Comments regarding Fruit Lover's Nursery

I placed three orders with this company. All three orders were a negative experience. One of the orders, Marang, was in season, but never sent. Durian seeds were black on the outside, rotten at the tip. Seeds that were shipped were in plastic ziploc bags, with no vermiculite, in an envelope. When I received the first rotten order, I thought it may have been because it sat in my mail for a little under two hours. When the third order arrived in the same condition, with my receiving the shipment directly from the mailman, I was able to determine that it wasn't my mailbox. I kept a cross section of one of the durian seeds, for future reference, to compare it to other Durian seed shipments from other seed suppliers.

As for communication, with the second and third order I asked for the Marang seeds to be sent, knowing that they were in season, and thinking that maybe the seller had just forgotten. There was no reply to emails.

When I received that third order and was sure that it was not my mailbox cooking and causing the seeds to rot, I contacted the seller. No reply. I filed a complaint on Paypal, including pictures. I was awarded a refund for one of the orders. Then I received several replies from the seller. I'll leave it at this: The seller is not very pleasant, and doesn't like it when people report the poor quality of their product.

I purchased seeds from this business based on the review of a trusted nursery, and that there were 100% positive feedback here on Dave's garden. I've since done a google search on the business and found 100% negative reviews elsewhere.

I've also been attacked on a fruit forum (without my ever mentioning the business name) for not being satisfied with this business.
This has caused nothing but more dissatsfaction for this business.

The one good outcome of this bad experience:
It motivated me to ignore resellers, and go directly to the people who grow the cultivars that I like.
It wasn't hard for me to get the permits to import seeds.
[HYPERLINK@www.aphis.usda.gov]
My local agricultural representatives are a pleasure to talk to, and a great source of information.
I'm also spending far less in going directly to the people growing the fruit.
Another bonus is seeing pictures of the actual fruit that produced my seeds, and hearing what it tastes like from the person who lovingly raised it! That is wonderful, and makes me so happy.
So I'll have to thank this business for being such a bad experience, that I'm now doing something I should have done all along, and support good people, who grow good fruit <3