Yes, I knew he was a kid when I shipped him plants, supposedly for his grandma's birthday. I thought I was doing something nice and it turned into a real fiasco. I just wanted to be sure others were aware of this before dealing with him. He was very actively seeking trades for a while and will probably be back. He claims to have traded quite a bit but I did not see any feedback for him.

Becky

Nathan wanted to trade seeds with me and I agreed to trade. He then wrote me and said he had a bad rating on GW and was trying to correct it so he wanted to send his part of the trade first. He didn't have to tell me, and as it turns out I had not looked him up. I looked him up after and saw that he was a teenager and felt It was worth trading with him. He sent his end of the trade very promptly, more promptly than I was able to send his back as I was sick. He sent a nice amount of seeds and more than I asked for.

I have not traded plants with him, but my guess is the postage expense was an issue for a teenager. Heck, postage these days is an issue for me as it keeps going up.

At any rate for me the seed trade went well. I recommend you give him a chance on seed trades.

Jean
recipesaver2

Okay, there are some cruel things on here, and I would like to make them straight. It is not my fault that ramazz's package got lost in the mail and gave to someone else. And I even sent tvalenti's package 3x!!!! How am I supposed to be to blame for that? And I admit it was wrong for me to send ramazz's package book rate, but is no one going to trade with me beause of that? I DO NOT ADMIT TO SCAMMING ANYONE! And no where in this post will you see that anyone said that I "scammed" them. I have set up a policy just to make every feel better. I will always send my half first, and if you don't receive it, then you dont have to send your half. No way for me to hurt anyone, and ramazz even recomended it!

I have a feeling that some people have jumped to an extreme conclusion after dealing with a kid who's just a little inexperienced. First, I've never seen a single review on my trading, and I've been trading for years. Neither have I ever posted a review for anyone or checked anyone out here before trading. If no one would trade with me without a "good review", I would have never traded. So I guess my conclusion is that the "review" forum is kind of a sound-off for bad trades only...

I think some of these details needs to be cleared up before this kid is tagged a "scammer." Gabi, that's a little harsh for the stuff I'm reading here. I'm reading that with Ramazz, he took the cheap way out and sent plants that took too long to arrive and arrived in bad condition. I get the impression from his posts that he learned his lesson. Has anyone else here had him send plants this way? If not, then that issue has been dealt with.

SG, I do have just a little trouble with the fact that the post office gave the box Ramazz sent to another person... What was their explanation for that? I mean, if a box gets stolen off my porch, that's one thing. But the point of having a P.O. box is that your mail is safe in the hands of the post office. If Ramazz had a delivery confirmation number, I'd have asked for the number and would have been all over that P.O., giving them serious heck about giving away my box...

And calling him a "nut case" because the seeds didn't arrive is a little harsh, too. Tvalenti or SG, did you check the address exchanged to make sure it was correct? On an early trade, I transposed two of the numbers in my address when giving it to the sender. It took a few extra days, but our P.O. managed to get it to me anyway, and at first I was a little ticked that the sender messed it up. Of course, I then discovered that I was the one that screwed it up! Now I double check my e-mails before seding them, and I triple check addresses I put on packages! But had it been me, SG, I probably would have continued to send the seeds until they got there, no matter how many times it took... Or found a way to make it up to the other trader.

There are things we just learn by trial and error. I learned early on not to send cuttings or plants in those flimsy flat priority boxes. Someone I sent to got a box of them that had been crushed. Now I send them only in very sturdy boxes and put packing peanuts in to support it in case it gets banged around. I got a box of cuttings recently in one of those boxes that had been smashed and lost all but one of the cuttings because they were just beyond salvaging...

Anyway, I just wanted to put my 2 cents worth in here. SG, if I were you, I'd see if you could find a few people you had good trades with to come on here in your defense. (Good for Jean for coming forward...) When this kind of rhetoric gets going, it tends to turn into a bash-fest. I think you've taken a step in the right direction by offering to send your package first and making the box coming to you contingent on the other person's satisfaction with your plants or seeds arriving in good condition...

Denise in Omaha

Just to clarify and not to cause more trouble - I did give SG the confirmation number and the Post Office website indicated that the box was delivered. I asked at MY post office and they said it is possible to deliver a box to the wrong person, even with a delivery confirmation. If you want to confirm that it is delivered to the right person, then you need the person to sign for the package.

I gave him the benefit of the doubt and told him I would send ANOTHER box after I received his. The box that SG sent book rate never arrived at all.

SG is supposed to be sending me some seeds so that we can have a positive seed trading experience. When this trade is complete, I will post here again and give him a positive review.

Becky
ramazz

I have only had one less-than-awesome experience on GW, and that has been with SG. I had read the reviews about him, but decided every one deserves a second chance, so I set up a trade on Nov 16. On Dec 4 he emailed me asking if I had recieved the seeds. When I told him no, he said he'd remail them the next day- as of Dec 10- still no seeds. I had not mailed my part of the trade, as per above, so no real harm done, just wanted to remind y'all to use caution in trading with him.

Finally recieved the seeds today- postage due 22 cents, had to go to the post office to pick them up. I will mail his seeds out Monday, but will not trade with him again.