I really feel like a professional victim of fraud. Before, when I bought succulents, I got scammed by buying chemically treated ones. I accepted that.
Later, in December last year, I saw that dried - branch flower arrangements were quite popular online. I also wanted to buy a bunch of dried branches. I thought that if I put them in water for a couple of months, they would be in full bloom by the Spring Festival. I thought that would be really beautiful.
I carefully selected a kind of pink flower called "Pearl Plum". Its flowers were completely different from peach blossoms. Judging from the seller's renderings, the flowers were in clusters, densely packed from top to bottom, and very attractive.
However, after I bought them in December and placed them for three months, I even thought I had bought dry wooden sticks and that they would never bloom.
But on Valentine's Day, suddenly three or four flower buds appeared, and one flower even bloomed directly. This made me a little delighted.
But when I looked closely at the blooming flowers, I felt they looked so familiar. Weren't they exactly the same as the peach blossoms downstairs in our community? But I clearly bought the plant called "Pearl Plum".
I compared the blooming flowers with the seller's pictures in the product link and found they were indeed different. I felt I had been scammed again.
So I confronted the seller, took pictures and questioned him, "Boss, what's going on with this wrong - product? It's false advertising!"
The boss didn't say much and directly refunded me. He probably knew he was in the wrong and that he was selling fake products, so he refunded me without any nonsense.
Alas, for an outsider like me who doesn't know much about plants, I'm likely to be scammed about five times out of ten purchases. But at least it bloomed. Even if they are peach blossoms, it's okay. Spring has come to Wuhan. Let's see how many peach blossoms will bloom on these dozen or so dried branches in the next half - month to a month.
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我真觉得自己就是个上当受骗专业户。之前买多肉，买到药锦受骗了，这我认了。
后来在去年12月的时候，我看到网上干枝插花挺火的，我也想买一束干枝条，想着插个一两个月，到春节的时候就能开满花，我觉得那肯定特别美。
我精挑细选，选了一种叫“珍珠李”的粉色花。它的花和桃花完全不一样，从卖家的效果图看，花朵一团团的，从上到下密密麻麻，特别吸引人。
然而，我12月买回来插了三个月，我都以为自己买的就是干木棍，根本不会开花了。
但情人节那天，突然冒出三四个花骨朵，有一朵甚至直接开了。这让我有点开心。
但我仔细看开的花，怎么感觉这么眼熟。这不就是我们小区楼下桃花的样子吗？可我买的明明是叫“珍珠李”的植物啊。
我把开的花和商品链接里卖家的图片对比，发现确实不一样。我感觉自己又被骗了。
于是我找卖家理论，拍了照片质问他：“老板，这货不对版怎么回事？这是虚假宣传啊！”
老板没多说，直接给我退款了。他大概心里也知道自己理亏，卖的是假货，所以二话没说就给我退款了。
唉，像我这种对植物不太了解的外行，买十次可能起码得被骗五次。但至少它开花了，就算是桃花也没关系。武汉的春天来了，看看接下来半个月到一个月，我买的这十几二十根干枝上能开多少桃花。
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