I have long been a user of various ethnobotanical plants. Over many years I have come to appreciate the intrinsic qualities these scared plants have. I sometimes order certain ones online, most notable Kratom, which is what led me to gaianbotanicals.com.
Online vendors of ethnobotanicals are notoriously shady, something I think is shameful considering the healing nature of the substances they claim to sell, so I always do my research on websites before I make my purchase.
Now I hate to come on this website and possible tarnish the reputation of a man who I know was once a very reliable seller, but it appears he has gone down the road of many other vendors I once knew who diminished from being honest and reliable into men that took your money and never delivered.
Erocx1, the online pseudonym of the man that runs Gaian Botanicals, had nothing but glowing reviews from dozens of people when I did my research a few months ago.
Now I am not the kind of person that can easily throw $100 into anything, but I did because I trusted EROCx1 based on the reviews.
I payed through paypal, and my connecting debit card was charged. It has been almost a month now, and I have not received my order from Gaian Botanicals, which is located in the same state that I live. EROCx1 has not responded to any of my e-mails despite the fact that he has updated his blog/twitter account various times since my order was charged.
I am not writing this report with any bad intentions, as I am a person that always believes in peace and reconciliation. I am also not hear to promote any other website. But people need to protect their hard earned money, as do I, because we can't all afford to have large sums of money taken from us. There are plenty of legit online vendors, do your research, and avoid Gaian Botanicals.
I find it sad when people, for whatever reason, begin to take advantage of the customers that once so adamantly supported them.
1 Updates & Rebuttals
JustJon
United States of AmericaA ripoff report for just one messed up order? Really?
#2Consumer Comment
Mon, May 17, 2010
He's been extremely sick. http://erocx1.blogspot.com/2010/05/erocx1-is-very-ill.html He just recently hired someone to take care of all of the backlog. (He runs his business on his own.) I've had many successes ordering from him, and I also have an order "in the wind" right now, (so I had a feeling that something was seriously wrong, and I was right.) Maybe show some slack when you don't have all of the information next time, k?