From: hermine <hermine at endangeredspecies.com>
on 2012.02.22 at 16:00:58(22579)
At 09:26 PM 2/21/2012, you wrote:
I wanted to ask this group a
somewhat OT question because there are lots
of heavy eBay users here. I discovered this seller
(
http://stores.ebay.com/7servant7/) who has so very many questionable,
if not outright fraudulent listings. (See the rainbow rose seeds as an
example of the worst offense, item 160733406329).
I share your pain. the problem with that ROSE is she says the growers
inject dye into the stems, so anyone with an IQ approaching body
temperature KNOWS this is not a real normal flower but one which has been
manipulated. as for the photoshop colours, I dunno. what caused my shortz
to burst into flame was seed of MOSO BAMBOO, since I am a BAMBOO DEITY
and really, I have not heard of MOSO flowering in the USA EVER EVER. this
does not mean it could not have happened, but growing bamboo from seed is
a dicey proposition and also when a specific species of bamboo flowers it
nearly always (and there are some exceptions of which MOSO is NOT one of
them)....anyway, that species flowers and dies and is replaced by its
seedlings. this flowering is WORLDWIDE. the bamboo people keep watch on
bamboo for flowering the way geologists watch the San Andreas
fault.
Now when Big Herm sees something wonky in the Sansevieria word on the Bay
of E, she writes to the seller and says, you are making a big mistake,
the name is wrong, I wrote THE BAMBOO BOOK and I am telling you this is a
wrong name and you should not be selling this plant under this name and
also it is worth about $15.00 and not $250.
I have no idea if this has been effective. some sellers have written back
and suggested to what location I should go. Others HAVE corrected names.
as I work through her lists, I see she is offering seeds of maple
cultivars which do not come true from seed, they are propagated as
grafts.
this is annoying
Japanese Bonsai Seeds "Black Pine- P. Mikawa"
since you only get a bonsai like this after years of doing what bonsai
growers do, a subject on which many thick books have been written, and in
which I have taken classes at the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens, an amazing
repository of "living national treasure" bonsai given by the
Japanese government to that facility.
I notice she gets 99.6% positive feedback. I know a goniff who gets 100%
feedback. I have no explanation for this.
Now we all remember those Burpee and other seed catalogs which came in
the mail with their hyper colour gravure illustrations, so hyping the
colour is nothing new.
I feel that as a life goal, shutting this seller down is unworthy of your
efforts.
HOWEVER by telling everyone on your plant lists about her and asking them
to spread the word and never buying anything....frankly I do not see how
she makes any money, she is clearly reselling seed purchased from others.
the nightmare of packing numbers of seeds and getting them to the post
office must be HORRIBLE!
It would be nice to find her real name and google her.
I occasionally look at Sansevierias when I think it is time for me to
have a cranial bleed. I see variegated plants in which the variegation is
chemically induced and all kinds of made up fanciful names. and they are
now being grown in the pacific rim and names are proliferating like
fleas.
hermine
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