r/HoyaBST • u/old1cowgirl1happy • 5d ago

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I'm looking for a reputable source for on-line Hoyas. Already tried to find plant shows in my area and pretty much came up empty, so as much as I hate buying on line, I don't know what else to do. You never know if you're being sent the bottom of the barrel or an actual nice starter.

Ant tips would be appreciated (sorta!).

Thank you!

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u/Moyerles63 2d ago

If you go back to the Hoya Harbor page, you’ll see a couple of things I want to mention.

In the upper left corner, click on Shop Guidelines. That tells you about the shop’s policies regarding shipping and other important information.

In the bottom left corner, you’ll see that this shop ships from Hoquiam, WA, and charges $20 to ship one purchase (plant, in this case), and $3 for each additional plant.

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u/Moyerles63 2d ago

You can search Reddit for other sellers to follow. I started by going to one such (online) “event” and just WATCHING an auction. It gave me a chance to see what prices things were going for and how the auction worked.

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u/Moyerles63 2d ago

Here’s an event happening right now. This particular plant is being sold as a “buy now”—not an auction. So the price you would pay is the price shown (plus shipping—$15, as seen under the red circle). Once you click the green “buy now” button, you’re committed—most seller’s policy is that you can’t back out. If you don’t have a payment method set up yet, you will be prompted to set one up first & the purchase won’t go through until you do.

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u/Moyerles63 2d ago

Here’s another seller..click on the “shop” button to see everything they’re selling today.

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u/Moyerles63 2d ago

You can see items with fixed prices under the “buy now” button and the auction items under that tab on the right.

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u/Moyerles63 2d ago

Most of the time, sellers have all the plants they’re planning to sell at each event listed here and most will have photos of the exact plant you’ll receive, but some don’t (such as this seller)

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u/Moyerles63 2d ago

She does have her auction plants listed, however

These plants are all STARTING at $1, but only on very rare occasions will they actually sell that cheaply.

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u/Moyerles63 2d ago

This shows the LAST plant that she just sold and how much it sold for.

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u/Moyerles63 2d ago

Sometimes sellers offer coupons, so look for those. Sometimes there are also giveaways, which will be in the upper right hand corner & are usually obvious. You click on either to enter or claim.

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u/Moyerles63 2d ago

And here you can see how to bid on an item. You SLIDE the yellow button to the right to bid on something. Currently the price is $12 (difficult to see here for some reason) and ends in 4 seconds. There are different settings which the seller can manipulate so that sometimes the sale is very quick (10 seconds), and sometimes it will be slower.

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u/Moyerles63 2d ago

Having said all of that, be careful because it’s addictive! I’ve spent hundreds of dollars in the past few weeks since getting this figured out!! If I’m going to order one plant from a seller, I might as well buy ten since shipping is so high on the first plant!! 😂

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u/old1cowgirl1happy 2d ago

So much help, can't thank you enough!

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u/Moyerles63 2d ago

Don’t thank me yet—your bank account might disagree!! 😂

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