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<blockquote data-quote="Alastair" data-source="post: 11430" data-attributes="member: 13"><p>Agreed. A few days ago I was talking to a honey packer who has 5 shops in China. I asked him why the price of manuka has gone down, he said the Chinese just are not that interested in paying big bucks for it any more, they have had to drop their shop prices in China considerably. </p><p></p><p>I asked him why, he said he honestly could not fully answer that but he suspected a combination of the Chinese economy having some rough patches, and bad publicity from the fake manuka we were selling them. That of course prior to our government intervening to stop that, but the damage was done.</p><p></p><p>To get someone to pay a hundred bucks for a jar that is really only worth five bucks, there has to be a good story and the idea it is really something special. Word gets out most of the product is fake, that's going to kill the buzz. And the price and the volume.</p><p></p><p>Only thing our govt. did wrong was not act several years earlier, we might still be riding the wave. But of course the real blame lies with those selling manuka honey that was 90% something else. </p><p></p><p>I do recall back in the day out of curiosity, paying huge bucks in the supermarket for a tiny jar of manuka so I could give it the taste test. Tasted just like clover, funny that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alastair, post: 11430, member: 13"] Agreed. A few days ago I was talking to a honey packer who has 5 shops in China. I asked him why the price of manuka has gone down, he said the Chinese just are not that interested in paying big bucks for it any more, they have had to drop their shop prices in China considerably. I asked him why, he said he honestly could not fully answer that but he suspected a combination of the Chinese economy having some rough patches, and bad publicity from the fake manuka we were selling them. That of course prior to our government intervening to stop that, but the damage was done. To get someone to pay a hundred bucks for a jar that is really only worth five bucks, there has to be a good story and the idea it is really something special. Word gets out most of the product is fake, that's going to kill the buzz. And the price and the volume. Only thing our govt. did wrong was not act several years earlier, we might still be riding the wave. But of course the real blame lies with those selling manuka honey that was 90% something else. I do recall back in the day out of curiosity, paying huge bucks in the supermarket for a tiny jar of manuka so I could give it the taste test. Tasted just like clover, funny that. [/QUOTE]
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