JoeReal

Sometimes they do sneak on eBay.

The other major complaints is that they don't know how to ship banana plants. Too often they ship them just like bulbs, no leaves, no roots, with gel for moisture and wrapped air tightly which instead of preserving the bulb (or corms), the corm becomes rotten due to anoxic conditions. In itself the corm propagation is not bad but would require some skill to resurrect bananas from rotten "bulbs". It is recommended to ship the corms partially moist using peat moss or newspaper rather than with gel.

If you do manage to grow the corms from their shipment, it will always be the wrong cultivar. They don't care what cultivar they ship to you, as long as it is a banana, and sometimes I am unsure of that. One time I got a canna instead of banana. I only realized it 5 months later, I was scratching my head if it was just a weird banana and so waited some more.

They invent names of their bananas, and their exaggerated claims of cold hardiness. I am now in doubt if there is such a thing as Musa 'Texas Star' or 'Kentucky Wonder' and other such coined marketing terms. The Texas Star which they wrote as the survivor of record breaking cold spell in Texas, well it died on me on a mild winter in Zone 9. It died to the ground and never returned. My double mahoi which is rated as cold sensitive came back from the ground without a problem after that same mild winter.