Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 1 well let me post our conversation Carl..... you are just out to destroy people! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- you cry and whine like the worst person ever! you got your money back as I promised and agreed in the first place. did you not? c'mon tell the truth here.. as always there are 2 sides of the story... I even offered you a free laelia purpurata pink HCC/aos blooming size division for free for the trouble of not having it shipped to right away because of the crazy cold weather. I communicated with you to let you know what was going on but since you did not get it your way you are just out to destroy a person reputation just because you can... Such character on your part DOES THAT MAKE YOU A BETTER PERSON? IT MAKES YOU FEEL BETTER? hmm something is wrong here...we both know I did not steal anything from you.. you know that.. right. hassle.. yes but steal? I do not think so... as I said I sleep good at night because I do not steal and destroy people's reputation. oh yeah this was part of your threat... well I can counter act by telling the truth.. I do not have anything to hide... From: aiko31@comcast.net To: malibucarl@hotmail.com Subject: Re: You've received an answer to your question about item Cattleya Summer Spot BLOOM SIZE orchid plant 8" net POT Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:28:04 -0700 i emailed you monday getting ready to ship you did not reply. i simply wanted wanted to get an ok and if the plants are to your liking. I guess not.. Regarding the shipping... the thing of it is. they will sit outside of my house the carrier picks it up for me because i am not home and will be at work. that is how I ship my plants... the shipping label was going to be purchased through paypal so i do not go in the post office. MARIA KRON ----- Original Message ----- From: carl straub To: aiko31@comcast.net Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 12:54 PM Subject: RE: You've received an answer to your question about item Cattleya Summer Spot BLOOM SIZE orchid plant 8" net POT READ THE EMAIL STRING AGAIN. YOU PROMISED TO SHIP THE PLANTS WITH INSURANCE AND TRACKING, ON MONDAY. YOU DID NOT DO IT. It makes no difference re. Temp IF you deliver them to a facility. YOU email paypal to release the funds. THAT would end their investigation. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: aiko31@comcast.net To: malibucarl@hotmail.com Subject: Re: You've received an answer to your question about item Cattleya Summer Spot BLOOM SIZE orchid plant 8" net POT Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 08:21:59 -0700 i was waiting for your reply yesterday. we had snow falling and freezing temps. you can check my zip code 98684 but I guess not. i tried working out with you as much as possible. paypal will refund your money. as I said they are holding the funds and will release them to you when they are done with their investigation. MARIA KRON ----- Original Message ----- From: carl straub To: aiko31@comcast.net Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 7:01 AM Subject: RE: You've received an answer to your question about item Cattleya Summer Spot BLOOM SIZE orchid plant 8" net POT WTF, read your last message--"OK WILL SEND THEM OUT MONDAY" u r really unbelievable. IF you sent today they would not arrive before the weekend. I DO NOT want plants shipped in bloom. u screwed around for OVER a month now. THAT'S ENOUGH FOR ME. REFUND MY MONEY NOW !!! Carl Straub -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: aiko31@comcast.net To: malibucarl@hotmail.com Subject: Re: You've received an answer to your question about item Cattleya Summer Spot BLOOM SIZE orchid plant 8" net POT Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 21:12:38 -0700 here are the plants.. please tell me if u still want them. I will pack them and get the shipping through paypal. BTW we have cold front our zip is 98684 you can check the weather it is pretty cold so you can tell me if it is ok to ship it but i will not be responsible if they freeze if you agree... MARIA KRON ----- Original Message ----- From: MARIA KRON To: carl straub Sent: Saturday, March 07, 2009 8:22 PM Subject: Re: You've received an answer to your question about item Cattleya Summer Spot BLOOM SIZE orchid plant 8" net POT ok will send them out Monday. do you want pics of the plant so you see them? MARIA KRON ----- Original Message ----- From: carl straub To: aiko31@comcast.net Sent: Saturday, March 07, 2009 4:28 PM Subject: RE: You've received an answer to your question about item Cattleya Summer Spot BLOOM SIZE orchid plant 8" net POT IF, I say IF, you intend to send the 4 plants Monday, insured, and with a tracking # that you'll send me MONDAY, as you said in the last email, then I will accept your offer. If not, tell paypal to release my money immediately. Carl Straub -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: aiko31 To: malibucarl\ Subject: Re: You've received an answer to your question about item Cattleya Summer Spot BLOOM SIZE orchid plant 8" net POT Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 19:14:13 -0800 Carl, I think the problem was i am sending you email through my phone and not getting through. But as far as the funds Paypal will hold the funds as they are right now and will releases it to you once they are done with their investigation. I work in the morning 8 till pm and use my phone a lot for emails. I noticed that when email is coming through ebay and i reply using my phone it does not go through. ( just found that out) I will not send you ugliest plant as you can see in the auctions I just listed they are blooming size plants and purpurata pink is a mature division and all of them are in sheath. I sold lots of orchids and expensive ones and awarded divisions and not here to ruin my reputation at all for 180. I am not here to rip you off or i would not make this effort at all to right the hassle or your wasted time of waiting for the plants and even offer you a nice plant that easily sells for more than 75.00 and not commonly available? either way you will get your funds through paypal once they are thru... ----- Original Message ----- From: eBay Member: arthurs.310 To: aiko Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 6:40 PM Subject: You've received an answer to your question about item Cattleya Summer Spot BLOOM SIZE orchid plant 8" net POT eBay sent this message to(jellybeanaiko). Your registered name is included to show this message originated from eBay. Learn more. Buyer has responded to your question about this item Do not respond to the sender if this message requests that you complete the transaction outside of eBay. This type of offer is against eBay policy, may be fraudulent, and is not covered by buyer protection programs. Learn More. Dear jellybeanaiko, I did not receive your proposal. I want NO store credit You told me that "paypal would refund my money" AND "they have the funds". Both untrue. If I accepted your offer of my original 3 plus laelia Purpurata 'pink' you would just send me the worst plants you have. PLEASE just refund the $180 as you said you would. Carl Straub Refund (Unique Transaction ID #526215496V6608736) In reference to: 0S952411RV2884504 Original Transaction Date Type Status Details Gross Fee Net Feb. 9, 2009 Payment From Carl Straub Refunded Details $180.00 USD -$5.52 USD $174.48 USD Related Transactions Date Type Status Details Gross Fee Net Mar. 2, 2009 The funds that were placed on temporary hold have been reversed Removed Details -$180.00 USD $5.52 USD -$174.48 USD Mar. 12, 2009 Update to Reversal Canceled Details $174.48 USD $0.00 USD $174.48 USD Mar. 12, 2009 Refund Completed ... -$180.00 USD $5.52 USD -$174.48 USD Carl Straub Email: carlstraub@charter.net -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total Amount: -$180.00 USD Fee: $5.52 USD Total: -$174.48 USD -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mar. 12, 2009 Time: 16:12:51 PDT Status: Completed -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: You have sent $174.48 USD to Carl Straub with PayPal Note: Ok Carl, I had a talk with paypal and we are now closing the dispute and your money as promised is being sent back to you. paypal held the funds. I was going to send the orchids even though the funds are being held by paypal until done with their part. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

