"Susan Erickson" wrote in message
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On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 20:58:14 GMT, "Bill Landers"
wrote:

I have also seen items listed by this seller before. Today, he had an oak
leaf hydrangea listed with a picture of a PG hydrangea. Unfortunately,
this
isn't a one-time error in uploading. Is it really that difficult to
submit
an error-free listing? I happen to hold "professional" nurserymen to a
higher standard than this.
Bill Landers


You are upgrading a scam artist. And doing all nurserymen a
disservice. Is it possible to gripe to Ebay? Or to post a
notice there that he is misrepresenting material?

SuE
http://orchids.legolas.org/gallery/albums.php

Hi Susan-
It would probably be a waste of time to complain to eBay. The seller could
easily claim a "mistake" in uploading the correct image for the particular
item. I guess the the old CAVEAT EMPTOR applies here. I truly believe that
the average person shopping for plants on eBay is generally not all that
well-informed on what they are bidding on. For example, sellers are listing
seeds of named hostas, when we all know that they will not come
true-to-name, and if you spend any amount of time perusing the listings, you
can find many more instances of this. Is it deceptive? Some sellers may
not know any better, but I suppose that others do and don't really care. I
posted the original item this morning because this seemed more careless than
usual, and the seller in question has a history of sloppy listings. But
then again, his feedback rating is 99% plus, so what do I know?!?
Bill Landers