FreakShow Posted March 15, 2007 Share Posted March 15, 2007 No not for you silly....for me! I just scored five "true" Purple People Eaters for $6.50. Thats right....seeeeeexfiddy sheeped... So last night I went out to my front garden to put on the sprinklers and I noticed a fedex package on the front porch. It was addressed to me and was a perishables box? Hmmmm. Had my wife surprised me with some corals? Unlikely. She usually gives me a gift certificate or cash so that I can get what I want. I took the box in and opened it. Sure enough it was full of coral. Palys I thought. About six bags. I immediately ran to the computer to see if I had done any late night sleep bidding on eBay. Nothing there. I checked me email to see if I had forgotten any old transactions. No. I did not recognize the name on the return address. It was in GA, the state I currently live in. I called the number and a guy answered. I asked for the female name on the return label. The guy sound a little put off and asked what I wanted to talk with her about. I explained that I had received this box of coral I hadn't ordered. His tone changed and he said he would have his partner call me back. Apparently a company I had ordered a cleaner package from a month earlier had mistakenly placed my address on a package full of PPEs bound for someone else’s tank. The return name I believe was one of the owner’s wives who was helping with shipping. When it was all said an done, Stan of Reef Creatures Unlimited in Sharpsburg GA asked me to send the package back ground, and for my trouble, keep a 5 polyped frag. Shipping was $6.50! Now I know what some of you starving dirt bag reefers are probably thinking, "why didn't you just keep all those PPEs and sell and trade a few here on NR." Well thats just not how this freak likes to role. And if you were waiting on a package of PPEs fromn Stan....sorry, they took a little detour...into my tank! Very nias... Link to comment
mvite Posted March 15, 2007 Share Posted March 15, 2007 Whoa---SCORE!!!!!! C'mon over in the PPE aquaculture forum and let's watch 'em grow. Holy schnikies----that's great!! Link to comment
PieNinja Posted March 15, 2007 Share Posted March 15, 2007 NICEEEE... You struck the jackpot! Nice that they let you keep a frag of it for the mixup. Link to comment
alienup Posted March 15, 2007 Share Posted March 15, 2007 no not cool they guy should have just said keep them now he made you go out of your way to send them back ground were they will most likely die? the nice thing would have been to give you all them. but still nice score but you have to see what im saying. he would rater see them dead then give it to someone for free. Link to comment
formerly icyuodd/icyoud2 Posted March 15, 2007 Share Posted March 15, 2007 so according to ebay you just scored approx $1500 worth of coral with those ppe's (seen them go for $300 a polyp. nice score! Link to comment
Qwank Posted March 15, 2007 Share Posted March 15, 2007 i bet he'll never let his wife help with the shipping again Link to comment
Ebn Posted March 26, 2007 Share Posted March 26, 2007 Dude, that package needs to take another detour! Link to comment
Alexraptor Posted March 26, 2007 Share Posted March 26, 2007 what, and stress the poor frags out even more? Link to comment
epicfish Posted March 26, 2007 Share Posted March 26, 2007 what, and stress the poor frags out even more? I hate you now! Lucky duck! Link to comment
Ebn Posted March 27, 2007 Share Posted March 27, 2007 Stress is good; it gets them to go into overdrive. Link to comment
Absinthe Posted March 27, 2007 Share Posted March 27, 2007 You got MY PPEs!!!! Not really. Very nice of you though. Link to comment
myrxseven Posted March 27, 2007 Share Posted March 27, 2007 I actually got one of these today with like 12 polyps for free. And I didnt notice till i got home and went aclimate the xenia I bought for 10 dollars. When I poured out the bag into my drip container there was a second frag. So 2 frags for the price of one. Link to comment
xmen0075 Posted March 27, 2007 Share Posted March 27, 2007 You're a good man--Charlie Brown! Link to comment
djchristone Posted March 27, 2007 Share Posted March 27, 2007 The return name I believe was one of the owner’s wives what country do YOU live in? O.O i want multiple wives haha jk that'd be surround sound b****ing Link to comment
travisurfer Posted March 28, 2007 Share Posted March 28, 2007 you suck; however, for the cost of one ppe shipped to me door, you can change my opinion. Link to comment
The Propagator Posted March 28, 2007 Share Posted March 28, 2007 GOOD JOB FREAK !!! You helped some one get the coral they ordered and paid for and inreturn you got some SMOKING HOT PPE !!! I am faxing you a beer as I type ! Link to comment
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