Hi guys,
i am writing here instead of private messaging you all individually,: abemael777, hammer524, Cerkat, BluMalibu, K-Rimes, Polypterus , all who joined in to make this sub-group with me to help with the order. I learnt from Ryan (jaboticaba45) late last night that i was not included in the order. Some of you were wondering why so i want to make it all clear here. Together we had over 30 species and i was one of the early ones who had contacted him with the order, plus i had sent our final order in a timely manner and did not make any late changes so i was not eliminated on those grounds. I was eliminated because my order(combined with you all) was too large and Ryan has exams coming up and it will be hard on him. I had organized all of you 6 in a nice excel sheet and made sure that Ryan gets a single order from me so he would have to deal with one person and not 7. Also if he had asked, i could have taken responsibility for the whole 15 people because organizing is not a big deal for me but it was not communicated to me from the very beginning. Plus i diid not know the inside arrangements with the seller and the permit provider.
I am disheartened like all of you are, and apologize to all of you for this. I have no experience with buying from this seller and Brazil and with the permit so if any of you have a seed import permit and want to help me out with that, will be much appreciated. This has been a good learning experience for me. The initial idea was to get more plants for my food forest but the feeling of helping this community of forum friends seeped in me. If any forum friend has permit and want to help us and be added in the group please step forward and let me know. If you have communicated with the seller before: K-Rimes you speak Portuguese so would you be able to ask seller if we can send the order today? we have our individual orders in our group of 7 all organized so this will be fast. I am also ready to embrace friends who have been left out from the original Ryan's order.
I will start a new topic with for this order if a permit comes through. Forum member Daintree had mentioned having a permit so i will contact her but someone local here in South FL will help cut the shipping prices if i find one. Let's all cross our fingers and make this happen!!!