The website is nowhere to be found I see, so all I can do is rely on reports
that wholesale these days is a minimum 10,000 plant order.


I'm pretty sure that isn't accurate. Coincidentally, I haven't been
able to obtain a list recently, perhaps they know we don't buy that many
plants... But, I've seen plenty of OZ plants for sale in the last few
weeks that I know weren't purchased in 10,000 lots. These growers would
be lucky to have 2000 plants total. Perhaps 10,000 is a really good
price break point, but I doubt it is the minimum.

OZ supplies almost every major Paph retailer I know of to some degree- in many
cases totally, so given the enormous inventory they have I can understand why
they would avoid direct retail.



Indeed. And their business model is a good one, as far as I can
see. Tempts me to try a similar thing, except that my climate is
unsuitable, labor isn't exactly cheap here, and I lack a zillion acres
of growing space... *grin*

Rob


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Rob's Rules: http://www.msu.edu/~halgren
1) There is always room for one more orchid
2) There is always room for two more orchids
2a. See rule 1
3) When one has insufficient credit to purchase
more orchids, obtain more credit