Christmas Tree Prices & Profit Per Tree

How do you decide which tree to order?

By profit per minute, not by sticker price. Three numbers decide it: what the tree costs to order, what a customer pays for it, and how long it takes to leave the lot. The expensive tree with the bigger ticket is only better if those extra dollars arrive faster than the same cash would earning on a cheap tree that turns over three times.

This page is where those three numbers live for each tree. Rows are added as they are read off the live game — an empty row is unverified, not zero.

Tree reference table

Every column means something specific when you are comparing:

• Order cost — what leaves your balance when the tree arrives. This is the number that decides how much stock you can afford at once.
• Sell price — what a customer pays. Profit is this minus order cost; margin is profit divided by sell price.
• Stock capacity — how many of that tree the lot can hold. A high-margin tree with a tiny cap will not carry your income on its own.
• Unlock — the requirement before it can be ordered at all. Anything locked is irrelevant to your next purchase.

How to measure a tree yourself in five minutes

This is the same method used to fill the table, and you can run it on your own lot without waiting for an update here:

1. Note your cash balance before ordering.
2. Order a single tree and note the new balance. The difference is the order cost.
3. Sell that tree and note the balance again. The difference is the sell price.
4. Repeat once more to confirm the numbers are stable, then divide profit by how long the sale took.

Two repetitions matter: a first sale can be distorted by a customer who was already walking toward the lot.

Should you buy the cheapest tree or the best tree?

Cheapest, until you are no longer stock-limited. Early on, cash is the binding constraint, and a cheap tree you can order in bulk earns more per hour than a premium tree you can only afford one of. Once your shelves stay full through a restock cycle, the constraint moves to margin and the better tree wins.

This is the same reasoning as when to hire a worker: buy whichever purchase removes your current bottleneck, and ignore the rest until the bottleneck moves.

What about trees that only unlock later?

Locked trees are not a reason to stop investing in the current tier. Unlocks in tycoon games usually gate on lot progress, and progress comes from selling, so the fastest route to an unlock is running the tier you already have at full throughput. Spending cash to chase an unlock you cannot use yet just slows the whole curve.

Related

• How to play — the full loop these purchases sit inside.
• Worker costs — the other throughput lever.
• Upgrade order — what to buy once stock stops being the limit.