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Is Michigan Bulb Company Back in Business
Yes, Randy, they are back in business. My wife said she saw an ad in the last Sunday paper's coupon section advertising their "stuff," and I checked on the web at the following site and they popped up: http://michiganbulb.com/index.asp?
John "Tom Engel" wrote in message ... I just got a catalogue from the Michigan Bulb Company with an Indiana address. Have they regrouped and who owns the company now? I don't have time to waste on a company that has had such a bad reputation and (from personal experience) delivers plants that are dead or dying, but I am curious. Randy -- |
Is Michigan Bulb Company Back in Business
run awayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy y!!!!!!!!!!! ( I too went to the site and LORDY LORDY it was ALL there, the LIFETIME guarantee.........the LOW LOW prices, the obscure descriptions........ALL of it!! (amazingly enough, there WAS a red tulip that was a multi flowering type that I got from them once that actually DID come back year after year and was the reason the people who bought my house started putting in flowers. Despite that I moved all my flowers, I did miss a few hidden bulbs and that tulip was one of my misses. A friend who drives by on occaison told me the redness of it draws your eye up into the yard from the street and she says it's a nice size clump of them now, so apparently SOME things do survive...........but I'd still not fall for their "great prices" of stuff. Been there, done that, been burned and finished with them for good.
madgardener "B & J" wrote in message ... Yes, Randy, they are back in business. My wife said she saw an ad in the last Sunday paper's coupon section advertising their "stuff," and I checked on the web at the following site and they popped up: http://michiganbulb.com/index.asp? John "Tom Engel" wrote in message ... I just got a catalogue from the Michigan Bulb Company with an Indiana address. Have they regrouped and who owns the company now? I don't have time to waste on a company that has had such a bad reputation and (from personal experience) delivers plants that are dead or dying, but I am curious. Randy -- |
Is Michigan Bulb Company Back in Business
Run away FAST! I was bitten by them once, never again...
Dave On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 20:36:08 -0400, "madgardener" wrote: run awayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy y!!!!!!!!!!! ( I too went to the site and LORDY LORDY it was ALL there, the LIFETIME guarantee.........the LOW LOW prices, the obscure descriptions........ALL of it!! (amazingly enough, there WAS a re d tulip that was a multi flowering type that I got from them once that actually DID come back year after year and was the reason the people who bought my house started putting in flowers. Despite that I moved all my flowers, I did miss a few hidden bulbs a nd that tulip was one of my misses. A friend who drives by on occaison told me the redness of it draws your eye up into the yard from the street and she says it's a nice size clump of them now, so apparently SOME things do survive...........but I'd still not fall for their "great prices" of stuff. Been there, done that, been burned and finished with them for good. madgardener "B & J" wrote in message ... Yes, Randy, they are back in business. My wife said she saw an ad in the last Sunday paper's coupon section advertising their "stuff," and I checked on the web at the following site and they popped up: http://michiganbulb.com/index.asp? John "Tom Engel" wrote in message ... I just got a catalogue from the Michigan Bulb Company with an Indiana address. Have they regrouped and who owns the company now? I don't have time to waste on a company that has had such a bad reputation and (from personal experience) delivers plants that are dead or dying, but I am curious. Randy -- Dave Fouchey, WA4EMR http://photos.yahoo.com/davefouchey Southeastern Lower Michigan 42° 35' 20'' N, 82° 58' 37'' W GMT Offset: -5 Time Zone: Eastern |
Is Michigan Bulb Company Back in Business
"........ I just got a catalogue from the Michigan Bulb Company with an
Indiana address. Have they regrouped and who owns the company now? I don't have time to waste on a company that has had such a bad reputation and (from personal experience) delivers plants that are dead or dying, but I am curious. Randy ...." Why not ask them???????? -- David Hill Abacus nurseries www.abacus-nurseries.co.uk |
Is Michigan Bulb Company Back in Business
LOL ask them??? Honey these people believe their own lies. Asking them
