Acquiring Neofinetias Via EBay

[Jayfar]

Originally Posted by AnonYMouse

Does anyone know if Hakuseiryu is suppose to be a screw leaf (aren't -ryu's generally)? Mine isn't. But like the Karanishiki, its not a full length leaf either. I like it better.

The Hakuseiryu pics google finds on a couple Russian forums shows straight leaves and the New World Orchids listing doesn't mention leaf shape.

Two screw leafs that come to mind are Seiryujishi and Daiseiryu (which SE describes as a big type of Seiryujishi), both of which are also needle leaf.

I remember one other really gnarly twisted leaf variety was discussed here a while back, but the name escapes me; I just remember that the one posted on ebay at the time looked like it had been beaten with an ugly stick.



I think Matt has a bunch of screw leafs.

EDIT: Heck yeah he does:

Contorted and Twisted Neofinetia falcata

[Call_Me_Bob]

Originally Posted by Jayfar

My eye is on that diminutive, but beautifully tiger variegated, Kara Nishiki for tomorrow, even though I already have a much bigger, longer leafed version of same. See my other thread with question about variations in size.

Neofinetiafalcata Beautiful Tiger Stripe Japaneseorchid

Had my eye on that one too! It's a beaut!

[Pilot]

Nope! I made if through with my money! Oh, except for the box coming from NWO.... Kristen is very persuasive.


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[MattWoelfsen]

Yeah, I knew I didn't have to announce my wins! I was watching the Hime-Kaioumaru, I thought I recognized your eBay sign! I got interested in the Yaegoromo when I saw it on the "Ancient Fukiran" thread.

I saw your thread on the Kara Nishiki, that one up for auction is a nice plant. I don't have this plant so I could not opine what size it should be. That is part of the Neofinetia allure, so many mutations, it's a wonder people can keep each variety identified.

Good to know you have a lot of discipline not pressing the "confirm bid" button Ryan. So what did you get from NWO?

[Pilot]

A 9 growth kinrokamu and another I can't remember at the moment.


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[MattWoelfsen]

Originally Posted by Call_Me_Bob

Had my eye on that one too! It's a beaut!

Oh oh Jayfar sounds like you are going to have some competition for the Kara Nishiki!

[Jayfar]

Originally Posted by MattWoelfsen

Oh oh Jayfar sounds like you are going to have some competition for the Kara Nishiki!

Naw, I'll be unleashing the dreaded bullet-proof bid on this one.

[Jayfar]

Originally Posted by MattWoelfsen

Oh oh Jayfar sounds like you are going to have some competition for the Kara Nishiki!

Originally Posted by Jayfar

Naw, I'll be unleashing the dreaded bullet-proof bid on this one.

Originally Posted by Call_Me_Bob

I'll let you guys fight over it, I know better than to try and win it from Jay! Hopefully you get it cheap!

Whoa!!! Not a chance for cheap, apparently. When I looked a few hours back it had 1 bidder. Then a few minutes ago it was suddenly at 70-something with 2 bidders. Then I immediately clicked on the link to view the bids and it in that moment had surged to 122.50, with just the same 2 bidders. I haven't bid yet. Remember, starting price was $28.

Reviewing the time stamps and including automatic bids, I see that the first bidder's (c***o) original max bid entered 2 days ago was 120. Of course there was no way to see what the original bidder's max was until the second bidder (c***1) entered a bid.

Here is the relevant activity:

Bidders: 2 Bids: 42 Time left: 4 hours 50 mins 26 secs Duration: 3 days

Bidder Bid Amount Bid Time
c***1 ( 227) US $122.50 Jan-31-14 15:10:12 PST

c***o ( 357) US $120.00 Jan-29-14 04:11:49 PST

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Neofinetiafalcata Beautiful Tiger Stripe Japaneseorchid

eBay.com Item Bid History (including automatic bids)

The later bidder c***1 has interesting bidding patterns. Frequently they will enter multiple bids, escalating their max, even with no other bidders, within a period of a couple minutes. For instance c***1 is the sole bidder, with 5 bids, for the Tosa Midori in this Sunday's SE auction. On the other hand, they only entered 1 bid for last nite's Hime-Kaioumaru, which I snatched away in final 10 seconds. I believe this was also the bidder who retracted their big bid on a NWO offering recently (and has 5 retractions in past 6 months).

UPDATE: c***o has jumped back in the lead at 125. Only time will tell what their new max bid is.

I also know that c***o will go well over 200 for a desirable plant. On the December 28 Fuji-nishiki, c***o went to 225, before we both lost it to a third bidder at 255.

[trdyl]

Originally Posted by Jayfar

Whoa!!! Not a chance for cheap, apparently. When I looked a few hours back it had 1 bidder. Then a few minutes ago it was suddenly at 70-something with 2 bidders. Then I immediately clicked on the link to view the bids and it in that moment had surged to 122.50, with just the same 2 bidders. I haven't bid yet. Remeber, starting price was $28.

Reviewing the time stamps and including automatic bids, I see that the first bidder's (c***o) original max bid entered 2 days ago was 120. Of course there was no way to see what the original bidder's max was until the second bidder (c***1) entered a bid.

Here is the relevant activity:



Neofinetiafalcata Beautiful Tiger Stripe Japaneseorchid

I kind of thought this one would be well out of my current budget when I first saw it.

[Call_Me_Bob]

I'll let you guys fight over it, I know better than to try and win it from Jay! Hopefully you get it cheap!