RE: [Aroid-l] Mini rant

From: "Harry Witmore" <harrywitmore at witmore.net> on 2004.11.03 at 22:52:42(12336) I agree with Michael on this. If you are selling anything anywhere, marketing is one of the aspects and we all know that marketing is not always based on the absolute truth. So, I don't see any problem using the word rare for something as long as the picture is not deceiving. I have purchased many things from many people on Ebay and it's pretty easy to tell those that are trying to sell and be honest and those that are not. So, I think if you have issues with what folks do on eBay you have an up hill battle and selling Aroids is a pretty small part of the problem. I imagine that some of the tubers we sale here as rare are eaten as food elsewhere so where do you draw the line. Leave it up to each buyer to make up his or her mind as to what is rare to them. +More ________________________________________ On Behalf Of RAYMOMATTLA@cs.com Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 8:28 PM To: aroid-l@gizmoworks.com Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] Mini rant A plant that grows an unusually large, sometimes grotesque, sometimes phallic, most times very beautiful inflorescence....with a solitary umbrella like leaf that can get as tall or taller than a man.....that is by most people's standards bizarre. Seems like adding bizarre or rare in front of a rather uncommon, unusual or out of the norm plant's name is a marketing technique that works rather well and doesnt fool anyone. As long as the plant being marketed is the plant you get I dont see a problem with it. _______________________________________________ Aroid-l mailing list Aroid-l@gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l

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