marymb, Valueseeds is just a clearing house for overstocked or out of date seeds from thompson and morgan. Ive always had excellent germination from them however. (only problem with valueseeds is they do not update quick enough =)... Then they do and you want to buy everything! Thanks everyone for your suggestions! Alot of companies Ive heard of or used, but there were some new ones out there! My quick observations on some... Though im not expert on seed companies! Im placing a order with baker creek this year for the first time, they got alot of stuff! Ive done Johhnys and Pine tree in the past, I like pine tree alot, Last year I had a mixup with Johhnys about some fortex beans I wanted... IM ACROSS the state for goodness sake and they wanted to charge me 2.95 or something like that to ship 4.00 in beans. Anyways, I have no issue with thier seeds though, MY ONLY problem is anyone in maine carrying thier seeds are mostly north of me, for some reason there isnt alot of places in Maine carrying a MAINE company seeds. I do not order from burpee online... I can get thier seeds from walmart and lowes here, for cheaper , and sometimes more product in it. Go figure =). Ive done swallowtail seeds in the past, I might try them again this year to get those elusive fortex beans I wanna try.... Thank you again everyone!

I used LightingDirect and my experience was wonderful. I purchased approx 40 fixtures from them. All The fixtures were delivered within three weeks of placing my order. I had two glass globes that were broken and they sent out new ones with no questions asked.

Hadley, I think you will do fine with with thought to purchase the Bosch laundry. I find that most of my customers are happy with most of their front load purchases whatever the brand. One of the number one things I'm called out for repair is just customer education. It takes some adjustment to go from a Top load to a front load and I suggest reading through the Use & Care manual completely. Regarding svcmgr's comments If he was a former Bosch employee it seems pretty obvious why he is no longer employed. It seems that he is on a personal vendeta as he seems to only post on Bosch related posts and he never has anything of value or substance to relate. If he is or ever was a service manager I would expect that he would be helpful in diagnosing the problem that has been posted rather than giving info totally unrelated to the products problem. For the few of us "real" service folks that post here we are more interested in helping you with a product than we are in bad mouthing a brand. While I do own a few Bosch products I feel that most of the manufacturers do build good product. When you realize that each manufacturer is producing hundreds of thousands of washers and dryers a year and servicers only repair less than 10% of everything that is built (remember customer ed is also major part of these repairs) they must be doing something right or they couldn't afford to stay in business. As I said I do own a Bosch laundry pair and a Bosch D/W and it's mainly because I like the build quality of the product. But I can pretty much say you are going to like whatever you purchase. Jakvis

Hi, Michellemarie - We just ordered several lighting fixtures from Arcadianlighting.com and didn't have a good experience. One of the items was not the one we ordered. I called the company yesterday and was told that the item we ordered is no longer available so they sent this one instead. Were they hoping we'd not notice? The one we received is not as nice and has fewer details than the one we paid for. To complicate things, the one we received is not offered on their website (though it matches the style we ordered) and we paid several hundred dollars even though the items were on "clearance" -- but now they're back to full price. Eh???? Arcadian Lighting offered only to send us a return label. I think I'd recommend that you don't use Arcadian Lighting.