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Alfonso
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I have been asked by several people to post a thread that I wrote on another forum.
Hello,
On October 1st I discussed trading two NBS P. vietnamense with Patrick Mahon. He contacted me through Ebay and I agreed to trade them for a P. violascens and a P. javanicum. It has been almost two months that we have been in contact through e-mail and I have not received the plants he promised.
He told me he would send them out the next day after I contacted him - October 2 - and I told him that I would do the same. I sent them out and he told me he had received them and was very sorry he had not sent them out. He told me he would send them out the following week.
I waited a week until contacting him again and he told me that he was very sorry he had been sick and asked me if it was alright if he sent them out on Friday. I told him he could as long as he sent them overnight and I offered to pay for half of the shipping cost. He said he would ship them out Monday instead so they would not get stuck in a warehouse; I waited until that weekend to contact him thinking that I would receive the plants he promised by Saturday.
When I contacted him again he told me he was very busy with work and school and would ship them out as soon as possible, I told him that was fine. More time passed and he told me that all of his P. violascens died and asked if it would be possible to substitute them for a blooming size P. armeniacum, blooming size Orchid Zone P. spicerianum, or a "somewhat large" P. kolopakingii seedling. I told him the P. kolopakingii seedling would be fine. This was on November 6 and I knew I moved on the 19th and expected it to arrive at my house before then.
No package has arrived at the old house or my new house. I contacted him today November 24th to tell him that I moved and gave him my new address to ship them there and he said that he shipped them out - "the cheapest way I could" - USPS on November 13th, I have not received the plants, nor have I received any notes for packages, or actual packages at my old house. All of my mail since the 19th has been automatically forwarded to our new address so even if the package was sent to that address it would be forwarded to our new home, it has been 11 days since he said he sent it out and 5 since the mail began being forwarded to the new address. I or my parents have been there every day since we started moving into our new house and all of the times we have visited there has been nothing.
Has anyone dealt with Patrick Mahon before? I decided to look around and see if I could find anything about him on the internet and saw that he had posted some things here about trading and had also been banned. Prior to this experience, I felt safe dealing with other orchid people even though they were strangers – I thought all orchid people were good? Unfortunately, I have learned the hard way to research a person before trading with them.
Can anyone tell me anything about Patrick Mahon? Will I ever get my plants? I am frustrated and don’t know what to do.
HELP,
Alfonso
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I have called Patrick twice today on the telephone number he gave me through an e-mail and received no answer. I have sent him an e-mail informing him that if I do not have the plants he promised by Friday December 1st I am going to press mail fraud charges and contact the Sarasota Police Department.
This has not been a pleasant experience, but I am very grateful for all of the information and responses that I have received from everyone that has contacted me.
Alfonso
Hello,
On October 1st I discussed trading two NBS P. vietnamense with Patrick Mahon. He contacted me through Ebay and I agreed to trade them for a P. violascens and a P. javanicum. It has been almost two months that we have been in contact through e-mail and I have not received the plants he promised.
He told me he would send them out the next day after I contacted him - October 2 - and I told him that I would do the same. I sent them out and he told me he had received them and was very sorry he had not sent them out. He told me he would send them out the following week.
I waited a week until contacting him again and he told me that he was very sorry he had been sick and asked me if it was alright if he sent them out on Friday. I told him he could as long as he sent them overnight and I offered to pay for half of the shipping cost. He said he would ship them out Monday instead so they would not get stuck in a warehouse; I waited until that weekend to contact him thinking that I would receive the plants he promised by Saturday.
When I contacted him again he told me he was very busy with work and school and would ship them out as soon as possible, I told him that was fine. More time passed and he told me that all of his P. violascens died and asked if it would be possible to substitute them for a blooming size P. armeniacum, blooming size Orchid Zone P. spicerianum, or a "somewhat large" P. kolopakingii seedling. I told him the P. kolopakingii seedling would be fine. This was on November 6 and I knew I moved on the 19th and expected it to arrive at my house before then.
No package has arrived at the old house or my new house. I contacted him today November 24th to tell him that I moved and gave him my new address to ship them there and he said that he shipped them out - "the cheapest way I could" - USPS on November 13th, I have not received the plants, nor have I received any notes for packages, or actual packages at my old house. All of my mail since the 19th has been automatically forwarded to our new address so even if the package was sent to that address it would be forwarded to our new home, it has been 11 days since he said he sent it out and 5 since the mail began being forwarded to the new address. I or my parents have been there every day since we started moving into our new house and all of the times we have visited there has been nothing.
Has anyone dealt with Patrick Mahon before? I decided to look around and see if I could find anything about him on the internet and saw that he had posted some things here about trading and had also been banned. Prior to this experience, I felt safe dealing with other orchid people even though they were strangers – I thought all orchid people were good? Unfortunately, I have learned the hard way to research a person before trading with them.
Can anyone tell me anything about Patrick Mahon? Will I ever get my plants? I am frustrated and don’t know what to do.
HELP,
Alfonso
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I have called Patrick twice today on the telephone number he gave me through an e-mail and received no answer. I have sent him an e-mail informing him that if I do not have the plants he promised by Friday December 1st I am going to press mail fraud charges and contact the Sarasota Police Department.
This has not been a pleasant experience, but I am very grateful for all of the information and responses that I have received from everyone that has contacted me.
Alfonso
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