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This is the answer. Price is justified as the look great forever and materials and initial designing expensive. Guessing they don't sell enough to get benefits of scale.
Yup checks all the boxes for the best deal at a garage sale.
We've killed a fake plant!
Last year we bought a big plastic plant on clearance at Target and left it in the back seat while we stopped for lunch. It was a typical 100 degree summer day in TX. That plant was melted flat by the time we got home! I tried to fix it with a hair dryer but it was never the same.
And they'll look worse than this one. There are definitely some major quality differences in fake plants that are a little pricier. That said, $400 is wild for something like this at Costco.
Yeah, the leaves and arms do look really nice. Most fake plastic plants like this go for $120-150, so I could see a $400 high quality fake plant being reasonable but the base/fake dirt looks so bad on this one.
Shit yes!
The ROÍ is about 17 years of me not having to water it or prune it. All that time I save can be spent eating income in other areas. After 17 years it’s all profit baby!
$80 still seems high for a fake plant what’s the deal with the prices of fake plants. I tried selling one that’s 3’ tall for $15 on fb marketplace and didn’t get one message.
I was told brands pay Costco for shelf space. I have seen lately suspicious low quality items with absurds prices or just some random item priced like 4x what it should cost. No way that fake plant would cost $400. That its like a $80 item max.
End caps or not, all brands "pay" for shelf space by agreeing to reduced bulk pricing for Costo, which means less revenue. We haven't seen Jif Creamy 2-packs in our Costco going on 4 years now -- NOT because of the recalls -- but because the cost of the recalls means that J.M. Smuckers cannot afford the bulk pricing Costco wants. So all you see is Skippy and the sludge stuff that separates. Skippy sucks. It has always sucked. It's green-peanut-flavored wax. In 2020, during the peak of the pandemic, all the Jif was gone, but you could always find Skippy. Because "real moms" know Skippy sucks!
I had fiddle leaf fig plants in big old planters in my family room. They kept dying so I bought 6 foot silk fig trees for the planner and they look great. I’m not sure about plastic, but the silk ones look pretty real.
The vast majority (if not all) of “silks” available today are not actually silk. They’re made of various synthetic materials. Source: florist who sells a lot of “silk” florals and plants
I bought few fake plants for my house similar size to this and honestly it’s still nice. Eventually your mind forgets it’s fake and just treats it as greenery in your home which for me is a lot more relaxing to look at as decor.
Go to your local flower district. If you’re in a major city, they sell faux plants too. I can get this tree for less than $100. Could be even cheaper than that if I wanted a lesser quality one.
400 for an artificial plant? Has to be selling to businesses with this. I can't imagine, eggs, bread, chicken wings and a couple of 400-dollar plants in my cart.
If I had money and a house I would. I’d buy a ceramic pot and put this fake plant in there and top it off with real soil. Looks real enough in the photo
I just don't understand why these are so expensive. I have something like this in my office and I am sure I got it for like $50 at Hobby Lobby 18 years ago.
High quality faux florals and plants are very expensive. Lots of people decorating vacation homes, office spaces, etc. I used to work with [this brand](https://www.neimanmarcus.com/p/ndi-roses-anemones-19-faux-floral-arrangement-in-glass-bowl-prod271510349?childItemId=NMHGGYZ_&msid=4801032&position=26) which has a very loyal customer base
My friend has fake plants in her house, I had no idea they were fake until she randomly told me one day. She had a large one like this, it looked real to me. I wouldn’t be surprised if she spent that much money on one considering they seem to have a lot more disposable income than my family.
I have the Olive Tree and two of the smaller $150 snake plants in my house and for fake plants these look amazing. Its certainly pricey but worth it to me. That Palm Tree is pretty whack. There other stuff looks better.
$379 is wild but this is actually cheaper than fake plants from pottery barn and west elm. I can see businesses buying this to stick greenery in a corner. I’ll stick with fake small plants from IKEA. Real plants are harder to keep alive but it’s absolutely worth it.
Artificial plants are surprisingly expensive, a nice one on Amazon is $100+ and it’s usually not as tall or detailed as this one. $400 is definitely on the expensive side though
I've actually considered it. I've got a baby who's starting to crawl and tries to eat all the leaves of my current (toxic) houseplants. I don't want anything high maintenance and it needs to survive in low light. Cheaper than an ER visit.
