I had a very good experience recently with a seller on LA. Of course, I purchase seeds, so this is a little different.
I won one auction of this seller and then was in a bidding war with another buyer that extended almost 15 minutes for another seed auction of the same seller. I finally threw the towel in when I hit my maximum dollar amount for any seed purchase. (I keep my max low and stick to it.) Sorry to sound cheap, but my gardening budget is very tight and I can NOT go over it. I am already spending some of my 2014 budget for a few LA seed auctions I've won.
I paid right away for the one I did win and sent an email to let the seller know to go ahead and send the seeds as I did not win anything else of hers. I did mention that I almost won another of her seed auctions, but in the end was outbid. I never said anything else.
I immediately got a response from her. She said that she would be sending my seeds out the next day and she was including a bonus. Okay! Great! I usually get a bonus with most of the seed auctions I win. Usually 2-5 seeds of another daylily hybrid or extra seeds of the one I won.
When I got the bubble envie a few days later, she not only sent me 20 seeds of the one I won, but also 20 seeds each of two other crosses. One of the crosses had the pollen parent of the auction I lost, which will be a new intro of hers in 2014. I was after the pattern gene from that one! Well, she even went a step further for me and made sure that the two bonuses she sent me had Laughing Clown as the pod parent because it is an evergreen. If I had won the other auction, both parents were dormants. She thought that they might not thrive and survive as dormants in my zone. She made sure that both the bonuses had an evergreen pod parent! The auction I won also had one parent that is evergreen (which I knew when I bid on it)! Now this will really get you ... I paid less than $4 when I won the bid! I won a total of 60 seeds of several very, very nice spider crosses! I am lacking spider/UFO daylilies in my garden. I have a couple of plants, but I really want a few more. So I won a great auction that will provide me with PLENTY of spider daylilies.
Oh! And I am trying very hard to keep track of my seedlings. I needed info about her seedling parents (two of the crosses had a couple of her intros as pollen parents that haven't yet been named and registered), so she sent me all the info I needed about both of them. I can't imagine another seller topping that!
So I can highly recommend Daredevil (Linda Michaels) as a good seller ... for those that purchase seeds. (I might be the only one here that buys seeds instead of plants ... (sigh)).
