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Re: Padre pio nursery
Posted: January 3rd, 2012, 11:54 am
by chrisatrocky
Well I cant complain about the Bonsai nurseries around my place, there is none, clsest one is 700km away. I think you people are spoilt. When I get to a bonsai nursery, which is about twice a year if I'm lucky, and I see a stock tree I want and the price sounds right I get it. Having to ask a price doesn't come into it. If I do ask for a price it also give me the oppertunity to haggle a bit. I find most bonsai nursery people are in the trade, firstly for the love of bonsai and secondly the money.
chris
Re: Padre pio nursery
Posted: January 3rd, 2012, 1:05 pm
by steve_84
I might go and have a look at the place on thursday. I have being drivingg past it every time I go to ray's, but have never bothered to drop in.
Re: Padre pio nursery
Posted: January 3rd, 2012, 1:11 pm
by Bougy Fan
OK guys this thread has gone on for long enough. A reminder from "The spirit and intent of ausbonsai"
Complaints about a business
When this occurs, the poster is usually quite fired up and emotional. Often the customer is now out to cause as much damage as possible to the business with the mission that they are "fully justified" (their words) and "simply stating facts" (their words) about the business.
This may be the case .. or not. There are many sides to any story. The point is that AusBonsai is not the appropriate place to resolve the issue. Go to the Department of Fair Trading in your state and do it there.
Choose not to, and end up in hot water. As soon as you flame a business, you'll usually get supporters of the business come out in defense and question your behaviour and motives. People interested in the discussion will seek more information from you. It soon descends into an argument containing many and varied versions of the truth and everybody goes home unhappy.
It never ends well for anybody.
The business is damaged, the poster now has a stigma in the forum (and now can't deal with many nursery's because they know what will happen if they cross this customer - their business will get dragged through the mud.)
And of course, there's also the situation when the poster does not really have a complaint, but is simply a competitor or naive associate of a business who thinks the way to get more business is to degrade the competition.
A simple I recommend or don't recommend this nursery is sufficient. If you don't like the business practices of a particular business either take it up with the owner or don't shop there.
Tony
Re: Padre pio nursery
Posted: January 3rd, 2012, 1:50 pm
by coocarch
Hey,
I went to the Padre Pio Bonsai Nursery about a week and a half ago (Nick will probably remember me).
What I wanted to say was that some of you are right about his website, there definitely is too much information about his religion and so on (no offence meant by that) and I think that might be what is losing you some of the customers.
Your nursery was the first one I went to, and it is definitely fantastic! There are wonderful stock trees and the prices aren't as high as I had expected. I managed to find a forest style trident-maple for only $25! I was thrilled with the price! I work a the local supermarket so I don't have thousands of dollars to spend on a hobby, but the tree I got was amazing for the asking price.
Some of you are right about the lack of price tags. All in all though, it is a good nursery to visit in the area. I also reckon that changing the name of the nursery is what lost you most of your popularity.
But like I said on the 23/12/11, YOU NEED TO UTILIZE FREE ADVERTISING! Go list yourself on GumTree, and also get yourself listed on white pages because it took me a while to find this thread...
Sorry if I sound like a dick or anything, I'm not trying to be offensive.
Regards, Coocarch
Re: Padre pio nursery
Posted: January 3rd, 2012, 2:03 pm
by FlyBri
Bougy Fan wrote:OK guys this thread has gone on for long enough... If you don't like the business practices of a particular business either take it up with the owner or don't shop there.
Thanks Tony! I couldn't agree more.