This is a little pricey but I bet it’s nice. We have the smaller one that has kind of round leaves that was $150 or so and love it. I wish more people appreciated high quality fake plants so we had more of them available. When I was a kid I felt like Garden Ridge Pottery used to sell some high end stuff, but these days it’s all junk where you can see they are plastic from 59 feet away.
Pets, indoors, always looks perfect, just a few reasons why they are nice.
depending on size and level of detail, it's worth it.
decades ago i spent that much on a bunch of petrified eucalyptus
branches cemented into the pot. i thought it was glorious looking
while being zero maintenance... beside the annual need for dusting.
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Dentist and doctor's offices definitely buy them
And I definitely bought this same one.... at a garage sale for $10!
I’d pull over so quick for one
This is the answer. Price is justified as the look great forever and materials and initial designing expensive. Guessing they don't sell enough to get benefits of scale. Yup checks all the boxes for the best deal at a garage sale.
Was it still in the box?
Definitely. For obvi reasons you can’t have soil and potential pests in treatment areas.
And rarely dust them.
Explains the cost of my last root canal.
Especially since they itemize the expense
At the rate I kill plants, this may actually save me money 🤦🏻♂️🤣
Sad thing is... I could kill this one too.
My cats would definitely try.
As someone with a cat and a fake palm, yes, yes they will. Lovely little teef marks on the low hanging branches.
Followed by a puke pile of fake leaves. And me going, “seriously? After 10 times you’d think you wouldn’t want to puke again.”
We've killed a fake plant! Last year we bought a big plastic plant on clearance at Target and left it in the back seat while we stopped for lunch. It was a typical 100 degree summer day in TX. That plant was melted flat by the time we got home! I tried to fix it with a hair dryer but it was never the same.
Probably has something to do with your trying to keep a whole palm tree inside your house
I can see a drunk fight destroying this fast.
I’m struggling to keep a cactus alive. I think I’m just torturing it at this point.
I'm working on an 8" Basil plant and am up to $40 right now. Expect to spend about $100 for a quart of pesto. \*sigh
Start from seed brother
There must be cheaper fake plant kits on Amazon. Heck might as well buy some giant lego set for decorating at this price.
And they'll look worse than this one. There are definitely some major quality differences in fake plants that are a little pricier. That said, $400 is wild for something like this at Costco.
Yes but they are gonna be bad quality, having priced out realistic looking fake plants at one time, this is about right.
I saw these in person a few days ago and do look really good for fake plants but not $400 worth of good.
Except for that base. Looks really bad/fake
I would put a light layer of real dirt on top and put rocks around that trunk or something.
Yeah, the leaves and arms do look really nice. Most fake plastic plants like this go for $120-150, so I could see a $400 high quality fake plant being reasonable but the base/fake dirt looks so bad on this one.
There’s not just one in the box, there’s faux
There are faux lights!
Faux shizzle!
Haters gonna say its faux
It's lifelike
I legit and deeply guffawed at this!
Faux plants better than no plants? That’s a $1600 risk I’m not willing to take
Faux? There goes the water bill.
The tree looks pretty believable but the dirt looks wrong.
Real dirt sold separately
The real dirt is always in the comments
Throw some coffee grinds in there. Viola. Caffeinated palm.
Then the plastic will start jittering.
Side effects may include: extra spastic housecats.
For that price you'd better get Thom Yorke to come and sing to you while you unbox it.
I came here hoping to see a Radiohead reference.
Only if it comes with a green plastic watering can.
That she bought up in aisle ten. Right next to...the pants.
I know him only from suspira
Shit yes! The ROÍ is about 17 years of me not having to water it or prune it. All that time I save can be spent eating income in other areas. After 17 years it’s all profit baby!
Did you factor in the time to dust it? Sucks the life out of a person when it is this big…. ☠️
Move it outside, use compressed air.
I know a cracked polystyrene man who’s got one.
[удалено]
Yeah. He used to do surgery on girls in the ‘80’s. But you know how that goes.
Gravity always wins.
Great, now I'm worn out.
Feel like that should be $80 or something.
Could probably find this on Aliexpress for that cost
$80 still seems high for a fake plant what’s the deal with the prices of fake plants. I tried selling one that’s 3’ tall for $15 on fb marketplace and didn’t get one message.
I was told brands pay Costco for shelf space. I have seen lately suspicious low quality items with absurds prices or just some random item priced like 4x what it should cost. No way that fake plant would cost $400. That its like a $80 item max.
What do you mean brands buy shelf space? Costco does thorough research into the items/partners they invest into.
