as promise,
this is an example of a selling session (dated 10/30/2018) in Vietnam, it will be boring to you.
But you get the juice of how orchids are selling over there .
I think all orchids over there are buying and selling freely (including from the forest) the only exception are the plants from very few "National Special Nature Preserve" is not permitted, everything else is normal business the way this lady in this youtube selling session mentioned whether where the plants coming from.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCxMdytiRwI
You can jump to the minute to see what I will translating some prices here :
-minute 2:15 that whole group of 6 or 7 bunches is 300,000 VND=12.85 USD
so it is about 2.00 dollar a bunch
-minute 11:40 the stick of 10 groups of plants is 220,000 VND =9.42 USD
-minute 17:45 the group of 6 different species 320,000 VND=13.71 USD
that is going to be sold as a combo 6 together, so 1 plant is about 2 dollar
-minute 20:00 those monster chunks (15 to 18 plants on it) 800,000 VND=34.27 dollar about 5 kg of plants or 33 lbs of plants .
