2024 Orders and Openings Chat

Juliarugula · 2023-08-01T22:12:46+00:00

I thought today might be a good day to start the 2024 thread, since I was browsing through the newly rolled over DahliaAddict site. Has anybody heard if Cle...

Krista

blown_dry Pretty, ML is so much pink and fluff, I love it!

KitCMC

blown_dry same. The shipping charges get me worked up, particularly when they won’t combine shipping charges on multiple orders, but may choose to combine the orders into one shipment 😐
It’s definitely irrational, but the feeling is very real.

Mingus L is dreamy!

Krista

KitCMC +1 to this for me too — like it’s better to waste the packaging too? Emotionally for me, the answer is “yes” unfortunately. Even though from other suppliers, I’ll happily pay the extra shipping and receive multiple boxes. Ugh, I have no excuse for being entirely irrational.

NCDahlia

janell Yes that's what i figured! Thanks for your answer! 🙂

I had several of the 2022 ones including KA Bo Peep and had to throw them all out because virus but they were kind and refunded. I will try to get some of the KA's in the future sales in March / April.

AndreaB

blown_dry Be sure to post pics! Mingus Leroy is a personal fave.
Marcia Dawn was the only one that tempted me, so I passed. Last year I added a lot of travel companions (like you, Julia!) to justify the shipping, but my collection grew exponentially.
Working on paring it down this year.

Krista

AndreaB travel companions

😄 I love this term!

KitCMC

AndreaB

Krista

just a little company for the trip 😆

Juliarugula

I had already ordered 2 tubers of Mingus Leroy from another seller, but I had to talk myself down from ordering another from GoE just because of their picture. 😜

I’ve kind of succeeded at making my brain just shut down its commentary about shipping charges. I keep repeating to myself that it’s just part of the cost of gardening…

I’m also getting better about talking myself down from “travel companions”. But that’s not 100% yet…. 😬

blown_dry

Juliarugula I’m also getting better about talking myself down from “travel companions”.

I am getting better at this too. It doesn't actually make the shipping any less it just feels a little better and it adds up.

AndreaB

Krista I loved it, too! I borrowed it from Julia 😉

Krista

AndreaB Ah, thank you! All kudos go to @Juliarugula! “Travel companions” are officially in rotation when using vocabulary specific to springtime tuber shopping!

blown_dry

Weirdly, I think small suppliers should not combine shipping. If it takes them an extra 10 minutes per order to collate the mulitple orders and calculate and process the refunds, then it costs them about 10 dollars in time/and fees if they are making a living wage, and for what? Paypal does not refund to the supplier the fees they charge for them to receive the funds when the money is refunded to customers. I'm more bothered about suppliers getting burnt out, missing time with their loved ones and working for pennies on the hour than I am about paying shipping on each order I make from my comfy chair. 😂

Krista

blown_dry I think for me, it’s not about needing them to combine. I’ll happily pay for multiple shipments when it’s advertised as such. It’s the “we don’t combine” but then they do combine, but there’s no refund. It’s totally irrational of me but I think it’s about the expectation, either you do or you don’t. 😬 I totally accept full responsibility for those feelings of frustration, I know nobody’s getting rich off shipping charges!

Teddahlia

I talked with Eric Anderson and he will be selling tubers this year. I got good stock of HH Cotton Candy from him back when. He uses the moniker "Sungates" for his new ones and he likes his white orchette new one. He sells pepper plants in the spring too. He is a real gardener and I sent him some geranium cuttings back when and he was able to root them.

Juliarugula

Krista Ah, thank you! All kudos go to @Juliarugula! “Travel companions” are officially in rotation when using vocabulary specific to springtime tuber shopping!

😁But I’m pretty sure I stole it from somebody else here! Calico20hill maybe? I’m not sure who! I think kudos should just go to the “Growing Dahlias” forum for that one!

blown_dry

Krista I totally get it. My peeves are irrational as well. 😂

Juliarugula

Krista It’s totally irrational of me but I think it’s about the expectation, either you do or you don’t

🤣🤣. If anything, I get annoyed at the opposite - when I pay for shipping three packages, so the seller ships them all separately. I feel like, geez, that’s just wasted packaging and also wasted money. At least the seller could get compensation for my ridiculous tuber purchasing! I’d rather my extra $15 line their pockets than the post office’s… 🤷‍♀️

Poor tuber sellers. They can’t win…

Krista

Juliarugula We could just popcorn accolades down to each member here so everyone gets individual kudos from the group! 🤣

Krista

Juliarugula Poor tuber sellers. They can’t win…

Truer words have never been spoken!

Honnat

I have a coupon code on my site to allows free shipping on subsequent orders. I still combine shipping on those that don't use the coupon and I don't refund those. It's part of how I've been able to charge a flat $9 for shipping any sized order and still break even. This year I believe USPS raised their Priority rates so I'm going to $10 flat charge for any sized order. As long as some people don't use the coupon code and I get some small local orders I sneak out with First Class - I'll hopefully still break even.

JessieC

Honnat That’s clever! I wondered last year (or was it the year before 🤔) about the USPS price hike, which seemed to come at a bad time. I got the feeling that a lot of sellers charged a shipping fee based on the previous rates, and that the higher shipping costs probably caught them by surprise. I believe packing materials shot up in price as well.
Every time I feel badly for spending money on some weird tuber that I really want, I think about all the kind and creative energy that the individual sellers have poured into these things. It’s hard work, and I’m happy to pay for it! (But I’ll admit the shipping fees can seem annoying.)

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