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Shopping on Ebay for plants (can get expensive)
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I don't shop on Ebay for plants very often but I have developed an interest in Sansevierias recently and thought I'd check out the selection over there. Lots of moderately priced, interesting specimens but then I found this Sansevieriea powellii
http://cgi.ebay.com/SANSEVIERIA-POWELLII-TRUE-SPECIES_W0QQitemZ170227678304QQihZ007QQcategoryZ42211QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
. The current high bid is $710!
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June 13, 2008, 08:50:03 AM »
Do you know about the Sanseveria forum at Garden Web? I bet you can exchange cuttings there.
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June 13, 2008, 10:28:37 AM »
Yes LeaAnne. I check it out on occassion. So far it hasn't been very active but I've enjoyed reading through all the old posts.
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Holy Mother-In-Law's Tongue! It's up to $961.-- with a day and a half left to go.
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Re: Shopping on Ebay for plants (can get expensive)
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http://cgi.ebay.com/EXHIBITION-FICUS-BONSAI-TREE-75-YRS-OLD-SHOWPIECE_W0QQitemZ220244846098QQihZ012QQcategoryZ20524QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Bonsai regularly are offered for extraordinary prices, too. Don't recall one ever selling, tho.
I wonder if they are "shilling"... shilling is when you get a friend to pump up the price, and then at the last minute the friend drops out when a sucker bids against you...
I've been the sucker before.
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Sunbeam... I think I've been shilled before too. That's why I try to stay out of auctions like this one.
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June 16, 2008, 06:45:22 PM »
oh em gee... it sold for $1625... I wonder if the buyer noticed the blemish on the second leaf from the bottom on the left.
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Is the plant getting its own seat on the plane too?
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Hosta and daylily folks pay big big bucks for new varieties all the time. I read their forums a lot on Garden Web. I walked away from a hydrangea I wanted the other day because the only size was a three gallon for $23.
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