Calcium Montmorillonite Clay ??

artificial outdoor ponds. Some might find it "greedly" for you (and
me) to engage in excess like that when place problem here exists in
the world.

So true. :-( ~ jan

~Power to the Porg, Flow On!~

On Wed, 25 May 2005 08:16:50 -0700, ~ janj JJsPond.us
wrote:

===artificial outdoor ponds. Some might find it "greedly" for you (and
===me) to engage in excess like that when place problem here exists in
===the world.
===
===So true. :-( ~ jan
===
=== ~Power to the Porg, Flow On!~

Yes, especially for the prices the koi clay fetches, as compared to a
100# bag of it locally for under $6.00. Maybe I need to buy a few bags
and peddle it on ebay for a slight fee as well as my excess crop of
frog bit, water clover, duck weed, parrots feather , water snowflake
and sensitive fern..........which almost seems like a weekly chore to
keep under control anymore.

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Put some color in your cheeks...garden naked!

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What everyone also needs to remember is marketing, distribution and
perceived value. Golf ball makers are great at marketing the same
product under different names to different markets and very different
prices. The very same golf ball you buy at Wally World for $.25 may be
sold at a high end golf shop for $2.00 a pop. Same ball, different
package and very different marketing techniques.
While the Wally world ball may get no marketing, the high end ball may
be sponsoring a televised golf tournament. It also has a much nicer
package. But the biggest factor is that folks at the high end golf
store aren't there to buy 25 cent golf balls and they won't.

I'm not defending overpriced resellers (I've seen the same items vary in
price by factors of 3 or more), but you are talking very low volumes and
a niche market. To market a bag of clay to Koi folks is a much
different thing than marketing to cat lovers.

Mark B.

"mark Bannister" wrote in message
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I'm not defending overpriced resellers (I've seen the same items vary in
price by factors of 3 or more), but you are talking very low volumes and
a niche market. To market a bag of clay to Koi folks is a much
different thing than marketing to cat lovers.

Mark B.
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Marketing? The worst case I ever saw was the jeans a "snob" friend of mine
bought at the Mall some time ago. She's too good to shop at Wally-World.
She feels the shops at the Mall have better "quality" since they're so
expensive. She paid $49.99 for a pair of jeans that looked very familiar to
me. I checked my stock of jeans and sure enough - I had the same exact pair
and paid $16.99 for them. Only the label was different and in a different
place. We could find no other difference.

The prices of things for ornamental fish hobbyists are obscene........

McKoi.... the frugal ponder...
EVERYONE: "Please check people's headers for forgeries
before flushing." NAMES ARE BEING FORGED.
Do not feed the trolls.
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