Ebay rogues

[Gaz]

Ebay Item: 150323466559

What are some people on, bidding £35 + £10p+p for a b&Q £10 Phoenix canariensis_CIDP. Sellers should be forced to put a picture of the item they are selling.

Although it does prove there is one born every minute!!!

[themes]

[helen]

Email the seller and ask for a picture of the actual plant. And then show us!

[themes]

Email the seller and ask for a picture of the actual plant. And then show us!

better still email the seller and ask for pics of the seller

[Dave Brown]

Also seems to have forgotten to say not reliably hardy away from costal areas

It has only got that price because two people have bid that high.

[Adrian]

Hey Gaz, dont fully blame the seller, yes sure he should have put up a photo of the palm on offer and not just of the mature specimen but he started his sale at just 99p.
Its the punters who have got it up to £35 or whatever.

[grub]

That seller has been doing that type of auction for at least the last year Gaz and achieving some great results ,As far as marketing goes he's got it covered now all I need to do is follow his business advertising strategy and i'll be quids in

[MarkD]

not reliably hardy away from postal areas

I've never heard of that before. Does being near a post office have a bearing on it's hardiness?

[Adrian]

butter! thats where I went wrong, if only I lived a bit closer to the village

[Gaz]

We better join the campain to save our local post office

[Dave Brown]

Ooops corrected it now don't quite know what happened...... the p is nowhere near the c

[Guy]

Yes, they closed my local post office and all my palms died

[lee-ann]

My post office is at the end of my street but mine still died

[col]

I notice he covers his back by mentioning further on that the picture is of a mature specimen - which is exactly what he'll refer you to when you complain.

As someone who has sold for a living since 1982, I wish I could meet the kind of people who are blindly bidding like this because there is a lovely mile-long suspension bridge over the River Humber I'd like to sell them for cash!

[Guy]

Col, that would be fraud as you don't own the bridge (I assume )
He's not a rogue. The people bidding are simply idiots. I hope no one on here would bid on one. We'd check around ie go to B+Q and get one for a sensible price. We'd also find out about hardiness. We'd never bid without a picture, ie we would apply sensible precautions. If they spend money like water they deserve what they get