a follow up from him: note the very funny comment at the end (that he googled my ebay ID which is rjsandiego and something about right and wrong...I had to google myself to see what he was talking about, LOL...what he saw was a link to a gay.com site...of course it's a 38 year old gay man with some hot looking abs, I had to inform him that I'm not a 38 year old gay man, but a 43 year old married woman, who would give anything for abs that looked like that ; ) here's his response: (oh and btw..I was never HOSTILE, not sure where that came from) this will be my last email to you as you are not choosing to discuss this without becoming hostile. Why don't I post that I am a charitable giver? because unless I use ebay's charity works program, then it is against ebay policy to state that I raising money for a charity. Why don't I used ebay's charity works? Because it makes you do a flat % with 10% being the minimum. I make $15 when I sell a greenhouse (NOTE HIS COMMENT EARLIER ABOUT NOT MAKING ONE SINGLE CENT). If I used their charity works program, I would be required to give $80. Not sure how that would work when my profit is only $15. Why don't I make reference to the GW site or provide a link? Once again, this is against ebay policy to provide links or direct ebay users to a 3rd party site. Again, as I stated before, if anyone had an issue with me using their publicly posted picture, then I immediately removed it without even asking them to verify ownership. this is just my opinion. *****Just like by doing a simple google search of your ebay ID helps me understand that we have differing opinions on what is right and wrong***** i am not out to judge and either should you.

My experience is a negative for Bulbmart. I purchased 3 Starship Enterprise irises from them through eBay. They were a little pricey to boot. It took two years for them to finally bloom and they were not Starship Enterprise irises. I wrote to Mr. Hirt twice - once to see if he would replace them with the correct irises.....which I had my doubts about him sending even though I still had my emails to and from him concerning shipping. The second email was just to ask if he could at least identify the iris he sent as I had sent a few photos to him. There was no response to either of my emails. (Maybe that's good after hearing how he responds to most people.) I see he's up and selling more irises on eBay again. Naturally, I would never buy from him a second time and hope nobody else falls victim to him either.

sue36, you are looking at hours:minutes:seconds there, so the other bid was entered six seconds before the end, not 6/100ths of a second. When you are outbid and the winning bidder wins by a small amount, this is almost always one bid increment. He may have put in a bid that was much higher but he only has to win by one bid increment, so that's all that he has to pay. Ebay's bid proxy system works really well this way. Once in awhile someone will win by less than one bid increment but I think this is only when his bid was entered before yours. Maybe. It's happened to me on both ends many times in nine years of ebay buying and selling. Someday I'll look at this more closely and figure out the details! Ha. When you put in an amount, always add some change to foil those who bid in even dollar amounts. For example, if you are willing to pay $25.00 for something, make your bid amount something like $26.88. You'll beat anyone who is also thinking $25 is a good price, and you'll beat those who think that going a few cents more (like $25.01 or $25.50) is a smart tactic. Sometimes I go one odd-number notch up and then another just to be safe, and more than a few times this has been necessary to win! And usually if you're willing to pay $25, then another dollar plus change is not a big deal. Oh, and I've been using Auctionstealer for many years and am quite happy with it. I used the free snipes for a long time and then started paying by the year for their service. I think only once they failed to bid for me and I have not had any problems with security at all.