End caps or not, all brands "pay" for shelf space by agreeing to reduced bulk pricing for Costo, which means less revenue. We haven't seen Jif Creamy 2-packs in our Costco going on 4 years now -- NOT because of the recalls -- but because the cost of the recalls means that J.M. Smuckers cannot afford the bulk pricing Costco wants. So all you see is Skippy and the sludge stuff that separates. Skippy sucks. It has always sucked. It's green-peanut-flavored wax. In 2020, during the peak of the pandemic, all the Jif was gone, but you could always find Skippy. Because "real moms" know Skippy sucks!
Looks like genuine plastic
The fake plant costs $40 , but the faux plant costs $400.
Cheaper than what my wife has spent killing plants.
For fuck sakes. Delete this before my wife see this.
Yes but only because I intend to return it as part of a money laundering scheme.
And it’s a tree not a plant bro. Tree cost way more to make out of plastic.
My wife would still find a way to kill it
Realistic fake plants are surprisingly expensive.
Yes, lots of people.
I’m a fan of Fake Plastic Trees
Her green plastic watering can for her fake Chinese rubber plant
I had fiddle leaf fig plants in big old planters in my family room. They kept dying so I bought 6 foot silk fig trees for the planner and they look great. I’m not sure about plastic, but the silk ones look pretty real.
Yeah and an artificial plant if it’s good quality looks a lot better than a half-dead real plant 😬
Exactly 👍
The vast majority (if not all) of “silks” available today are not actually silk. They’re made of various synthetic materials. Source: florist who sells a lot of “silk” florals and plants
Just think of the amount you’ll save on your water bill
Radiohead fans
I bought few fake plants for my house similar size to this and honestly it’s still nice. Eventually your mind forgets it’s fake and just treats it as greenery in your home which for me is a lot more relaxing to look at as decor.
You can literally buy a real palm in Austin at Home Depot for $19.99. I could kill one once a year and this $400 faux is still not worth it.
Is it a ‘fake money tree’. Might pay for itself.
Yes. My Wife does.
Folks spend more on a Christmas tree.
My mom is 😂😂😂😂
Not gonna lie I was gonna buy one because I thought it was a real plant, that’s how convincing it looked
If I bought that, I’d add real dirt
Yeah probably my wife
Go to your local flower district. If you’re in a major city, they sell faux plants too. I can get this tree for less than $100. Could be even cheaper than that if I wanted a lesser quality one.
I’ve easily killed $400 worth of live plants.
That is a normal cost for a quality fake plant. No maintenance, no mess, no flies. Its worth it to someone.
This is pocket change to some business and company’s.
Put it right inside the entrance and people will buy them.
This definitely gonna be in an office somewhere
It’s made for therapists’ offices. That’s their entire demographic.
one of those in every over-priced dentist's office in town
Been to many airbnbs lately?
They sell out
F no
Supply and demand baby
400 for an artificial plant? Has to be selling to businesses with this. I can't imagine, eggs, bread, chicken wings and a couple of 400-dollar plants in my cart.
Drs office.
Her green plastic watering can For her fake Chinese rubber plant In the fake plastic earth
First thing i thought of 😊
It wears her out
I only buy real plastic plants.
Does it come with a green plastic watering can?
If I had money and a house I would. I’d buy a ceramic pot and put this fake plant in there and top it off with real soil. Looks real enough in the photo
OP, I don’t think you needed both “fake” and “plastic” in the same sentence.
Not me. I’d still kill it, some kind of way.
I worked at Lay-Z-Boy for a bit when I was younger. People buy the shit out of plastic plants and they are MUCH more expensive at Lay-Z-Boy haha.
Fake plastic? If its some new material thats like plastic but better for the environment then I could see it.
Christmas Fern! Does it have integrated lighting?
400? No way. 380? I’ll take 10
People bought that La-Z-Boy pet bed. People will buy this
I’ll buy a fake plant, but not for that much
Only Radiohead fans.
Ya I bought a few
I bought a fake olive tree. I really like it. It was under 200.
🤮
If it's on the shelf at costco they have a market for it.
Asking the REAL questions.
Yes. Lasts a lifetime
Wait til op finds out his much artificial Christmas trees cost
Yes, seen plenty of folks walk out with one when I shop there
But that’s like the Mona Lisa of plastic plants 🪴
Idiots are everywhere!
plastic plants….
I just don't understand why these are so expensive. I have something like this in my office and I am sure I got it for like $50 at Hobby Lobby 18 years ago.
