ChefDaves giant twin trunk trident

Tom420

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Concorde

Considering ChefDave had 90% of his bonsai stolen, I wonder why the thief missed this great tree. By the way, Chef Dave stiffed me for $800.00 for two bonsai I purchased on Ebay. Still waiting for the two trees.

ElGringo

Hi Tom and Dave,

I've seen this tree already and I love it. Here's a virt. I think many people may be critical of this tree as the trunks don't separate at ground level, but if the height of the daughter trunk is kept at a height of 1/3 of the main trunk then it will look more balanced. I think any taller and the tree may appear to have reverse taper or otherwise look unbalanced... I think it looks most effective when the daughter trunk comes on the left as it's closer to the main trunk and best compliments the movement of the tree.

Also, increase the strength of the lowest branch on the main trunk, and generally develop pads on the whole tree. Furthermore, I think you need to make an angled cut on the back of the trunk chop to make it less visible.

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Wen

Concorde I understand how you feel. He lost all his trees? I feel for the guy, but then my katsura maple did end up at his house last year thanks to UPS and never made it back to me. A similar one did end up on his ebay listings a few weeks ago.

Jay

Concorde, I'm an ebay seller. If ChefDave had his trees stolen, that is a problem and a great loss. BUT...the loss is not yours....He should immediately return your money in total if you desire. You should not have to wait for anything....
Did you pay with Paypal? I would ask for an immediate refund and if not report to Ebay and Paypal.

If ChefDave is a good eBayer, and at this point I have no reason to believe otherwise, he will gladly return your money. I have had items lost in shipping and felt it was my problem not the buyers...I'm sure ChefDave will do the right thing..... negative feedback is to be avoided at all cost
Jay

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ozzy

Always pay by credit card over the net and the bank will reimburse you if you report the money as stolen and as Jay said I believe Paypal to have some sort of policy on that too, plus they have the facilities to go after shonky crooks.

RyanFrye

I too sell bonsai and related items on ebay. If what has been said is true, It would be good for some positive peer pressure to be placed on Chef by other sellers who go out of their way to surve their bonsai enthusiast customers. I for one think that who ever purchased a tree and did not get it from this seller should recieve their full refund. Sounds logical and fair to me. It is unfortunate that Chef's trees were stolen, but that's not the buyers fault.

I am tired of the bonsai community viewing ebay sellers as rip-off crooks that sell only junk and this situation just doesn't help matters. What a shame....

Wen

"ChefDave" or "4yearsclean" is no longer a registered user of ebay, but knowing ebay this is probably a temporary thing. He was suspended a while back also for shill bidding, when he was using "bonsaicrazedgranny" and his "3yearsclean" account to hike up his own prices. But I'm sure he meant well

irene_b

If 90% of his bonsai were stolen why has there been no mention of this?
Most would list this somewhere so we would be on the lookout for "Stolen trees".
Irene

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