A full riped permission common or fuji is red and soft to the point you can't pick it up!

I just got some persimmons.
Sweet persimmons... ripe soft juicy perfection... at only $10 for a 9kg box!
A nice mix of ripeness variations in this box, I'll be able to stagger consumption for no wastage too

I could drip feed you some more teasing tidbits, but I think I won't, I'll just answer some other questions that had been hinted at in this thread:

The ones I got are the Fuyu non-astringent variety, which is orange rather than red when ripe.  Can be going soft when still having green parts on the fruit, these must be the same type you got for free, Rawgasm!

If you need to ripen persimmons, put them with an apple or banana, but not for too long - these fruits are very sensitive to the Etheline gases, so 24 hours is all you need!   Also... persimmons store better at room temperature than at fridge temperature (they keep for longer times), which is interesting and somewhat counter-intuitive!

And finally....
where is it that you can get 9kg of yummy persimmons in Melbourne for just $10?
Do you already know where?
Do you want to know where?
I do!
Well now, lets share the information then
...You go driving up Monbulk Rd between Mt Evelyn and Silvan, then stop at the berry farm on your right!!
/gasp!!

They also had boxes of plums for $10, and some of the best chestnuts I had seen in a while for $4.50/kg.  And a nice array of flavoured vinegars - raspberry, blackberry, etc. Got a bottle for $4 yay!  Great place, glad I saw the sign out front advertising those persimmons and plums

I'm so glad to see a thread about persimmons because they are my favorite thing at the moment.  I buy the vanilla variety, which you can eat even when they're still relatively hard - not as crunchy as an apple, but not all pudding-soft like the astringent types.  Lately I've been having lots of mono-fruit lunches of persimmons.  They are exactly what I want when I'm reeeeaaallly hungry, for some reason.  BUT a few weeks ago I made the mistake of taking persimmons from 2 different baskets at my local organic.  I got them home and realized that some were vanilla and some were astringent - yes, I discovered this the hard way, by taking a big bite of one and experiencing painful, choking dryness throughout my whole mouth!  I had to cut tiny slices off of each one and test them before eating.  The astringent ones are still sitting in a paper bag, out of sight, ripening until they are mushy so I can make a nice smoothie with them.

And despite that horrible experience, I still love persimmons!