Sorry Brian, Heidiââ"šÂ¬Ã¢"žÂ¢s not here to stop me and I think I have a problem. I think I am a debateoholic, I love to debate. :wildone:
Mike, I take the joust comment back you are going to have to do better than that.
What about the morphology of that anemone is different from a BTA? If nothing, then It's a BTA. Divides by fission, tenticles are bulbous with slender tips, roghly grapefruit sized (not that size is a great indicator, but compared to most tulip anemones...). BTAs are not rare. Orange with green BTAs and pink with green BTAs are not rare anymore. Maby his anemone was considered rare in the hobby 2 years ago, but not now. Can anyone who has seen it explain to us how it's different from a BTA? That would clarify.
Please show me at least one statement made by the seller or anyone who has seen the actual animal (not a pic) that states it is not a bta. This appears to be an assumption that was made up by someone here on the boards that everyone else keeps grabbing onto. It has been stated by the seller and others that it is not an rbta but the seller did state in his listing that it is a ââ"šÂ¬Ã…"œbubble anemoneââ"šÂ¬Ã‚Â, which if you are going to draw the conclusion that he is representing the anemone as some new species then you can also assume that bubble anemone means a bta. I ask you, would a new colored bta not be rare? If not, then why were rbta costing as much as $300 about a year ago and now that supply has caught up with demand they are a little as $15? You say orange and green bta are not rare anymore, when was this color orange even an option? No one here can say they have seen this color orange on a bta.
Well, all of his statements that I quoted are opinion, in my opinion. I guess my point there is that there's very little factual information in his auction description about the anemone itself. No info + no good pic + $1200 = threads like this.
My mistake, I thought your point was in response to my question about dishonest or fraudulent statements made by the seller. Since your point was to show what little factual info he had in the listing (which has never been disputed by anyone), do you consider these statements to be dishonest or fraudulent? If not, do you see anything in the listing that is?
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But, "rare" aside, those auction have decent pics, and it looks like a good attempt to identify the species
But is it dishonest or fraudulent? And why only pick on this one guy, there are others, I have proven that. Is it because of the price? Of course it is!!!!!
The anemone would cost me 2 1/2 months worth of groceries. When I found out the monties were common, it wouldn't be such a big deal. If I found out the anemone was a BTA, I'd be driving to CO.
Would you consider a different color bta, which only a handful of people have, to be rare? Would you consider the White Bengal Tiger to be rare? After all it is only a color morph of the Bengal Tiger and there were only 30 in 1998 (larger number than what we have established for this anemone). And I am sure you could get a lot of people on the board to say they have seen a White Bengal Tiger.
Plus, I don't want to get PitBull too mad at me. If those anemones turn out to be something special, I might want to buy one someday-if I could afford one, that is.
How can they ever be special, they are only a bta?
So all this said and done is the seller a fraud or being dishonest and should be ridiculed (over and over again)? Or is he just not very good at listing items on eBay and some people very passionate about the hobby have over reacted?
I am sure I will not get answers to all of my questions (I never do), but if nothing else it is food for thought.
