Americans Report Receiving Mystery Seeds from China

[countrygirl12]

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I read that so far they seem to be vegetable and/or flower seeds but all have not been examined or tested.  The article admonished folks to not use or plant them as some could be for invasive plants.

At least one woman said she planted them. And she was not worried about it.

None of this makes sense to me, but my husband read the same (or similar) article.  The basic gist was that if you receive a package, you are considered a "verified" buyer and the sender can then write a paid review in your name. Maybe this "sender" in essence, is stealing your identity and playing like YOU are the one writing a review. A review on "what", is my question.  What a mess! That's a lot of trouble to go to, to write a paid review!

I have saw a couple of different articles. The review thing is what they think it is .  What happens is they have a verified shipment to your address. So they write a review of whatever product giving 5 stars and raving positivity.  It is nothing harmful or some evil scary tactic.  Do you not look at reviews before you purchase stuff? Are you not more likely to buy a 5 star whatever than a no star or 2 star?  It is just a way to boost their company.  Plus if your item has 5 stars it will show up at the top and be the one people are more likely to buy.  I look now more than ever on where stuff comes from.  Sadly when I looked for stylus ink pens a few months ago every single place on Amazon that sold them it was coming from China. Or it shipped from Amazon but the owner was in China.

The seeds are super cheap to ship.  They have identified all the seeds and it is a mixture of flower seeds and herbs.  And not only do they do the review thing but they got people all freaked out.  Another plus for them.

[CatMeow109]

What are these seeds?

[aflyingmonkey]

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I read that so far they seem to be vegetable and/or flower seeds but all have not been examined or tested.  The article admonished folks to not use or plant them as some could be for invasive plants.

At least one woman said she planted them. And she was not worried about it.

None of this makes sense to me, but my husband read the same (or similar) article.  The basic gist was that if you receive a package, you are considered a "verified" buyer and the sender can then write a paid review in your name. Maybe this "sender" in essence, is stealing your identity and playing like YOU are the one writing a review. A review on "what", is my question.  What a mess! That's a lot of trouble to go to, to write a paid review!

Interesting... and that makes a lot of sense. People always figuring out how to cheat the system to their benefit.
If those sellers ship to the US from China they benefit from those ePackets, which are subsidized postage from the Chinese government, & price negotiated with the US Post Office basically free postage. 

[ccandpam]

I just heard my Husband talking about this with a Friend. It is so scary. I sure hope that the Farmers of America does not plant them.

[UGetPaid]

So they write a review of whatever product giving 5 stars and raving positivity.  It is nothing harmful or some evil scary tactic.  Do you not look at reviews before you purchase stuff? Are you not more likely to buy a 5 star whatever than a no star or 2 star?  It is just a way to boost their company. 

Not harmful, per se, but extremely dishonest and deceptive - which I would consider an "evil scary tactic" - though not in the same sense that the conspiracy theorists would have it.


I almost always make my purchase decisions on Amazon based on price + positive reviews and I always read positive and negative reviews of everything there. Sellers that harvest false positive reviews are not where I want to send my business. I bought an inexpensive item through Amazon a few years ago based on many positive customer reviews it had. When it arrived (from China) there was a note included that said they would refund my full purchase price if I left a review on Amazon or Twitter and provided a screen shot.


So I figured, why not? and I shot off a tweet - not overly praising the item, but an honest short positive remark. I screenshot and sent it to the email included on the note insert. They replied that I needed to leave the review on Amazon as a Verified Purchaser to get my refund. I then copied my twitter review and pasted it as a Verified Purchase review on Amazon; and screenshot it. They replied that my review was not positive enough and asked me to say more and recommend the product highly. It then dawned on me that the many positive reviews I had read which convinced me to buy that item were likely harvested the same way from other buyers. By this time, I had used the item regularly and although it was adequate, but FAR from the greatest thing since sliced bread that all of the reviews made it seem and I felt like I had been dishonestly duped. It had some drawbacks and design flaws that were not mentioned in any of the reviews I'd read.


So I amended my Amazon review of the product and wrote some very positive recommendations of the item. I submitted that update to the Chinese company, waited for my refund credit to arrive (which came within a few days), and then I promptly deleted my review hoping that nobody else was convinced in the interim to buy that *bleep* product based on my recommendation.

[ghunter]

I heard that, but I would never plant them.  It is a little scary to think China would do such a little.

[PGS28]

And some people are actually planting them!! I can understand the curious ones who planted before being warned but people are still planting them smh

[PGS28]

I just recently read about the bracelets, I feel like there's a sadistic motive here.

I have had people in my state and near where I live receiving them as well as other things like bracelets.

[PGS28]

This was a relief to read, but i still hope people stop planting them.

T

I read that so far they seem to be vegetable and/or flower seeds but all have not been examined or tested.  The article admonished folks to not use or plant them as some could be for invasive plants.

At least one woman said she planted them. And she was not worried about it.

None of this makes sense to me, but my husband read the same (or similar) article.  The basic gist was that if you receive a package, you are considered a "verified" buyer and the sender can then write a paid review in your name. Maybe this "sender" in essence, is stealing your identity and playing like YOU are the one writing a review. A review on "what", is my question.  What a mess! That's a lot of trouble to go to, to write a paid review!

I have saw a couple of different articles. The review thing is what they think it is .  What happens is they have a verified shipment to your address. So they write a review of whatever product giving 5 stars and raving positivity.  It is nothing harmful or some evil scary tactic.  Do you not look at reviews before you purchase stuff? Are you not more likely to buy a 5 star whatever than a no star or 2 star?  It is just a way to boost their company.  Plus if your item has 5 stars it will show up at the top and be the one people are more likely to buy.  I look now more than ever on where stuff comes from.  Sadly when I looked for stylus ink pens a few months ago every single place on Amazon that sold them it was coming from China. Or it shipped from Amazon but the owner was in China.

The seeds are super cheap to ship.  They have identified all the seeds and it is a mixture of flower seeds and herbs.  And not only do they do the review thing but they got people all freaked out.  Another plus for them.

[mrisha]

I've never hear of these seeds, but I would be very leery about seeds from China.