You using a word “liar” very easy. What did not you believe in our conversation? Let me guess…

Fact that I have a supplier in Greece?

 You do believe that you one and only?

Guess what – it is another seller on eBay right now- listings are identical – word by word. Who is a “copycat”, you or him?

 By the way I got many, many emails, asking me about my supplier contact information after my post about importing fig cuttings from Greece.

 And I did pay $ 5 each, even if you do not want to believe it, it is still a fact. Tell me, how long 3 words “rare fig variety” will be used in the same sentence if I will spread his contact information around.

We all want to be exclusive owners of rare variety, but everybody entitled to” change of heart” situation.  

Okay, this wasn't really meant so much as a discussion thread.  I just wanted to get the word out to protect those that might be defrauded.

abcd/Alex/2014.gulen isn't happy about this thread and we communicated by PM in a cordial manner but he wasn't really willing to answer questions I asked to get down to the basics of my concerns.  He maintains that he is only selling correctly-labeled varieties.  I won't go into other details of our messages since they were sent under the premise of being private, though there was anything significant that was discussed anyways.

Alex has some sort of relationship with someone who I will just call "Kate".  Some people have suggested that Alex and Kate are the same person but I don't believe so.  However, Alex's email address and PayPal address contain the same personalized elements that make up one of the eBay accounts of Kate, atskor10/atskor8.  This eBay account shows a location of Brooklyn, NY.  Kate also has eBay accounts under the name of katerina-2009 (Moscow, PA) and katerina77-2008 (Brooklyn, NY) with all three being tied to the same PayPal account.  Today I bought cuttings from korina-2009 and I also bought a Red Lebanse cutting from koria77-2008 and she later wrote me to ask why I bought it when I was already selling Red Lebanese.  I pointed out that I was selling Lebanse Red and explained that these are different figs.  I then asked why she she used three eBay accounts and asked why she would buy UCR 184-15 from me under the atskor10 account and then turn around and sell the same variety under her korina-2009 account.  We ended our discussion with her suggestion that I mind my own business.  I would like eBay to be a safe trading platform so helping prevent others from being defrauded is my business, IMO.

There might be other accounts associated with these individuals, but I just don't have any evidence of that at this time.  I also have no proof that the cuttings any of these users are selling are actually mislabeled cuttings but it seems obvious that the methods they're using are highly questionable, at best.  I will grow out the cuttings Kate is sending me and report back in a year or two.

Danny has put together a very good set of guidelines for buying figs on the Internet and it seems the listings under the four eBay accounts listed in this thread all get a lot of red flags when reading Danny's guidelines.  Most of this is common sense, IMO, but different people have different skills and just don't think of some of these things on their own, I guess, so I highly recommend using Danny's guide closely to help wade through the eBay marketplace carefully.

Good luck!  How about those figs??!! :)

I'm glad you pulled that all together Harvey.  As I had mentioned in my earlier post in this thread, I suspected Korina was the same person.  Thanks for raising the red flag.