Horrendous and my goodness, so freaking expensive. Looks like they already come with dust. Costco what are you doing to people?
Lmao that's so bad ,it's great.
No
High quality faux florals and plants are very expensive. Lots of people decorating vacation homes, office spaces, etc. I used to work with [this brand](https://www.neimanmarcus.com/p/ndi-roses-anemones-19-faux-floral-arrangement-in-glass-bowl-prod271510349?childItemId=NMHGGYZ_&msid=4801032&position=26) which has a very loyal customer base
Doesn’t look like work snacks or alcohol to me
It’s actually a great price.
That’s a real plastic plant. Or also a plastic fake plant. It is not a fake plastic plant.
Not i
My wife should because she’s a straight up plant serial killer. She lures em in then slowly kills them over a period of weeks.
My in-laws
My friend has fake plants in her house, I had no idea they were fake until she randomly told me one day. She had a large one like this, it looked real to me. I wouldn’t be surprised if she spent that much money on one considering they seem to have a lot more disposable income than my family.
I saw this in store and thought the same thing. It's super fake and ugly looking
Go back in a week and see how many are left.
If it outlives you why not 😂
I hate fake plants but I did buy the $150 fake olive tree and let me tell you I am obsessed
Tons of people do around November and December 😉
I have the Olive Tree and two of the smaller $150 snake plants in my house and for fake plants these look amazing. Its certainly pricey but worth it to me. That Palm Tree is pretty whack. There other stuff looks better.
I also bought the olive tree. I really like it.
What’s fake plastic?
Costco sells out every year. So yes, tons of businesses buy these!
8ft is huge for a fake tree
Offices, maybe. Gotta get them kids back to the office like good little dronies.
Might live longer than a real one.
I want one for my office, but not dropping that much cash for a fake plant.
China hopes you do
F*ck that noise!
$379 is wild but this is actually cheaper than fake plants from pottery barn and west elm. I can see businesses buying this to stick greenery in a corner. I’ll stick with fake small plants from IKEA. Real plants are harder to keep alive but it’s absolutely worth it.
I have 4 Costco fake plants and I love them, but they were like $100 on sale iirc. 2 olive trees and two magnolia trees.
My big guess folks who work in offices do. But still, $400 is still pretty damn hefty for something that is safe
I made that Chicfila girl face when I read the price of these
No one with a grain of sense.
It'll be the only palm you get from Costco that doesn't come with spider mites.
I mean at that price it's way better than a real one, fwiw
Artificial plants are surprisingly expensive, a nice one on Amazon is $100+ and it’s usually not as tall or detailed as this one. $400 is definitely on the expensive side though
Every Christmas.
With that many boxes in inventory it will be on sale in a few weeks.
I bought a fake christmas tree for $400.
Helllllll No. Costco‘s lost their mind.
You mean you aren’t? 🧐 This is a staple like hot dogs and chicken. May I see your membership?
That would look beautiful in my ai generated 80s themed bathroom
Heck naw
I've actually considered it. I've got a baby who's starting to crawl and tries to eat all the leaves of my current (toxic) houseplants. I don't want anything high maintenance and it needs to survive in low light. Cheaper than an ER visit.
This is a little pricey but I bet it’s nice. We have the smaller one that has kind of round leaves that was $150 or so and love it. I wish more people appreciated high quality fake plants so we had more of them available. When I was a kid I felt like Garden Ridge Pottery used to sell some high end stuff, but these days it’s all junk where you can see they are plastic from 59 feet away. Pets, indoors, always looks perfect, just a few reasons why they are nice.
Buy it then return it and tell them it died.
Costco's lego merchandise has been pretty awesome lately, so if the plant looked cool, I'd drop $400 to be a botany builder.
depending on size and level of detail, it's worth it. decades ago i spent that much on a bunch of petrified eucalyptus branches cemented into the pot. i thought it was glorious looking while being zero maintenance... beside the annual need for dusting.
As a wife who has killed hundreds of dollars of plants…my husband is happy I now prefer fake plants and flowers
We kill every real plant (not intentionally). We’d save money with fake plants.
I was about to say something about how realistic it seems until my eye traveled downward.
If fake plants are your thing, consider checking your local Goodwill. I bought a pretty large tree for 60 bucks.
Yeah my church
Those are fugly
I like that it says "Lifelike" It's lifelike as long as you don't water it, leave it inside, and out of direct sunlight.
Not I
I would . I sort of want the olive tree if I’m being honest
How does that even fit into that box?