Greetings, Paul - you must have missed the multiple postings regarding Mr. Keller and his fraudulent trade offers. More than a few listers were burned in trades with Mr. Keller and I was almost one of them. In my case, I responded to Mr. Keller's offer of Haemanthus crispus. Mr. Keller asked me for Massonias in trade and I sent him 6 bulbs plus a small Eriospermum. Like the other trades, he claimed the package never arrived. Since I had confirmed delivery, I knew this was not the case. Once it was clear he was not going to be sending me a trade without encouragement, I offered to visit Mr. Keller at his home and personally assist him with returning my bulbs to me. After a series of varying responses, Mr. Keller finally notified me that he would be sending me 1/2 the bulbs we had agreed upon. Lo and behold, 2 large Haemanthus bulbs actually arrived a week later. Whether these bulbs are actually H. crispus I do not know yet. I have suspicions they may be bulbs he defrauded from another list member. Whether Mr. Keller was strategically unscrupulous or innocently demented I couldn't decide. -|<ipp > Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 13:26:45 -0700 > From: plicht@berkeley.edu > To: pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > Subject: [pbs] Problem with bulb offer > > Back in March, there was the following posting from a > Warren Keller offered some choice Haemanthus deformis bulbs > * > -------- Original Message -------- * > *Subject: * *[pbs] Haemanthus deformis* > *Date: * *Wed, 16 Mar 2011 12:10:20 -0700 (PDT)* > *From: * *Warren Keller <warren_keller@yahoo.com>* > *Reply-To: * *Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org>* > *To: * *pbs@lists.ibiblio.org <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org>* > > *Hello there, i have about 25 bulbs of Haemanthus deformis i > am selling from my collection, all are big mature sized > bulbs, i was asking 30 a piece, so i was just wanting to let > everyone know first on pbs, please email me for more info, i > live in california. Warren * > > I called this to the attention of one of our Garden people > who pursued the offer and after an active correspondence was > told he would need to send a money order in advance. I just > learned today that , unfortunately, after sending the money > order, he has never heard back from Mr. Keller: no bulbs, no > explanation and no response to monthly follow ups. > > BE WARNED! > > -- > Paul Licht, Director > University of California Botanical Garden > 200 Centennial Drive > Berkeley, CA 94720 > (510)-643-8999 > http://botanicalgarden.berkeley.edu/ > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/