Galanthus winter 2009/2010

[Maggi Young]

Anthony, this is a recent govmt. document on plant  inspection fees etc:
http://www.oqps.gov.uk/legislation/ssi/ssi2008/ssi_20080153_en_1

 Then there are special CITES licence fees as well, I think

Why does a vision of Harpo and Grouch Marx come into my head when I read that? Plain English it isn't. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it would appear that it would cost £180 per batch of bulbs sent.

 That's the sum I thought, too...

[Martin Baxendale]

I see other mistakes also Martin. A man who has written a book on himself below his listing is selling a Galanthus green tipped lost label and Robin Hood. His photo for Robin Hood is an elwesii.

They could have been supplied wrong in the first place. I know someone who refuses to rename wrongly supplied snowdrops in the garden because that's what they were bought as. Even the best get it wrong. I saw Merlin for sale last year that had a single mark

I don't think anyone is likely to have been sent a poc by a genuine grower instead of Sibbertoft No. 2 by mistake, and I would have thought anyone who got it would pretty soon realise the mistake. I queried the photo and the seller said it was their own photo taken last year, but if you enlarge it, there seems to be some sort of watermark on the pic and the quality looks like it was taken off the web. This is the second listing of this item by this seller, the last one went for about £40. Fishy!

[mark smyth]

a fool and their money ... If these people are buying for the first time they will get their fingers burnt

I know someone who is buying up snowdrops but doesnt own the book.

Last week on of my photos was used to sell a snowdrop. When I queried it the seller said it was her own photo but. I told her it was my photo and gave her details of where and when it was taken. The reply was The photo orinated in Germany. I only allow people I know to use photos. One person adds links to my web site.

[Brian Ellis]

Perhaps ebay ought to pay the SRGC for its members policing their sales

[johnw]

That's the sum I thought, too...

Shhhh!  Ken reads these postings occasionally.

johnw

[Maggi Young]

That's the sum I thought, too...

Shhhh!  Ken reads these postings occasionally.

johnw

Not the snowdrop pages, surely?     

[Paddy Tobin]

That's the sum I thought, too...

Shhhh!  Ken reads these postings occasionally.

johnw

And if he read just how many snowdrops you got last year he would have even more to say.

Paddy

[Maggi Young]

And there was I thinking that Ken  ( who I have yet to meet ) would be a sensible sort of Croconut, with eyes only for the interesting plants.........

[Brian Ellis]

And if he read just how many snowdrops you got last year he would have even more to say.

Let's hope he didn't have to answer the door to the postman 'cos then he'd know

[johnw]

And there was I thinking that Ken  ( who I have yet to meet ) would be a sensible sort of Croconut, with eyes only for the interesting plants.........

Good instincts there Maggi.   True, a croconut-helleborenut-polygonatumnut-decidedly woodlandernut but no snowdropnut.  

johnw

[Maggi Young]

And if he read just how many snowdrops you got last year he would have even more to say.

Let's hope he didn't have to answer the door to the postman 'cos then he'd know

 I think that is why their frontdoor  has the largest post-box in the district.... specially installed so parcels can be snuck in quietly!!  

Good instincts there Maggi.   True, a croconut-helleborenut-polygonatumnut-decidedly woodlandernut but no snowdropnut. 

johnw

  I KNEW it! I'm a great judge of croconuttery! 

[johnw]

And if he read just how many snowdrops you got last year he would have even more to say.

Let's hope he didn't have to answer the door to the postman 'cos then he'd know

Brian   -  I asked the postman to use the coal chute for bigger orders and even placed a pillow at the bottom.  Still I got caught.

johnw

[Brian Ellis]

 

[TheOnionMan]

Last week on of my photos was used to sell a snowdrop. When I queried it the seller said it was her own photo but. I told her it was my photo and gave her details of where and when it was taken. The reply was The photo orinated in Germany. I only allow people I know to use photos. One person adds links to my web site.

I'll must confess, that I did lift (pirate) one of the snowdrop pics in this forum, for the creation of my gaggalanthus photos, but such photos went no further than the Galanthus Bulb repository here on the SRGC Forum 
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=4865.0

Seriously though, I have had similar experiences where my Allium photos have been lifted and used without my knowledge for various nurseries or online plant sales.  Whenever I've been contacted for permission to use my photos, I've always obliged such requests, but it is unsettling to find out one's photos are hijacked without permission for commercial purposes by others.

[johnw]

I'll must confess, that I did lift one of the snowdrop pics in this forum

This may cost you an 'E.A. Bowles'.  Brace yourself.  

johnw