I started correspondence with Chris January 3, 2011. By all accounts he seemed very good natured, in his first message wrote he would accept donations for things, but I wanted seeds for business trade so I took his price list and asked via email for 200 seeds to do germination test. Something I hesitate to ever ask anyone with whom I'm wanting business because it implies distrust, or can. His response was to mail me 2,000 seeds with no payment upfront; something that by all accounts was wonderful, or an implied way of him say that the seeds are good – nice. However, that made it even harder to tell him I was testing them for germination, because after all his extraordinary show of goodwill saying I was testing for germination made it sound even more like saying I don't trust him.
Today there's online information about growing T. iboga, but 4.5 years ago there was none, so I set about testing with only Chris's instructions, some of which I omitted from my protocol, such as adding manure to the seeds starting soil, I had no idea it would be 7 weeks before the first seeds germinated, Chris said nothing about it. He gave me his estimate of the germination rate, which by commercial United States seeds suppliers standards wasn't even close to being marketable merchandise, but I figured the seeds are so hard to find if they got that germination rate then that's better than anywhere else I could get them, which was nowhere. The first seeds I tested had about half the germination rate Chris said, so I set about a second test, that again would require 7 weeks before any seeds popped. About that time Chris was bugging me for payment for the 2,000 seeds. Which was a situation I wasn't skillful dealing with, because my saying I needed a second test was also implying distrust. So I resent him the email where I had only asked for 200 seeds for testing, not 2,000. He seemed a good sport once he reread the mail. So to be legitimate with him I mailed 1,800 seeds back and explained I was ethically obligated to have positive germination results. My heart sank 100 miles when I did that because by all accounts I wanted to know the seeds were good and understood that Chris feels I distrust him, something I wanted to avoid ever happening.
So I did a second and third germination test and both were the exact same results as the first, but I bought his seeds anyway.
I continued buying them until May 22, 2012 when I sent him Payment for 2,000 seeds and what he sent were bleached seeds with black spots on them. As soon as they arrived I told him they didn't look right or nice, and felt resale customers will complain, he wrote in email they were good but if people complain to let him know and he'd make good. It took over 7 weeks to test for germination, none germinatinated. I wrote him 2 or 3 times about it. Then about 2.5 months after the last time I wrote him he replied cordially saying he'd send more when available, we exchanged 3 or 4 nice email messages, and I mailed him a free thing shortly after Christmas that was returned marked REFUSED, and all additional inquiries from that time were rebuffed until 3 years later when I took a brave shot and wrote him that my home, pets, and everything was lost in a house fire and could he send seeds
See also http://www.taosnews.com/news/article_183ba148-8647-11e4-8bb7-7be3c548e1b4.html
Chris writes back that he wanted to help but first would I send him $100.00 for some matter, that, at the time I only offered to show goodwill, not because it was owed in any agreement, and in the intern he had sent me bleached seeds with black spots that wouldn't germinate, and the ones I bought before then had such low germination, and for years rebuffs me.
So after all's said and done since the beginning, when I ask him a last time for the deal, and the first thing he want's is $100.00 that was never due him by any transaction we did, I had merely once offered it to show goodwill, he's not creditable by business standards.
For all I know he's a very hard life in Cameroon, I'm very sad to know if that's true for anyone, this is only about creditability, not his personal life.
Tasi Christopher Awa Reviews
Tasi Christopher Awa
Cameroon iboga scam
I started correspondence with Chris January 3, 2011. By all accounts he seemed very good natured, in his first message wrote he would accept donations for things, but I wanted seeds for business trade so I took his price list and asked via email for 200 seeds to do germination test. Something I hesitate to ever ask anyone with whom I'm wanting business because it implies distrust, or can. His response was to mail me 2,000 seeds with no payment upfront; something that by all accounts was wonderful, or an implied way of him say that the seeds are good – nice. However, that made it even harder to tell him I was testing them for germination, because after all his extraordinary show of goodwill saying I was testing for germination made it sound even more like saying I don't trust him.
Today there's online information about growing T. iboga, but 4.5 years ago there was none, so I set about testing with only Chris's instructions, some of which I omitted from my protocol, such as adding manure to the seeds starting soil, I had no idea it would be 7 weeks before the first seeds germinated, Chris said nothing about it. He gave me his estimate of the germination rate, which by commercial United States seeds suppliers standards wasn't even close to being marketable merchandise, but I figured the seeds are so hard to find if they got that germination rate then that's better than anywhere else I could get them, which was nowhere. The first seeds I tested had about half the germination rate Chris said, so I set about a second test, that again would require 7 weeks before any seeds popped. About that time Chris was bugging me for payment for the 2,000 seeds. Which was a situation I wasn't skillful dealing with, because my saying I needed a second test was also implying distrust. So I resent him the email where I had only asked for 200 seeds for testing, not 2,000. He seemed a good sport once he reread the mail. So to be legitimate with him I mailed 1,800 seeds back and explained I was ethically obligated to have positive germination results. My heart sank 100 miles when I did that because by all accounts I wanted to know the seeds were good and understood that Chris feels I distrust him, something I wanted to avoid ever happening.
So I did a second and third germination test and both were the exact same results as the first, but I bought his seeds anyway.
I continued buying them until May 22, 2012 when I sent him Payment for 2,000 seeds and what he sent were bleached seeds with black spots on them. As soon as they arrived I told him they didn't look right or nice, and felt resale customers will complain, he wrote in email they were good but if people complain to let him know and he'd make good. It took over 7 weeks to test for germination, none germinatinated. I wrote him 2 or 3 times about it. Then about 2.5 months after the last time I wrote him he replied cordially saying he'd send more when available, we exchanged 3 or 4 nice email messages, and I mailed him a free thing shortly after Christmas that was returned marked REFUSED, and all additional inquiries from that time were rebuffed until 3 years later when I took a brave shot and wrote him that my home, pets, and everything was lost in a house fire and could he send seeds
See also http://www.taosnews.com/news/article_183ba148-8647-11e4-8bb7-7be3c548e1b4.html
Chris writes back that he wanted to help but first would I send him $100.00 for some matter, that, at the time I only offered to show goodwill, not because it was owed in any agreement, and in the intern he had sent me bleached seeds with black spots that wouldn't germinate, and the ones I bought before then had such low germination, and for years rebuffs me.
So after all's said and done since the beginning, when I ask him a last time for the deal, and the first thing he want's is $100.00 that was never due him by any transaction we did, I had merely once offered it to show goodwill, he's not creditable by business standards.
For all I know he's a very hard life in Cameroon, I'm very sad to know if that's true for anyone, this is only about creditability, not his personal life.