RE: [Aroid-l] Mini rant

From: "danny wilson" <mudwasp_ at hotmail.com> on 2004.11.04 at 06:42:11(12341) there are a few people who put up pictures along with their auctions of plants that are not the ones advertised. there was one seller selling what they said was a "huge" dracunculus vulgaris tuber. the real tuber was 2 inches across and they had pictures of A. konjac up. you have to love that! >From: "Harry Witmore" >Reply-To: Discussion of aroids >To: "'Discussion of aroids'" >Subject: RE: [Aroid-l] Mini rant >Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 17:52:42 -0500 > >I agree with Michael on this. If you are selling anything anywhere, >marketing is one of the aspects and we all know that marketing is not always >based on the absolute truth. So, I don't see any problem using the word rare >for something as long as the picture is not deceiving. I have purchased many >things from many people on Ebay and it's pretty easy to tell those that are >trying to sell and be honest and those that are not. So, I think if you have >issues with what folks do on eBay you have an up hill battle and selling >Aroids is a pretty small part of the problem. >I imagine that some of the tubers we sale here as rare are eaten as food >elsewhere so where do you draw the line. Leave it up to each buyer to make >up his or her mind as to what is rare to them. > +More >________________________________________ >From: aroid-l-bounces@gizmoworks.com [mailto:aroid-l-bounces@gizmoworks.com] >On Behalf Of RAYMOMATTLA@cs.com >Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 8:28 PM >To: aroid-l@gizmoworks.com >Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] Mini rant > >A plant that grows an unusually large, sometimes grotesque, sometimes >phallic, most times very beautiful inflorescence....with a solitary umbrella >like leaf that can get as tall or taller than a man.....that is by most >people's standards bizarre. Seems like adding bizarre or rare in front of a >rather uncommon, unusual or out of the norm plant's name is a marketing >technique that works rather well and doesnt fool anyone. As long as the >plant being marketed is the plant you get I dont see a problem with it. > > >_______________________________________________ >Aroid-l mailing list >Aroid-l@gizmoworks.com >http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l Find the music you love on MSN Music. Start downloading now! _______________________________________________ Aroid-l mailing list Aroid-l@gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l

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