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Epithelantha Micromeris is not active. My friendhas eaten 30 pieces and nothing happened. He also brewed another 20 of them and nothing happened. Despite what is said in Michael's book, the plant is not active. Also a note: the book mentioned here is a shortened version of the information contained in the book SACRED CACTI. Having bought Michael's book and having read the SACRED CACTI, I was quite disappointed to see there was no new information. Perhaps the plant is active at 20 years old, but plants at a younger age don't do anything. You are all welcome to try

I don't consider it useless to defend one's honour...I think it's a valiant deed. Especially when this forum has apparently gone to so much trouble to ruin a person's life. But anyway, you are right in some respects...people should decide with their wallets and their love of plants! For the record, I started this thread to sell plants and was bombarded with abuse. Apparently I got in the middle of something and became a target for nasty comments without having done anything to anyone. To this point, I STILL have not heard anyone apologising for the manner in which they treated me (not that I expect anything like that...but it would have shown some character). Regardless, some people have been nice and I can't take that away from them. If you want the thread closed, you can do it. But if you do that, then it would only be fair to close all the other threads where arguments of this sort have taken place. That would be a valiant deed. and show strength of character.

So you still think I'm someone else! Otherwise you wouldn't offer to eat my peach! That's your problem. And so far as cunnilingus with emoticons goes, I prefer the way my boyfriend and girlfriends do it. Your VERY small tongue in the emoticon is not enough to even please a mosquito.

Nice post! I hear you DuG...I find it appaling that you feel you have to apologise to the people in this forum for saying a nice thing about Mex. It's rather fascist to ask everyone in this community to stay away from a seller. Whatever happened to our free will and to acting as one pleases!!! Personal opinions are just that: personal. And others shouldn't be made to feel guilty for doing what they want to do, just because it goes against a few people's opinions. I'm glad to see there ARE some reasonable people here who do not judge a person they don't know. But there are also some people here who pretend to be all loving and peaceful but act in such malicious ways against Mex. LOVE AND UNITY CAN ONLY COME THROUGH FORGIVENESS. Noone is forcing you to forgive, but you can't call yourselves peaceful OR loving when some of you behave in such malicious ways. adn as for people's comments that Mex burnt many people here and has stolen from them, that is soooooo untrue! I communicated with MOSES and he's getting his plant plus free 3cm lophophora. Another person, a Jono, ALSO got his plant and a small lophophora (free). How can any of you say that he has not honoured his sales and that he is a thief? I cannot ask you NOT to speak before you get your facts right, but when you make false accusations, it is unbecoming of you. And to all the people who STILL think I'm him: 'elate na glipsete to mouni mou, einai poly nostimo!!!

Very funny Hey I saw your signature and I have a comment: nothing lasts...but nothing is lost!

You wrote Kosta or whoever you are...I am THAT WHOEVER, NOT Kosta So far as other forums go, there is gardenweb. But I can't give you my handle there, because I don't want to be followed by anyone outside this forum. If we meet in the other forum and we click, then we can chat more And finally, about my suburb: What's the point? I mispelt it cos I typed fast. many people mispel suburbs (I like smelbourne which is another person's location). If you want to persecute me for typing fast and making a mistake, please do. I didn't think it important to correct my mistake, because I didn't think it was an important issue. but if it IS an issue to you and it is STILL causing you (or anyone else) a problem, then I will correct my spelling

Ok, I understand now. Forgiven and forgotten, but I don't smoke or do drugs, so I'll just meditate on Peace, Love and Happiness

If you bothered to have read my post and then responded, then you would have shown me the respect you request for yourself, but NOT reading the post and writing all the abuse you did and THEN calling me Kosta (again), shows me that you were trying to vend off your PC Rage before I responded to it with emotion. And I DO get emotional when people call me a liar, because when you say that you are not convinced about my identity you are actually calling me a liar. Ending your post with PEACE LOVE HAPPINES to everyone after what you just wrote is quite hypocritical in itself. I like your new term (PC RAGE) but I too would like this conversation with you to be over

Because I know the person that put it up!!!!! And so far as your saying that you wouldn't kill lophs but others would, what makes you say that? Are the rest of us beneath you and you are a collector? I am starting to take offense at your attitude and comments. If you read my previou posts you would have read that I satred writing it after I spoke with Kosta and read all the posts! THAT'S how I know. SO.....GET BACK YOU NASTY HOBBIT!!!!

what crap! Most of the collections in this forum are from overseas! And when I spoke about "how many decades" I was referring to the fact that he has all the different froms grown IN Australia, so you can see all the differences. Read THAT post! People were thrilled that someone could show Australians whether or not growing seed from different locations in the same Australian conditions would give you diffrernt looking plants. THAT'S what I was refering to.

