success rate with ordering online

I totally understand the kid in the candy store thing - I look at almost every new seed before it goes up on the site and I want almost everything I see.

Thanks everyone for the input on bitcoins - I understand it's really catching on & lots of seedbanks are moving that way as credit card processors are becoming a challenge to work with for anything that's on the edge of legal. I guess once everything's legalized & a little more legitimate - and they see all the money they're missing out on - the greedy b*stards will be all over it.

Well, my order has finished processing and is now marked as out for shipment! Unfortunately, there is no tracking once it leaves the UK so it just a matter of waiting now. I'll keep you all updated!

I live on the East Coast - last time I got something from the UK, it took 10 calendar days total which amazed me because I've had it take much longer.
Most sites say to give a UK to US shipment at least 21 days.

It can take much longer depending on how busy customs is - not sure if the holidays affect them like the regular mail, but I'd assume so.

Keep us posted - and hope you enjoy your new seeds.

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Originally Posted by KeiserSozeh

Yeah, the whole Bitcoin thing is a little daunting. ..

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Yeah, I'm new to all this stuff, never mined or anything, I'm just fascinated in the spread between the markets. look its trading at 617 on bitstamp at 610 on btc-e and 664 on MTGOX. i wish i could figure out how to cash in on the arbitrage. https://www.mtgox.com/ sorry to get off topic..

Yeah the volatility and spread is pretty amazing. My friend who I deal with has been able to make pretty decent profit, of course he has more experience and has been working it since the start. Currently he even has one of the 25gh/s units from Butterfly labs.

One thing he has been doing recently, is placing both a buy and sell order. He'll buy in when things hit a low, and sell when things go up. I know it sounds like a ridiculously easy plan, but since things can take a swing very rapidly its actually done pretty well for him. Me and him both believe that it will hit $1000 again, so he's bought in at $635 and plans to sell when it starts getting close to the high mark. I guess it's just a matter of faith if you believe it's something that's going to be around a while. Personally I think it'll be here for a long, long time, but as with most stuff, it's a waiting game to come out on top.

you make it sound like the forex market - the buy in at lows & sell at highs.

there are a ton of other profit making schemes with forex - maybe reading some of those would help you figure it out.

finance was never my strong suit, so i don't understand all the nuances.

"finance was never my strong suit, so i don't understand all the nuances. "

I definitely feel you on that. I actually avoided finance myself, as I considered all the markets to basically be big shell games and that the whole system was a scam. The big boys control the prices and suck people in, then inflate and deflate the market to pull out capital in cycles. I once worked with someone though who was a conspiracy theorist nut and he swore there was a secret numbers code to predict what would happen, so I got a little interested. Of course, this is the same financial genius who borrowed $100,000 from his credit cards and lost it all on the markets. So my interest waned, lmao.

At any rate, my shipment apparently hit New York this morning which is pretty awesome! Might actually make it before Christmas, or if not by the new year!

Awesome!

Hopefully, they'll arrive without any delay, but this is usually where it gets slow due to the wait in customs.

Greetings all! The delivery was attempted on 12.26.2013, unfortunately no one was at home when the mail guy came by. They are going to redeliver it SAT, and I've left instructions with the safe house to just sign the slip and have them leave the package on the front porch. I'm as excited as a schoolgirl at the junior dance.

Even though I haven't officially received the shipment as of yet I'm firmly believing everything is going to be hunky-dory. (It only sat in customs for 2-3 days, and one of those was Christmas day when I'm sure they were closed). When I do finally get the items, I will post pics of the breeders pack unopened. OP asked how things were packaged, but in respecting the selling business, I will not divulge anything other than the final sealed seeds. You can however, create an account with them, place a 'test' order, and view the stealth shipping options available. That's all I'm going to say about that.

I will add this for your consideration though, and this has been repeated in other post, but still worth mentioning here:
If anything does happen, it's limited to a seize and destroy order, and they send you a letter stating such. The only exception I've seen to this is that a doctor was busted who ordered something like 1500 seeds at once. Chances are, with a small order, and the stealth shipping you have nothing to worry about.
The feds have better things to spend limited resources on than trying to filter out 15 seeds. They still will if things are very obvious (1500 seeds), but times are changing for the better, and this is something I think personally, that is very low on the priority list.
And lastly, you have to consider Silk Road. It has been taken out, but it was a serious and long endevour to do so. During the time they were up and operational, it's estimated that they did almost a billion dollars in transactions, and these were all mail transactions. You have to imagine that if they were able to ship about a billion dollars of product, things slip through much more easily than all us paranoid fucks think about.

Just my two cents, have a good evening all!

Well, I officially have my seeds in hand! Everything went smoothly and I was able to pick them up from the delivery house today.

I'll post the pics I mentioned earlier of the breeders pack(s) when I can get the wife off her computer and I am able to upload them!