about their persistance at perpetuating their lie about their company is not going to get them to admit the known truths. It doesn't work like that sadly. Wish it did though.....but the number of decent good reputable nursieries around outnumber them 10 to 1 or even more. (actually more) just that they try to appeal to the cheaper side of it. Cheap doesn't have to mean inferior or of less quality if done right. I suspect over the years (they have been around for 57 years but apparently the money was what changed it as it is always wont to do) back when they started, they were a good company that stood behind fairly decent plants and bulbs. Over time someone saw how easy it was to be a little misleading and eventually it bit them. That it's now in Indiana doesn't tell me it's improved. But neither does it tell me it's bad because it is in Indiana. I would have to see their products to judge them as better than before. I don't cast unnecessairy stones. I would have given it a different name if it was the same business but under new managment. Keeping the name and the whole foundation of what MB is based on is a risky endeavor. Time will tell. SOMEONE will purchase from them and if the new owners are better, we'll hear it over time. Not the "been there done that's of the past experiences" people. I can wait. I ain't gonna be the one to try them out though. g madgardener "David Hill" wrote in message ... "........ I just got a catalogue from the Michigan Bulb Company with an Indiana address. Have they regrouped and who owns the company now? I don't have time to waste on a company that has had such a bad reputation and (from personal experience) delivers plants that are dead or dying, but I am curious. Randy ...." Why not ask them???????? -- David Hill Abacus nurseries www.abacus-nurseries.co.uk |
Is Michigan Bulb Company Back in Business
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X-Trace: newsg4.svr.pol.co.uk 1059251638 25366 217.134.101.154 (26 Jul 2003 20:33:58 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: 26 Jul 2003 20:33:58 GMT X-Complaints-To: X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Path: kermit!newsfeed-east.nntpserver.com!nntpserver.com!skynet.be!skyne t.be!kibo.news.demon.net!demon!diablo.theplanet.ne t!news.theplanet.net!not-for-mail Xref: kermit rec.gardens:241095 Could be totally new owners who don't realise the reputation of the firm they have bought. I have found that so often when a company goes bad then the owners close down then start up under a new name, time after time. -- David Hill Abacus nurseries www.abacus-nurseries.co.uk |
Is Michigan Bulb Company Back in Business
David Hill wrote:
Could be totally new owners who don't realise the reputation of the firm they have bought. It makes you wonder about their competency if they didn't even research their purchase well enough to find out just how bad of a reputation they have. Even if someone got a great deal on the assets of the former company that included the rights to use the name, why in the world would they want to use such an infamous name -- unless they're totally clueless about the business they're trying to get into. I have found that so often when a company goes bad then the owners close down then start up under a new name, time after time. Unfortunately, you are correct. Sometimes it gives them a chance to not make the same mistakes they made the first time, but far too often it's simply a ruse so they can continue on their previously chosen bad path. And that also brings up another question. A "company" isn't really what's bad. It's people who are bad. Even if they don't just start-up a new company doing the same thing, they don't (usually) just fall off the face of the Earth. Where do the bad people (other than those that go to jail) go? More specifically, if the "new" Michigan Bulb company isn't being run by the people that made the "old" Michigan Bulb bad, where did those people go? Are there other companies we need to avoid because they've been infiltrated with the folks who made Michigan Bulb so infamous? I was lucky. I never got bit by Michigan Bulb. By the time I was a potential victim, they were just so infamous, with so many burned customers all over the country, I knew enough to avoid them. I may be seven degrees away from Kevin Bacon, but I'm only two degrees away from multiple people who were burned by Michigan Bulb. -- Warren H. ========== Disclaimer: My views reflect those of myself, and not my employer, my friends, nor (as she often tells me) my wife. Any resemblance to the views of anybody living or dead is coincidental. No animals were hurt in the writing of this response -- unless you count my dog who desperately wants to go outside now. Blatant Plug: Support me at: http://www.holzemville.com/mall/ |
Is Michigan Bulb Company Back in Business
I believe that they filed a chapter 11 5-7 years ago. Shame since I had
about $130 in credit memos from them That was before I found native plants. These are probably new people running the show. You can always do well buying native plants from your area. What's your area? I probably have a list of resources? J. Kolenovsky http://www.celestialhabitats.com Tom Engel wrote: = I just got a catalogue from the Michigan Bulb Company with an Indiana address. Have they regrouped and who owns the company now? I don't have time to waste on a company that has had such a bad reputation and (from personal experience) delivers plants that are dead or dying, but I am curious. Randy = -- = -- = J. Kolenovsky, A+, Network +, MCP =F4=BF=F4 - http://www.celestialhabitats.com - business =F4=BF=F4 - http://www.hal-pc.org/~garden/personal.html - personal |
Is Michigan Bulb Company Back in Business
You can always do well buying native plants from your area. What's your
area? I probably have a list of resources? ____Reply Separator_____ Allison Park, PA 15101 |
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