I think you are silly and have missed the whole point of my email. Nevermind who you think I am, I know who I am ANYONE can have more than one ebay account, you just can't bid on your own accounts. When you start a new account, Ebay asks you if you want to create another! (at least that's what they have done for all my friends who are on Ebay). I don't know about him willing to sell you any plants in WA, but if you knew it was illegal, why did you ask him to do it? Sounds like you were trying to entrap him! I doubt he would have sent it to you, as it is against the law. Saying something in passing and committing to it are two different things. So far as not honouring his trades, I think you missed the point again (of course you did, because you said you didn't bother to read the post I put up). He called you what he called you and wrote you off after everything you said and wrote about him. Don't get me wrong, but if you had said about me the things you said about him in the earlier posts, I too would have told you where to go! In fact, from the moment I posted on this forum and all the buse I have copped from you, I had a good mind to tell you where to go too! Get it through your thick head: I AM A GIRL! And as for your comment about people collecting Lophs for their mescaline, are you serious????? WHO IN THEIR RIGHT MIND would kill an expensive loph for mesc when you can get the same amount from $20 of Bridgesii????? Get a clue buddy, because MANY of us grow and collect these plants because THEY ARE BEAUTIFULL!!!! When you see old hairy lophs, you can do no more than admire them and if you decide to kill it and eat it then you deserve EXACTLY THAT SAME FATE.

Now that I have read all related threads and comments (and also spoken with "mex"), I think you are overreacting. Why? Because: He sent a very reasonable email to the person in WA, informing them of the lega; staus of what they were doing (which they obviously were unaware of). He didn't mention anything about reporting the perth-person until he received two nasty emails from her. Kosta goes by the Law (that's who he is). And that doesn't mean he is out to harm people. He is aware of the legal staus of all his dealings. In order for him to get "there", he had to spend a lot of time and money on lawyers. You see, he has such a big collection, that he had to make sure he was "legal" in what he was getting into. Customs and police have checked his house and couldn't fault him (because he is so careful). Wht I believe happened is he informed the perth-person about the legal staus, initially they responded naively and then they responded offensively, so he did the same (after two emails from perth). Mind you he never actually called any authorities! He is not vindictive and just because people have done that to him, it doesn't mean he would do it back. So far as monopolizing the market (if that's what you would call selling plants on ebay), it's not his fault he had the plants to do it with! As far as I can recall, many other people sold lophies on ebay at the same time as him. And MANY times he was suspended from Ebay because "other people" would be reporting him to Ebay for selling drug paraphernalia (!) So before you go on blaming Kosta for everything, take a step back and see that there are many people who were out to stop him from selling while they were selling themselves. Kosta contacted his lawyers, they formulated a response to Ebay's claim that he was selling drug-paraphernalia and they sent the letter to Ebay. He received a response from Ebay, telling him exactly what their problem was (and it all had to do with the naming of the plant). So they sent another letter asking ebay if certain "names" of lophophora were allowed. They responded with a list that he started using and kept using for a long time. Other people "caught on" to what he had found and started doing the same thing as him (calling the plants particular names). Kosta didn't feel they were "taking his business", he just wanted to make sure that they had followed the right channels (the channels HE had paid for and followed in order to sell his plants). But as he put it to me: how would any of "them" (meaning YOU guys) would be happy if others started getting for free what they (meaning you guys) had paid dearly for? I'd hate to say it, but he had a point...and despite how nice I would like to make myself out to be, I probably would be a little upset about it. I've been reading that he is a narc and appeared sus from the beginning and all that. That made me laugh because I know how untrue it was. I can understand that many of you were a little 'curious' about him...he came out of nowhere and showed people so many (of his) plants, giving info on how to grow them, how to treat them, and alot of other important information (especialy his post on the different seeds and what plants they end up looking like! That was GOLD! How many decades do you think it would take for ANY OF US in Australia to be able to write something like that and have the proof to show??? Before he came, in Australia we had 'williamsii'. Afterwards, he had all the different forms WITH proof of what the plants will look like. Calling him an impostor is trulyunfair because he was as genuine about his hobby (lophs and arios) as they come. He offerred all his advice at no cost and constant support to all his customers andd others who sent him emails. I don't think he EVER exploited the market! He was selling at AUCTIONS! He never forced anybody to pay more than what they wanted to pay! That's why he was SELLING at auctions! I met Kosta at the Cactus society meetings. And people ask him "how much" all the time. And you should see this...he gets all shy and cowers back because he doesn't want to ask them for money! Most of the time, he GIVES his plants to society members and asks them to bring him something back (another plant) or pay whatever they want to pay him! Why am I saying allt this? Why am I 'defending him'? I am not the only one who has defended him A number of people have been appalled at the defamation of character that has taken place in this forum. I was never interested in talking about mex. I came here to tell people about some plants I had available and was bombarded with emails and comments about him, so in defending myself, I ended up also defending him. He has acted as a friend to me at times when others had given up on me. So to see the comments I have seen about him is something I will defend with the truth. Nothing of what I have written here is an exaggeration or a lie. I can only defend someone with the truth (I am religious and am obliged to do so). Yesterday MOSES wrote that he hadn't received his plant. I asked MOSES to tell me what that was about and that I would try and fix it or him. MOSES told me what plant it was and the ebay username he had bought it under. I called Kosta and asked what was going on, because HE had told me he had taken care of everyone's outstanding accounts. When I said MOSES' ebay name, he started cursing (in greek ). He said he'd told MOSES that he'd send it but couldn't remember sending it. You see, he had deleted ALL correspondance to do with Ebay (and this forum). He did that after he (thought) he had sent everyone's items. If that's not true, how can you explain post from other members in this forum saying how diligent he was in getting their items to them AFTER he got suspended? He also told me about a guy called JONO whose plant he had delayed as well (for the same reasons). I believe he sent JONO his plant (a trichocereus crest) WITH a FREE LOPHIE as an apology! If he is as nasty, pretentious and selfish as you make him out to be, how does that make any sense? Anyway, he asked me to get MOSES' details and he would sent HIM his plant (with an apology as well). MOSES involved his lawyers. As far as I know how these things work, the most that can happen is they sent Kosta a letter of demand about the item before pressing charges. The letter of demand would ask for MOSES' plant and Kosta is prepared to send him so much more. So if MOSES wants to pay for his lawyers to write him a letter that will get him his plant, he is welcome to do so. But I don't think he would benefit as much out of it as he would if he just send him his postal address again I look back at this email now and I see that I have been writing for half an hour (and you have been reading for about 3 minutes). I think I have said what I wanted to say about him. You guys judge him as you will. I know what he is and I'm telling you you got him wrong. Yes, maybe it was wrong to say that he would call WAQIS. But he only responded so after he received nasty emails. Many of us could react in similar ways. I mean look at what YOU people have written in these threads! You were talking about reporting him to so many authorities!!! Apparently MANY of us would react in similar ways to him if we were pised off! I hope you give what I said some serious consideration (otherwise we have all wasted our time writing and reading this post). ON ANOTHER NOTE, thanks to the people for putting up the details for the Melbourne show! I'll be going for a little bit too. I think Kosta might be there too. I hope if any of you come down and he is there (if you can't treat him with respect), just don't cause a scene. Have a lovely day

