I just received an order from Durham Botanicals last week. Great looking plants and he has several varieties. You'll have to tell him what you want and he can verify if he has it. He wants orders of 6 or more as a minimum. I got together with two people from work to order. You can email him at - chris@durhambotanicials.com. I am very happy with the quality of the plants. He has two different variegated adeniums too. I have attached a pic of several we purchased from Chris. He is also on facebook in the adenium groups. I'll take pics of the five I purchased tonight and post them. Lonnie This post was edited by printmaster on Wed, Jul 9, 14 at 6:58

Purely marketing considerations. A) Ariocarpus are highly collectible, and subsequently have a lot of people searching eBay for them. These sellers figure that although the plant not be what they are actually looking for, they might be inspired to buy one. B) However, particularly in the case of Lophophora, they are just trying to get around the fact that is is illegal to sell this plant in the US (and other countries I'd guess). Of course the people at eBay can't tell the difference between true Ariocarpus and peyote, so the auctions continue...

You can put something like check my other auctions (or if you have an ebay store, check my ebay store) for more designs. Just make sure to have at least 2 auctions or store items running when you say that or ebay will nail you. If folks like what you sell they can contact you via ebay mail to ask what you have. just make sure you reply directly to them NOT thur the clickable link in the email (respond) as replying thru the link allows ebay access to your answer. Ebay stores are a good way to get things out there fairly cheaply. Basic store is 9.95/month, each listing in the store is .02 and a gallery picture is .01, for a grand total of .03 for each listing--and the item can be listed for 30 days & it will automatically roll over at the end of the 30 days, for another .03 charge. final value fees are the same as for auctions, but the listing is cheap. Stores are submitted to search engines like google etc, and there is a seperate search on ebay for stores. You can easily switch a store item to an auction item (at auction listing prices)and back to a store item, so stores are a good place to "park" things cheaply, but still be viewable to potential customers. If you have stuff that typically sells better at certian times of the year, you can park them in the store all year long, for those folks who may be looking for that item at odd times, then bring it out as an auction during it's busy season. You can also list in auction s & the store if you have multiple items. I started making jewelry recently, and bought extra beads to meet wholesale minimums, just to sell on ebay. I list one set of beads for auction with a starting price, and a buy it now (BIN) price. I list the rest of them in my store at the BIN price, since beaders typically will buy in multiples. If you are going to open a store use lots of "searchable" words in your store description (check mine out), not necessarily "brand" names, but things folks search for likr gift, handmade, etc It takes a bit for the search engines to crawl your store description, but if you opened a store now it would be in alot of search engines by thanksgiving. For store catagories make your 1st 5 your major ones as they are also what helps the search engines find you. Don't waste them with things like MISC. Sorry about the store rant...but stores CAN be a very valuable asset when selling on ebay. just make sure you keep 1 or 2 auctions running as it does help get your store seen.(Ebay also has a board just for stores where you can get lots of help, tips & info). Hazel

Can't help you with percentages, but can offer some advice. First look up the item that you are selling and put a watch this item on it and see if it sold. No sense selling something that no one is not buying. Yes there is a small charge if the item does not sell. That will depend on how many photos you list etc. E-Bay will let you knopw what the charges will be and you can back out if you want. I have shipped a saddle across the country for $60 so think small. The PO has small boxes that are $7.95 postage paid. If the item will fit in a padded envelope - that is even cheaper. Books and Dvd's can go media mail and that saves money too. Be sure you say which payment types you accept. Yes Paypal costs money but it is convenient for me as a buyer or seller. Beware the "low baller" who might ask you to take half of what your item is worth. One offered me $25 for something I later sold on E-Bay for $60. Also I state I will not ship overseas and that gets rid of some scammers. Beware of anyone who offers you a cashiers check for more than the amount - there are fake cashiers checks and money orders out there. Often the person says they will send an agent to pick the item up. All they want is you to cash the check and send them money. Scam scam.. I had a lady once say an one of a pair of items was broken and she would not have paid so much. I came back with - take the item to the post office because I carried insurance on it. Well she did not want to do that. Insurance is cheaper than worrying about something that is lost or missing. All for now, Kathy