Parents jumping on New World Little Garden bandwagon push full set price over $70
The New World Little Garden collection craze has taken root.
The supermarket chain began the six-week promotion on September 7, giving away vegetable, herb and flower seedling kits with every $40 spent – so you’d have to spend $960 over six weeks to collect them all.
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The going rate for a full set of New World Little Garden seedlings at auction is currently about $70.
Kiwi parents committed to collecting the full catalogue have adopted a ‘work smarter not harder’ approach and founded numerous community Facebook groups to trade and on-sell excess seedlings of one type in exchange for the plants they don’t have.
Trade Me spokesperson Millie Silvester said the individual seedlings and sets are selling for “big bucks” online.
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“There is currently a full set of Little Garden seed pots onsite with a leading bid of $67.80,” she said. 138 people have saved the auction to their watchlist and it’s not due to close for another two days.
Just after New World launched Little Garden people began to search for the various seedlings in online marketplaces.
Last week, a full set of Little Garden seedlings sold for $72 after racking up almost 8,000 views. Interest in the promotion seems to be gaining momentum.
“In the last seven days we’ve seen 3,000 searches for Little Garden, that’s up 76 per cent on the week prior,” said Silvester.
“We typically see the number of listings for these items surge each time New World or Countdown release a new collectables range.”
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New World’s Little Garden promotion is back, after a three-year break.
When the first round of the promotion was nearing its end in 2016, full sets of the seedling kits were fetching more than $200 on Trade Me. The top price achieved was $210.
For context, the same set of plants could be purchased for just over $40 from a garden centre.
There are currently over 110 listings for the branded seedlings on Trade Me and the forces of free market capitalism are on full display.
Individual plants are being listed between $1 and $8 and others have been grouped into sets of three or 10 for varying prices between $10 and $20.
“Pester power is alive and well and it looks like many parents are willing to take the shortcut to fill their kid’s (or their own) seedling set,” said Silvester.
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Four-year-olds Rosemary Millar and Myla Olszewski pictured at Just Us Kids Preschool with their New World Little Garden pots in 2016.
New World head of marketing and customer experience Pippa Prain said millions of the seedling kits have been given away and the promotion is “more popular