Special Instructions for Exchanges:
* This area is for the purpose of exchanging seeds or plants of the type covered by this forum.

* The exchanges were created to facilitate the arranging of trades of plants and seeds between members. Please do not use them to solicit donations, ask for free plants or seeds, or ask for items in exchange for postage. All requests must be in the context of arranging a trade. If you have nothing to offer at this time, please wait until you do.
If you do not have anything to trade at this time, you are however welcome to respond to the many generous 'offers' of seeds for postage. These can be found by looking for posts that say seeds are available for sase, sasbe, beap, free, newbies, etc. Some posts will state that they are looking for trades, but will also consider sending seeds for postage.

* All exchanges are restricted to users from a particular country, region or state. If it isn't indicated otherwise, the exchange is restricted to residents of the U.S. To find an exchange for your location, check the exchange index.

* Each post must have a type of trade, subject and a message.
Additionally, Seeds for postage offers are also permitted, ie BEAP, SASBE, SASE, free, etc.

* Trading is done at user's discretion. Garden Web has no control or responsibility over trades arranged here. Keep in mind some traders may let you down, so it might be wise to keep your initial trade with someone limited to smaller items.
Before arranging a trade, you may want to check for reviews on the member at The Rate and Review Forum. To search the forum for the member's review, use the Search box found just below the list of threads on the main forum page (page 1).

* Messages addressed to or meant for particular users should be sent via email and are not allowed in the exchanges.
If for some reason you are not able to reach a member, ie emails are bouncing, emails are not being responded to, or you have lost the member's email address and they have no email link, you can make a post looking for the member on the Conversation side of the forum. A link to (off topic) Conversations can be found at the top of the list of threads here on the main page (page 1) on the Discussion (Exchange) side. Often other members will be experiencing the same problems, or can share what information they have about the members whereabouts....ie sickness, family emergency, on vacation, computer problems, etc.

* If you have trouble with another person coming through with their end of a trade, you must deal with it privately. It is the consensus of the forum users that this type of thing be kept out of our forums. Any public accusation in this forum, or elsewhere at GardenWeb, will result in the accuser being banned.
Please use the Rate & Review Forum to post the details of the transaction.

* To avoid problems when shipping across borders and some state lines, it is best to ship plants bare-rooted and to label the container as such. It is up to the users involved to determine what is legal and what is not.

* This forum is for the purpose of exchanging material, there should be no need to mention money in any postings. If money is mentioned, the posting will be considered an advertisement and the poster will be banned.

* Trading of patented material is unlawful and is strictly forbidden.

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Newbies,

Do you have a Member Page email link so that you can easily be reached?
Do you have your Member Trade List filled out, even if it only for seeds that you are looking for? Do you know why that is often important?
Do you know how to look for, how to respond to, and the customary requirements of Seeds for Postage Offers?
This thread, "Addressing newbie and newer member issues" covers those things as well as some other 'good to know' information.

Existing Mailing Costs for Bubble Envelopes (BE) Rates will probably go up in May 2010.

Please feel free to post any questions or concerns here if you like.

Once this thread slips down on the page, please feel free to assist in keeping it bumped up near the top of the page where it will best be noticed.

Happy trading, sharing and gardening!

Sue

Thanks to everybody for bumping this to the top. It is much appreciated.

Where th' heck are all the other bumpers?

Bumperoony!

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thank you
ellen

Welcome to The Seed Exchange. One thing that may help is to request/require that members be sure and post to your thread with what they are interested in from you.

Another thing that might help is to list your seeds on your Member Trade List as opposed to putting them in your post. You can list which ones are for postage and which ones are for trading only. You can then revise your list there when you see you might be running low on some things.

Last but not least, when you have gotten as many offers as you care to handle at any one time, without getting overwhelmed or confused, you can close your thread in big red bold...,,,something like...

This is now closed
Thank you to all who responded.

If you want/need any help with learning a tad of HTML to make a big red bold post, just holler here and I'll either post info or point you to a hopefully helpful thread.

Sue

Bump! :)

Bump, again!

- Cryptid

"Up, *UP*, **UP**!!

Cryptid

Goin' for another field goal!

Aaaaand,...he scores!

Way t'go! Keep this puppy on page one!

Hey, jdbheartease, kinda feels like we're playing a slow-mo game of Pong, here. :)

Let's...keep...this...UP!

Up, up and awayyyyy!!

I've been bumping at the Plant Exchange as well as at Rate and Review. Stop by sometime, if you have a spare moment and care to help at those places as well. Tia.

Geez, I don't bump for one measly day and this baby winds up on page #2?! LOL!

Hehehe,...yeah, I maxed-out the PE thread!

:)

Bump!

Rerun...!

Another day, another bump.

Aaannd, yet again! :)

Daily bump...!

...Yawn,... Evening BUMP!

BUMP!

Boot!

To paraphrase Harry Potter,..."Bumpos MAXIMA!"

Okay,...here's another one,...

BUMP!

Yeah,...what always-breeze said... :)

To create the best user experience, please keep all reviews for a particular member in one thread and before posting a new thread, use the forum's search feature to see if one has already been started.
When searching for an existing review thread it is easiest if you use the Search Box found just below the list of threads on page one. That will yield search results for just the Rate and Review Forum as opposed to all of Garden Web.

This has been a public service announcement brought to you be the rbb.

Evening bump. - Now returning you to this station's regular programming schedule...

Oh, waitaminnit,...this is the regular programming schedule. Dear me. - Ahem,...kindly disregard the above. Eh, well, except for the bump. :)

Boy has this ever been pushed down the page! Time to push this pup back up...!

Evening bump.

No-no-no,...not page #2!

Bump!

Aaaand Bump!

Less drop, more climb!

Evening, all! :)

Bump

It's been a looong, busy, tiring day.

Winter Sowed beans, peas, corn and flowers this morning. Here's hoping! :)

Sowed Delicata Squash this morning. - Bump!

Bump

Aaaand,...Bump again! :)

Bumpasaurus

Good afternoon, all! Sunny out, right now, here in Southern Oregon. Supposed to snow tomorrow, then after that, rain-rain-rain,...! :(

Clear sky, so far. Cold out, but no snow or anything yet. It's 10:19pm here right now.

No snow, yet, but earlier today we had freezing wind and frozen rain. Of course my wife and I had to go stack wood for my wife's folks. Back home, finally, and we're still thawing out.

Big ol' BUMP!

Bump

Evening bump.

Bump

Rainy day bump.

Bump

Movin' on up!

Bumpazoid...!

Newbies please read,

Fran

Back to the top!

Evening bump,...

...Ummm,...yeah. Bump!

Back up there!

Again!

Boot! :)

Back on up!

Topside bound!

Aaaaand, another BUMP!

Whoops,...back to page #1!

Holy katz! Nearly forgot about the evening BUMP!

Once again!

Slide back on up!

Reluctantly apolitical evening BUMP!

Upward bound!

Nearly too tired to bump this evening.

And up again!!

My favorite hobby, anymore,...bumping the Seed Exchange Special Instructions thread! LOL!

Buuuuuuummmmp!

Four score and seven years ago,...

Right-O,...back to the top!

Does anyone have any suggestions to include in the new one?
I won't be including the link to postage costs as they will probably go up next month as they have in past years.

I thought I'd include a link to the
Conversation side of the forum,
Rate and Review
Rate and Review expanded instructions since there are so many new threads started when there is an existing one,
Winter Sowing Forum,
Seed Saving, and
Growing from Seed, as well at the link to the
newbie thread covering how to set up email address link, member trade list and hot to look for and respond to seeds for postage offers.

Anything else?

Sue...rbb