Selling plants online

[socalledstar]

Hi dear friends,

I'm new here! Can you please help me and tell me whats the procedure for selling plants online (on ebay! ) do i need some specific certificate or i can just send them I'm mail?

Thank you so so much!

[DumbFalang]

Which country are you in and which country do you want to sell to?

[socalledstar]

From Thailand to USA or Australia? Is there any difference?

[Torrens54]

Well for starters, you might find the Australian Quarantine and Customs Departments would take a very dim view of ANY attempts

to send Plants into Australia.

Your products will be intercepted by Quarantine and Destroyed unless you are somehow,able to get a clearance on certain plants, which I rather doubt is going to happen but you can try.

Best of luck !

[xen]

Apart from quarantine , you will also get quite a few problems with plants left out on the tarmac in the hot sun then placed into the cold temperature of cargo holds , squashed and damaged plants from transit.and careless handling .

And what plants are there available in Thailand that are not available from the warmer climates of USA or Australia. You will be competing with a lot of very experienced players unless you choose and become an expert in a niche market yourself The cost of freighting single plants even by Post Office will be the same if not more than hundreds of plants .

There is also PBR (Plant Breeder Rights ) you will have to contend with paying royalties to the breeders who have developed the plants. A lot of paperwork involved there.

What would your returns policy be ?

Sorry to sound negative and they are not insurmountable problems but ones you should be aware of.

This is assuming you plan to send plants internationally - within Thailand some of these items may not apply .

Best of Luck.

Edited October 24, 2015 by xen

[cooked]

Seeds are ok and more difficult to get hold of abroad