Galanthus - Ebay digression 2012

[Brian Ellis]

The seller of "Wanbleburt Ring", "chinaboyz", seems to have built-up an eBay reputation selling china and has now diversified into snowdrops of his own invention.  

Just idly looking to see what all this was about, I was horrified to see that he comes from Norwich - please note it is not me

[daveyp1970]

'Wanbleburt Ring'  =  great name   

I wonder who found it?..... 

According to goodle images - this is a picture of 'Bert Womble'     Could it be him?.... 

John your discoverer looks quite like our Steve Owen 

[Mavers]

Alan_b makes a good point regarding ebay's concept of a fake snowdrop.

I have had mostly good experiences buying snowdrops & orchids on ebay.

The one bad experience was a couple of years ago when I was sent a misnamed dactylorhiza & ebay were useless because by the time the plant flowered the time period for recourse had expired.

I suggested to ebay that they extend their time limit when dealing with plants & bulbs to allow for flowering & verification.

'Captain Bowles' is certainly a new one on me  

[Alan_b]

"Chinaboyz" is currently selling:

GALANTHUS PLICATUS -WANBLEBURT RING
GALANTHUS PLICATUS - TRYM
GALANTHUS ELWESSI - CAPTAIN BOWLES
GALANTHUS NIVALIS - GREEN NECKLACE
GALANTHUS NIVALIS -BABY ARNOT

There are no pictures and three of the five names are his own invention.  Buyer beware.

[GoodGrief]

"Chinaboyz" is currently selling:

GALANTHUS PLICATUS -WANBLEBURT RING
GALANTHUS PLICATUS - TRYM
GALANTHUS ELWESSI - CAPTAIN BOWLES
GALANTHUS NIVALIS - GREEN NECKLACE
GALANTHUS NIVALIS -BABY ARNOT

There are no pictures and three of the five names are his own invention.  Buyer beware.

I've asked him send me a picture of Captain Bowles!!!   

[Alan_b]

Similar in nature to E.ABowles this version Captain Bowles is a bit more robust.You are bidding on 1 bulb it is of the Galanthus elwesii family and has a larger flower of white with a green  markings.

Given that E.A. Bowles is a cultivar of G. plicatus and given that it is a poculiform snowdrop so has no green markings, I fail to see what possible similarity there could be.  Except, perhaps, that they are both snowdrops!

[Martin Baxendale]

Some of Chinaboyz's descriptions are quite incredible:

Picture not added yet as not in flower..You are bidding on 1 bulb of an exceptionally Rare  snowdrop called -BABY ARNOT it is of the Galanthus Nivalis family and has a single flower of pure white, markings as wih Susan Arnot green V downward pointing inner trumpet.It is a truly lovely snodrop and worth every penny.

"Susan" Arnott???

[Maggi Young]

'Wanbleburt Ring'  =  great name   

I wonder who found it?..... 

According to goodle images - this is a picture of 'Bert Womble'     Could it be him?.... 

John your discoverer looks quite like our Steve Owen 

Nah! I think Steve is much more of a teddy bear than a womble.

[daveyp1970]

'Wanbleburt Ring'  =  great name   

I wonder who found it?..... 

According to goodle images - this is a picture of 'Bert Womble'     Could it be him?.... 

John your discoverer looks quite like our Steve Owen 

Nah! I think Steve is much more of a teddy bear than a womble.

That's a fair point Maggie

[Martina Kopsieker]

Hello to all!

Thank you very much for the warning!!
Hope more people will read it.

Martina

[Gerard Oud]

Some of Chinaboyz's descriptions are quite incredible:

Picture not added yet as not in flower..You are bidding on 1 bulb of an exceptionally Rare  snowdrop called -BABY ARNOT it is of the Galanthus Nivalis family and has a single flower of pure white, markings as wih Susan Arnot green V downward pointing inner trumpet.It is a truly lovely snodrop and worth every penny.

"Susan" Arnott???

Almost sounds like Chinese with an English accent

[steve owen]

'Wanbleburt Ring'  =  great name   

I wonder who found it?..... 

According to goodle images - this is a picture of 'Bert Womble'     Could it be him?.... 

John your discoverer looks quite like our Steve Owen 

Nah! I think Steve is much more of a teddy bear than a womble.

That's a fair point Maggie

Less noise IVc or you'll all be in detention tonight...

[Maggi Young]

Ooops! He was listening! 

[mark smyth]

Chinaboyz is now using the same photo for Green Necklace and Baby Arnott

[Anthony Darby]

I made the mistake of accepting a bid for some moth eggs from "Alan Cirrus". He pestered me for feedback, which I gave, for prompt payment etc. He then proceeded to give me my only negative feedback with the words "avoid avoid avoid". Needless to say, the feedback was so obviously bogus that it had no effect on subsequent sales and I blocked him bidding further, using his comments in some of my ads. He sells toys. I reluctantly sold a lot of model railway engines etc after that and had plenty of bidders.