- Sat Dec 12, 2020 5:26 am
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I can't find the International Shop anywhere and was wondering if they stopped doing it?
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Matt wrote: ↑Sat Dec 12, 2020 5:21 pm You are correct. We no longer ship outside of the US. Too many international customers were not receiving their orders and we were losing a lot of product and shipping charges when people would request refunds.Customs. They're a necessary evil but they do suck for plant orders. I've received those "Rose of jericho" things from China and to get around a phytosanitary, they dried them and declared them as "Dried flower". Went right through. So maybe FTS could ship seeds/dried propagules?
Jonathan_ wrote: ↑Sat Dec 12, 2020 11:36 pmBecause they are not plants are you able to ship VFT Seed Internationally?International shipping of seeds isn't a big problem. I shipped a bunch of flytrap seeds to a guy in Slovenia a couple months ago, took about 10 days to arrive via First Class Mail.
Jonathan_ wrote:I am looking for Rehder Giant 3 and Rehder Giant 2 and Rehder Giant 1 cultivar seedlings.Seedlings are still plants, and they're subject to the phytosanitary restrictions.
MikeB wrote: ↑Sun Dec 13, 2020 12:05 amI meant to "seeds" not "seedlings"Jonathan_ wrote: ↑Sat Dec 12, 2020 11:36 pmBecause they are not plants are you able to ship VFT Seed Internationally?Jonathan_ wrote:I am looking for Rehder Giant 3 and Rehder Giant 2 and Rehder Giant 1 cultivar seedlings.
hungry carnivores wrote:Customs. They're a necessary evil but they do suck for plant orders. I've received those "Rose of jericho" things from China and to get around a phytosanitary, they dried them and declared them as "Dried flower". Went right through. So maybe FTS could ship seeds/dried propagules?I honestly don't know if the majority of the problems we had happened with customs or not. The tracking information usually indicated when packages were delivered to customs. Some did get stopped there. However, some cleared customs and then the tracking updating stopped. I think either the mail personnel in some countries is corrupt or the people ordering from us just lied about whether or not the seeds were actually delivered. The same goes with the TC cultures I sent overseas.
MikeB wrote:International shipping of seeds isn't a big problem. I shipped a bunch of flytrap seeds to a guy in Slovenia a couple months ago, took about 10 days to arrive via First Class Mail.This is absolutely true and I'd guess somewhere on the order of 90% of our seeds that we've shipped internationally have been delivered. I've probably shipped over 1000 orders to nearly every country in the world at this point. There are certainly a few "problem" countries though. And sometimes you end up with people who simply want to scam on the international level. We sell out our FTS Venus flytrap seeds every year (except last year, which I donated to the FTC Seed Bank), so there's no reason for me to risk shipping overseas and losing money when we have virtually no problems shipping within the US.
Jonathan_ wrote: ↑Sun Dec 13, 2020 5:42 am @MikeBThey were Venus flytrap seeds and some Sarracenia flava seeds. I didn't get any Drosera capillaris seeds this year, still working on reviving my 'Emerald's Envy' and 'Long Arm' plants (from Florida).
What kind of seed have you sent? I am on the lookout for some D.capillaris with location data of NC.
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