Hudson Valley Seed Company
Accord, NY 12404 845 204 8769
hudsonvalleyseed.com
Business model #1: Convince your customers to use 10 times as
much of your product as is actually optimal.
Think toothpaste commercials.
Business model #2: Steal from your customers. The ones that notice, you apologize to and
give them their money back; that ones that don’t notice, you keep the
money.
Business model #3: Do any fucking thing to maximize your
profits, there are plenty of new marks out there for you to scam tomorrow if
you lose a customer today.
Dear Hudson Valley: I’m trying to decide if you are # 1, #2, #3,
or all of the above. Please explain to me which of these
descriptions of your company is correct.
On your package
instructions (Silver Cloud Cannellini) you suggest that I plant your beans 1
inch apart (plants that are advertized as being 20 inches high and should be 24
inches apart at maturity). You suggest that I thin the unneeded plantlets. Either you expect less than 7% germination (abysmal
to say the least), or you want me to throw away 92% of the seeds I bought from
you after they’ve sprouted. That’s
assuming that I start with 24 inch rows (one inch apart if literally adhered to
would use up your package of 150 seeds up in a bed 12 inches by 12 inches,
meaning I should thin down to ONE plant).
Now before you laugh, or write me off as a sucker deserving of your scam because I’m stupid, please consider that I’m an experienced gardener of more than 50 years, and that I have a masters degree in biology.
What I’m not is someone who will follow your business model no matter whether it is #1, #2, or #3. So if it isn’t one of those, stop suggesting that your customers waste seed like tooth paste.
Really, one inch apart; on what planet?
P.S. you needn't thank me for the free publicity.
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