Have you swapped with a forum member?

[Eric Locke]

Sorry to hear that others have had bad experiences too.
Perhaps I am old fasioned, but the minimum I would expect is a simple "thankyou" after someone has chased you to send them plants.

Eric

[Paddy Tobin]

Eric,

One would certainly expect that basic level of courtesy. Sorry to hear you have not received it but there are many perfectly genuine swappers on the forum also.

Paddy

[cohan]

Sorry to hear that others have had bad experiences too.
Perhaps I am old fasioned, but the minimum I would expect is a simple "thankyou" after someone has chased you to send them plants.
Eric

i don't think that's an unreasonable minimum expectation! hopefully the positive experiences will outweigh the bad eggs, overall...

[gote]

I herewith apologize for any lack of acknowledgement.
I have sent to a large number of people and received from many (I have an export surplus  )
However, I have up to a quarter hundred of e-mails coming in every day but I am not there to read all days.
(Is not a quarter hundred a much larger figure than a mere 25??  )
I might well have overlooked an incoming mail
I might well have confused who of all correspondents who sent me some seed.
(Quite number of posters post under pseudonym and that is confusing)
I might well have lost the address.
I might have forgotten who should have the seed or whatever.
I might have had a crop failuere.   
mea culpa mea maxima culpa
Göte
PS
But I DO answer inquiries if I forgot to acknowledge.
 

[Paddy Tobin]

OK Gote,

No need to beat yourself up. All is forgiven.

Paddy

[cohan]

well, yes, gote, but i don't think forgetful or preoccupied (which i'm sure many of us are) is the same   as rude-- if you respond to an inquiry, that's the key..

my biggest culpa is being slow to get the darn seed packaged and out the door!

[Michael J Campbell]

I have a file named ,Forum Members Requests, and  when any member asks for something I enter their name and address and the name of the plant or seed requested and the date. When the plant or seed is ready I send them a PM telling them that I intend to send by first post Monday morning ( I always post on Monday morning to allow for delivery before the weekend) and ask them to advise me when they have taken delivery. (THEY USUALLY DO) I then put dispatched and the date after their name on the file. If I have the plant or seed to hand at the time of the request I post it the following Monday morning. This system works fine for me and is almost foolproof.

[Lesley Cox]

But you are wonderfully organized Michael. I can identify with Cohan's problem. Seed is harvested then has to be cleaned and packeted then sent. Gentiana went out last week but Saponaria and a snowdrop bulb are still to go. Later today or tomorrow I hope. I too have the folder with Forumist's requests (or my promises) but sometimes I forget to make the relevant entry

[fermi de Sousa]

But you are wonderfully organized Michael. I can identify with Cohan's problem. Seed is harvested then has to be cleaned and packeted then sent. Gentiana went out last week but Saponaria and a snowdrop bulb are still to go. Later today or tomorrow I hope. I too have the folder with Forumist's requests (or my promises) but sometimes I forget to make the relevant entry

ohhh, errrrr
that reminds me sorry, Lesley!
 
fermi

[Maggi Young]

Oh, dear, this is bringing out a lot of guilt around the place, obviously!
This is going to sound truly pathetic ( and IT IS!!) but I never thought to make a list on the 'pooter'      I  can only think that I spend so much time 'pootering' for everything else that I don't think of it in my "own" sphere! SOOOO feeble. 

I write these things on  paper.... and try to keep track..... often failing miserably, I'm sure.
For instance, I have seed of Crinodendron hookerianum still waiting here to be sent to Jamie V. because I thought I'd wait and send it with the cutting material I was also going to send, but I forget what put paid to that idea at the time so the seeds are still here and the cuttings were not taken. 

[Michael J Campbell]

Maggi,I like your new avatar. Although I said at the end of my post that my system was almost foolproof,I should have added that nothing is foolproof to a suitable talented fool.

[Maggi Young]

Thank you , Michael. 

 I must say, your last comment on your system  does give me hope, since I am as talented a twerp as you are likely to find, so I could never hope to cope!

[Michael J Campbell]