our daughter had a beautiful fruit basket sent to us with pears and apples. The two kinds of pears were awful.... they were very hard so we let them start to ripen at room temp our home is only around 68 all the time. after about a week still kinda hard but developing spots brown about as large as a nickel and qtr size, this was the Bosc ones the other yellow ones started getting little brwn places too. well I would cut all the brwn off and out and we finished the last two today some of them were hard some very soft spots and of course the brown stuff. Never again do we want fruit from your business. Her order was from Debbie Archuleta, Briarpatchplace, Colo Springs, CO, I am sure this basket was expensive and what a waste. of money. She felt like it was to late when I told her about it about 3weeks after Christmas. So I am letting you know we were very unhappy witih your pear basket. wish I would have thought to have taken a picture of them but didnt.