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Post by Rick Hillier on Jan 11, 2007 8:21:39 GMT -5
I checked out Kheens... he currently has two that are desirable to me, whereas Cooks had ten. I currently only have the dentate and typical forms and would like to expand this list.
I am rapidly losing hope that the Cooks shipment will arrive intact, as it is now 26 days in transit.
>>> Rick <<<
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Post by vraev on Jan 11, 2007 13:37:58 GMT -5
well try the B52 from keehns. U will not be disappointed.
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Post by Rick Hillier on Jan 11, 2007 14:58:39 GMT -5
I may just do that in the spring. The problem is that Cooks had some nice VFT clones, as well as several Drosera that I wanted that I haven't seen available in Canada. Still no package today, so I'm rapidly losing hope on this one. Sybil and I have pretty much agreed that Friday 12 Jan 2007 is d-day. This is really unfortunate, as I have had success with Cooks twice in the past for the most part. It will be interesting to see how Cooks will handle this one. I'll keep everyone informed here. Rick
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Post by insectivore on Jan 11, 2007 17:20:08 GMT -5
Hopefully everything will work out for you guy's... That always sucks when your waiting up on some plants and they take forever to get here and arrive half dead... I was checking them out yesterday he's selling them for 20$ Hopefully he'll bring the price down a bit... Cya
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Post by sdeering on Jan 11, 2007 23:49:29 GMT -5
If you get plants that are dead and are complaining to Cook give him a poke from me too. He said he would resend but I would have to pay for all the paper and shipping. It was winter at the time so I waited till spring, and in the meantime talked myself out of recontacting him.(didn't want to pay more for dead plants) any others that have had bad luck should speak up and we'll, well you can gang up on him.
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Post by Rick Hillier on Jan 12, 2007 10:14:34 GMT -5
If the plants arrive dead, I don't think I should have to pay additional fees to get the situation corrected. In my opinion, when a vendor accepts your payment [glow=red,2,300]IN ADVANCE [/glow] (had to check out that glowy text ), they also accept FULL responsibility to ensure that the shipment arrives intact. If a problem ensues, I would be willing to split the new shipping costs - that's fair I agreed to go the cheaper route and have it shipped by mail and they agreed to do so. The paperwork, though, should be their responsibility, as this was supposedly purchased to guarantee live arrival. In hind sight (always 100%, eh?), I should have had them ship the plants by courier... <sigh> >>> Rick <<<
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Post by lloyd on Jan 12, 2007 12:13:51 GMT -5
I don't want to apologize for Cook's, as I know nothing about them. However once I had a parcel delivered from England. It took way longer than I expected and I phoned the Post Office. They told me that there was no return address and it was returned as it was a security risk. (As if terrorists can't put a fake return address on a package.) The sender eventually got it back as it was insured and registered. He said that somebody at our end slapped a huge "RETURN TO SENDER" sticker over the return address. They also trashed the package so much that he couldn't even re-send it to me. I know he was honest as he refunded me the total cost of the item and S&H. So customs and the post office can mess up quite nicely on their own.
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Post by Rick Hillier on Jan 12, 2007 12:35:44 GMT -5
I can relate to post office and customs screwups big time... I have a few software programs on the market (some large, some small) and regularly ship internationally. I've seen what customs and the mail system can accomplish.
But, if one is to engage in a mail order business, one has to be prepared to accept the fact that this will happen on occasion and should also be prepared to remedy such problems at their cost. I know I do.
>>> Rick <<<
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Post by lloyd on Jan 12, 2007 14:14:19 GMT -5
I guess they don't care about unhappy customers. What we need is a central CP system like eBay where you could see people's feedback.
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Post by Rick Hillier on Jan 12, 2007 14:38:33 GMT -5
Well, Kim did call me yesterday (I wasn't there, but got a message on my machine). She did seem geniunely concerned and it appeared that she had done some serious checking to try to ascertain what happened.
It looks like it's mainly the fault of the postal system on this one, but the ultimate responsibility is largely on the sender if using the postal system in my opinion.
>>> Rick <<<
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Post by Rick Hillier on Jan 13, 2007 14:34:41 GMT -5
Just to keep everyone updated on this soap opera (we'll call it "As The Plants Die"), it turns out that the plants sat in customs for ten days waiting for the beaurocrats to get off of their butts and process them. They were released at 2:00 pm on Friday.
I guess that's what you get when you try to do things legitimately. Almost - and I repeat ALMOST wants to make one collect from the wild!
>>> Rick <<<
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Post by sdeering on Jan 13, 2007 15:34:06 GMT -5
Mine spent 10 days too. You might be luckey because of the low temps thay may not have rotted. On the otherhand they may have been froze. Good luck
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Post by Syble on Jan 14, 2007 12:00:50 GMT -5
sdeering...why'd ya have to type the last sentance... leave us our last hope!!! sib
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Post by PingKing on Jan 14, 2007 18:57:13 GMT -5
well keep the hopes up guys and girls they could still be alive.
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Post by sdeering on Jan 14, 2007 20:05:51 GMT -5
I said may.
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