479 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I used to manage a convenience food store. Mark an item at 25 cents a piece and they would not sell. Mark the same item 4/1.00 and they would fly off the shelf.
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  • MercuryMercury Member Posts: 7,840 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Close.......dihydrogen MONoxide.

    Merc

    quote:Originally posted by jptatum
    Water is dihydrogen oxide.
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  • tapwatertapwater Member Posts: 10,336 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Mercury
    Close.......dihydrogen MONoxide.

    Merc

    quote:Originally posted by jptatum
    Water is dihydrogen oxide.



    ..You get the idea. If they tell the sheeple that it's in their drinking water.....well, you get the point.
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  • FrancFFrancF Member Posts: 35,279 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My old domain name I sold. http://www.organicrockfarms.com/
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  • diver-rigdiver-rig Member Posts: 6,338 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    What's the problem?

    The wood he was selling wasn't man made,

    Thus it was organic.

    He wasn't lying.

    Just because people are complete morons is their own fault.
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  • Ned FallNed Fall Member Posts: 662 ✭
    edited November -1
    My mother had a solar powered clothes dryer for years?an outdoor clothes line.
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  • oldemagicsoldemagics Member Posts: 5,851 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    friend had a beat up old sofa some years back that he didnt want to pay to be rid of, so he sat it out front with a "free" sign
    it sat several weeks so we came up with an idea, put a new sign that read "rare antique davenport $1200"
    it was gone by morning!
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  • TxsTxs Member Posts: 17,809 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by diver-rig
    What's the problem?

    The wood he was selling wasn't man made,

    Thus it was organic.When speaking of horticulture organic refers to items grown with only natural fertilizers and pest controls.

    I agree it's funny, but the seller of this wood may be going a step beyond just luring in gullible buyers. If he's not aware of conditions from sapling stage he's actually misrepresenting his product.
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  • diver-rigdiver-rig Member Posts: 6,338 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Txs
    quote:Originally posted by diver-rig
    What's the problem?

    The wood he was selling wasn't man made,

    Thus it was organic.When speaking of horticulture organic refers to items grown with only natural fertilizers and pest controls.

    I agree it's funny, but the seller of this wood may be going a step beyond just luring in gullible buyers. If he's not aware of conditions from sapling stage he's actually misrepresenting his product.


    I see many definitions for organic.

    1 is of what you speak.

    Another is biology connected with, produced by, or obtained from a living thing.

    Trees are living things. Ergo organic.


    Another is chemistry, organic compounds contain carbon, and produce energy.


    That last one sound like firewood at all?

    Tree hugging, vegetarians that want everything organic can........
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