Galanthus - Ebay digression 2012

[mark smyth]

Have you all noticed how many mistakes there are on Ebay from one seller ?



I bought two snowdrops on Ebay which isnt a surprise but ....

I bought two buy it now. The snowdrop listed didnt match the photo but I liked the one in the photo. They arrived yesterday and I got a different snowdrop.


and very annoying was they werent secure in the package resulting in broken scapes and damaged flowers or maybe s/he bent them over

and lastly I dont recognise the snowdrop

[art600]

and lastly I dont recognise the snowdrop

Must be rare and will make your fortune 

[Alan_b]

Mark, it might be helpful to others to identify the ebay seller in question.  What you are saying is that in your opinion the snowdrop supplied did not match the photograph accompanying the listing, the plants arrived somewhat damaged and in your opinion this was because they had been inadequately packaged.  I don't see there is anything unreasonable in that (and I would hope your eBay feedback will say as much).   

[art600]

I bought two snowdrops on Ebay which isnt a surprise

Now we know who has been buying 'Green Tear', #A E Bowles' and all those very expensive drops 

[johnw]

Just a thought and it may have been touched on by others, I assume in many cases wrong photos and wrong names are intentional. If you buy a bulb listed as E.K. Bowles thinking it should have been E.A. Bowles and it didn't match the pic then the judge would throw the case out.

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

Did some mention that fellow down near Stuttgart was at it again on eBay and with a new name?
I would hope potential buyers would at least google these names before purchasing.  

On occasion only nivalis and elwesii are on eBay here in Canada but have never bought a thing on eBay.

johnw

[steve owen]

..and if you buy a "Grumpy-looking" snowdrop or something labelled "sandersii" on Ebay from get-rich quick sellers with no provenance, please don't pass them on to others as the genuine thing. There is enough clonal variety in named snowdrops without people introducing mongrel look-alikes.

[Martin Baxendale]

It's always possible that a seller might as a deliberately ploy put up a snowdrop for sale with a pic of a much rarer and more desirable snowdrop, hoping that buyers will think they're getting a bargain, that the seller is inadvertently selling something better as something less good by mistake.

[mark smyth]

here it is. Anyone know it?

[steve owen]

Its "Turning Left".

[steve owen]

To date this season around 140 snowdrop varieties have been offered for sale on Ebay. Therefore around 1,400 (=90%) have not. Average Ebay prices are 7% down on last year.

[Maggi Young]

Its "Turning Left".

I saw it as turning right... I suppose that's why I don't drive a car............

[kentish_lass]

Its "Turning Left".

 

[Anthony Darby]

Is it Galanthus "Ice dance"?

[snowdropman]

To date this season around 140 snowdrop varieties have been offered for sale on Ebay. Therefore around 1,400 (=90%) have not. Average Ebay prices are 7% down on last year.

I am afraid that you will have to add 500+ to your figure of 1400 - to date, I count 2000+ named cultivars on my Snowdrop Database and in the past few weeks it has been growing at the rate of 5 to 10 new names each day, which I have come across

[mark smyth]

2000+ 

Are they all alive?