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Old 07-23-2022, 09:09 AM   #25 (permalink)
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Default Re: Beware of Rip Offs from Members

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Originally Posted by AaronTT View Post
I too have had great experiences with everyone else on bananas.org. I never had a problem with any trades before. She had been on long enough, and probably knows damn well, that what she gave me is not a Gm highgate. She just kept doubling down on her lies. I actually believed it was possible she had some rare version, till it flowered. So I gave her the benefit of the doubt, and was quite patient through it all, just to make sure I was right. She made zero attempts to right the wrong, and would only keep saying it is a Gm. There is no such thing as a Gm that looks identical to an Orinoco. I told her it looks nothing like one, but she kept saying that it was proven and she had gotten bunches off of it.
When I thought I'd had given someone on here the wrong thing, I made an attempt to make it right. If you give someone something wrong by mistake, you need to make it right as it's your mistake. Her response was to say to the effect that " oh, I could give you another, but it would just be the same". No attempts were made to offer another type. Instead she kept saying how Gabe said it is a Gm, and Keith gave it to her, so she is already looking to deflect blame. She knows damn well she mislead me.
Just to maybe add a bit of info to this thread...Aaron and I made a trade last summer (I believe I gave him a Pisang Ceylon in exchange for the supposed GM Highgate). I knew the Highgate hadn't fruited for him yet but was okay with that since he said he had gotten it from a longtime member here. As it grew it became clear that it was definitely not a GM as it looked nothing like my full size Gros Michel. It was clearly either a Namwah or Orinoco and I definitely don't need any more of either of those so I dug it up.

I can't say enough good things about Aaron though, we've made several trades since then and he has gone well out of his way to make things right.
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