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Seeds sent from China

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  • Loxley said:
    Perhaps they will grow into those wonderful roses with all the colours of the rainbow on one plant I keep seeing advertised
    I keep reporting them on eBay...sometimes they take down the listing...but it takes a while. Makes you wonder how foolish people can be to fall for those amateurish Photoshop jobs. 
    To Plant a Garden is to Believe in Tomorrow
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Loxley said:
    Perhaps they will grow into those wonderful roses with all the colours of the rainbow on one plant I keep seeing advertised
    I keep reporting them on eBay...sometimes they take down the listing...but it takes a while. Makes you wonder how foolish people can be to fall for those amateurish Photoshop jobs. 
    I had one of those adds taken of Facebook,  I reported, they checked then wrote back to me to say they’d taken it off and the company ceased trading on FB.
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Blue OnionBlue Onion Posts: 2,995
    Yeah.. I saw that. Top image looks a lot like citrus seeds.. left over from an OJ factory? Someone in Utah got some and said it was marked 'jewelry' on the customs declaration. I wonder if that lady now has a review on Amaz@n for a lovely necklace 'she' purchased for $.01 and $15.95 shipping? Another article said they are now arriving from other Asian countries of origins as well.
    Utah, USA.
  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    An item about this on Radio 4's PM programme , from 18:47.
    Includes information about where to send any packets.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000lf1r
  • I still don't quite understand how free (seeds or something) translates to a useful outcome, be it a positive review or anything else. Surely to leave a review, someone had to have bought something and therefore paid for it. You can't leave a review if you haven't bought anything, and sellers can't force a review or write one on someone's behalf. Doesn't make much sense to me...
  • Blue OnionBlue Onion Posts: 2,995
    If I order you a gift and have it sent direct to you, I still get to write the review.  Since the seller and I are in cahoots they send you some seeds instead of the necklace I 'purchased' for you.  I work for tons of sellers, and have tons of accounts, so all the reviews look real.
    Utah, USA.
  • ManderMander Posts: 349
    I don't know why people are dismissing the idea that there could be a more nefarious purpose behind them. It's unlikely but certainly possible that noxious weeds or plants carrying a disease are being deliberately sent, whether as a prank or something else.
  • If I order you a gift and have it sent direct to you, I still get to write the review.  Since the seller and I are in cahoots they send you some seeds instead of the necklace I 'purchased' for you.  I work for tons of sellers, and have tons of accounts, so all the reviews look real.
    @Blue Onion but if you and the seller are in cahoots, why send anything to a third party who isn't involved in the scam? It's how they've got caught, so why bother? You order a gift from the seller, you leave a review, and the seller refunds you outside of the site/system you're using. Nobody would be any the wiser...
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