Moses, he agrees with you! He has deleted all emails to do with Ebay, thinking that he had already sent all outstanding items - apparently that's not the case. If you send him a postal address, he will get it to you plus extras. See? I knew he's not a bad person

It is easy to make accusations about someone who can't respond in this forum. I'll speak with him and find out exactly what's going on. I know Kosta and he would NOT steal from anyone. Have you tried to contact him and sort things out? Tell me who you are and I'll find out for you when I see him. Calling people bastards, crooks, assholes is different to accusing them of being thieves. It's hard for me to believe that a person who gave me 5 free lophophoras would need to steal from anyone. In any case, the plants are no longer available. Too much of a hassle in this forum and too many angry people. I don't know what he did to you, but to be talking about reporting to whoever or doing other types of similar acts doesn't seem very friendly to me. Or is this how your community is? Friendly to each other and hateful to others? Whatever happened to loving one's enemy as Christ asked us to do? It's easy to love the the people who are nice to you, everybody can do that. But it seems that none of you here actually believe what you preach about love and unity. I am very disappointed with this community, crucifying people based on what others say about them. And not only Kosta, you have crucified ME for trying to sell some plants. Nevermind...you are forgiven because you don't know what you are doing. PS: Yes, my name is Karen and I AM Greek. Have ANY of you been to Greece in the past 10 years? There are AFRICAN and ASIAN people who have become Greek! You'll see that there are MANY of us x-patriots, born to one Greek and one Aussie parent. So to the ignoramus who suggested that my name is not Greek, have a think about what I wrote.

Because when you fork out so much money, you want to make some of it back as well as keep as many plants as you can. And no-one is desperate to sell. As I have said MANY times before, NOONE is PRESSURED: THERE IS A CACTUS SHOW IN MMELBOURNE wher I can go and sell them! if you don't want them, no-one is forcing them on you. And for the last time: I AM NOT HIM