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Join Date: Aug 2021
Location: Coastal CT, zone 7a
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Anyway, I learned during this process that a seller has several months (I think actually an entire year) to actually collect the payment even if Paypal shows a status of "paid". So there can be a discrepancy between what Paypal shows and the actual status with the seller--it's not, apparently, an "automatic occurrence". I have had multiple positive experiences with Renaissance Farms, compared to the poor experience with the LI-based company. That's a customer sample of n=1, for what that's worth, but I certainly plan to buy again from Renaissance Farms. The LI-based company has lost my business, unfortunately. |
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Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: Southern WI
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Brownville, Ne
Posts: 3,291
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With the advent of Covid, more folks at home getting into gardening and the loss of several seed selling sites, a little patience goes a long ways.
I have not ordered from Curtis, but all the other sites experience a gap between orders taken and seeds sent out. Those sellers that are a single person can get a flood of orders when southern growers start planting now and it continues though the northern surge. I order early (but no so early since many sellers don't begin packaging seeds until the new year). That way a month from order to receipt is not a bother. A blurb on the website explaining their situation would certainly help explain the lag time. Since I am planning to spend the money anyway, I don't care when the check (or card) gets cashed. As long as the seeds get to me by my planting time. One of my favorite sellers says on his site that they do not read or answer e-mails very often because they are busy sending out seeds. His turn around is generally a couple of weeks. Another favorite does send out an e-mail notice that the order has been received. The good thing is that I have never been forgotten or had the wrong order sent except by one of the big catalog companies. That is why I deal with the smaller family organizations despite any small wait for delivery.
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Join Date: Apr 2021
Location: Pacific Northwest
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I put in another order just after new years, and finally got a confirmation email yesterday. Does seem legit, just REALLY slow. |
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Sunol, CA
Posts: 2,723
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One man bands are slow at times. When all the orders are coming in. And last night I found a couple of orders from last month that fell through the cracks. Glad they are not on Tomatoville.
I'm struggling to keep up right now too. Some of the larger seed companies are as well.
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Join Date: Mar 2021
Location: Illinois
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