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VFT Green Dragon giveaway

Edit and Update-- That was quick! Thanks to those who responded so quickly, within one hour I have as many requests as I can fill. Those who have written to me will receive private messages.

This offer is now closed. But I will be offering other giveaways a little later in the year. Best wishes, Steve/xscd

The original post and offer appear below


I will soon have several lots (2-4) of extra-stock Green Dragon Venus Flytraps to ship to new homes in exchange for shipping costs only. The details--

* The person or persons who wish to have the plants must have a PayPal account to pay for the shipping cost (about $5.00) and live in the continental U.S.

* Each lot will contain probably 1-3 dozen plants of various sizes from small and young to large and mature, so a person has to be prepared to take on the care of several dozen new plants all at once. I will not split lots in order to ship to more people. I'm trying to keep this simple and easy on myself, having learned from past experience.
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* The VFTs will be shipped from eastern New Mexico, and will be shipped by U.S. Postal Service Priority mail to U.S. locations only (usually 2 days to nearby states, 3 or 4 to states more distant from New Mexico).

* Send me a private email if interested. I can only pick several people to ship to, so I will probably choose those whose private messages are the most appealing or persuasive to me.
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These are good-looking, vigorous Green Dragon VFTs that have been in my care for two years.

In addition to these, a little later in the year I will have some lots of mixed VFTs for giveaway that will include the following varieties: Big Mouth, Dente, Fang, Blood Red Traps, Banded, and possibly several others. I'll make a separate announcement about these at that time here at the TerraForums CP Trading Post.

Best wishes all--

Steve D, New Mexico, US
Pics of a few of my VFTs/CPs
 
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pm sent sorry alittle late.
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xscd- Thanks a lot for making this great offer. I didn't manage to make in on time this time, but hopefully I will in the future. Thanks for your generousity and congrats to people who made it!

Now FOLKS: Read the post that the offering party has made. I checked this earlier and it was done, and now I'm seeing more posts in here saying that they've emailed xscd. There is a big, bolded few lines up top saying that the offer is up; PLEASE be respectful and read the post before contacting the offering party.
 
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I checked this earlier and it was done, and now I'm seeing more posts in here saying that they've emailed xscd. There is a big, bolded few lines up top saying that the offer is up; PLEASE be respectful and read the post before contacting the offering party.

Thank you Est.
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Yes, the offer is now closed. Five people will each receive a group of these VFTs. I'm sorry I can't fulfill everyone's request, but I will have more VFTs to offer for giveaway in groups a little later this season (probably in a month or so).

The next time I make an offer I'll post a notice some days in advance saying exactly when I will list my next giveaways, so that people who are really interested can hopefully login a little early and respond quickly when the offer appears. Those giveaways will include Dente, Big Mouth, Fang, Blood Red Traps, and Banded VFTs, and possibly a few other varieties.

Best wishes all, and apologies to those whose requests I couldn't fill at this time.
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-Steve/xscd
New Mexico, US
 
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The Green Dragon VFTs that I offered in this giveaway have been shipped this afternoon, Monday, July 31, 2006, in five packages bound for Pennsylvania, Georgia, Florida, Oklahoma and Nebraska.
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To those who receive the packages, please let me know when they arrive and if they are (hopefully) in good shape. Then you can reimburse me $5 for shipping via PayPal. Thanks!

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Followup--

4 out of the five TerraForums members I sent these groups of VFTs to have let me know that they have received them (in good shape, thank goodness) in the last couple days (they were shipped Monday, July 31 and receieved 2 or 3 days later, on Wednesday and Thursday), and three of those four have already reimbursed me by PayPal.

The last and 5th person wrote me a note saying he would be out of town for a week, which caused me to wonder why he wanted me to ship some VFTs to him if he was not going to be there to receive them. In addition, in response to my message that they had been shipped and asking for reimbursment for shipping via PayPal (I stipulated in the original offer at the beginning of this thread/topic that any prospective recipient must have a PayPal account), he wrote back a one-line: "I don't know how to use PayPal."

Edit-- this 5th person wrote me a note later the same day I posted this message and said that although he's traveling, there was someone at home who had received the plants and said they looked in great shape, and who he asked to put them in some water in a shady place until he gets back home in about 5 days (not optimal by any means, but better than the plants staying in their shipping box during that time with no fresh air and no light). He said he would send cash for shipping when he gets home, since he doesn't do PayPal.

I think that in the future I'm going to ask for the shipping fee first, as a prerequisite when I offer plants for free giveaway--and as the Trading Post guidelines suggest and I should have done in the first place.

In addition, out of courtesy to PetFlyTrap.com, I won't offer any more Green Dragon VFTs (I hadn't read that in the guidelines at the time, and I apologize to the moderators and owners of PetFlyTrap.com).

The people I promise to send plants to will have to trust that I will actually send the plants, but I have a few good character witnesses in TerraForums now.

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Just to clarify a point, the person I'm speaking about above is not one of the people whose posts and nicknames appear in this topic. He wrote to me only by private message and email.

Anyway, to the other 4, thanks and I hope you enjoy the plants.

-Steve/xscd
New Mexico, US
 
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