Tree Nursery Return Policy

[shamanka]

North Carolina

I purchased a number of trees online from a plant nursery in GA.

During the entire process of selection, checkout and in subsequent paid receipts and packing list there was no return policy.

The usual policy is 1 year for a return because many times bareroot trees (or even balled ones) take a while to get over the shock of being dug up and shipped.

This nursery has a Spring order deadline of March 31st so that the trees will still be semi-dormant when shipped.

Of the trees I ordered, a number of them lived, but quite a few did not.

Assuming the common policy I wrote them and asked what they needed for a replacement tree to be sent (some require the dead tree)

They wrote back that their return policy was that refund requests must be made by July 1st of the same year.

If I had been given any indication of this "non-standard policy" I would have complied with their request.

Does GA have any type of consumer protection in an instance such as this?

Thank you.

 

[seniorjudge]

Where did you get the idea that there was a "standard" return policy?

 

[shamanka]

From living

You may be speaking "legal-ese" when you question the word standard, but I'm using it the common sense of praxis.

Every tree or plant I've ever bought generally has a 1 year replacement policy.

 

[shamanka]

Btw

Where did you get the idea that there was a "standard" return policy?

Where's the Free Advice?

 

[seniorjudge]

You may be speaking "legal-ese" when you question the word standard, but I'm using it the common sense of praxis.

Every tree or plant I've ever bought generally has a 1 year replacement policy.

Are you talking about the Klingon moon or the Nicaraguan group of artists?


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[seniorjudge]

Where's the Free Advice?

Here it is: Ain't no such critter as a standard return policy.

 

[shamanka]

Just as reading and comprehension are two different things:

Are you talking about the Klingon moon or the Nicaraguan group of artists?

Knowledge and praxis (i.e. practice: translating an idea into action - or practical application) are also two different things.



Statements of "fact" are not advice. There was no statement of their guarantee available to me, so how can I be held to a contract I knew nothing of?