reincarnated said:

thanks for the reply

yeah that's what I thought (but not that the seller did it, but someone at the postal system did it), but I told the guy about it and he said that this has happened to him when he bought prints (but I don't know if he was saying that to make me feel better), and he insisted on sending me out more prints to make up for them (which I declined, coz I don't want anymore prints in the postal system with my name on it), so I doubt he was trying to rip me off.

I'm gonna try and take a better pic in better lighting sometime. Also I want to try and scrape what I can off of each print and see if the pile matches up with the first pic.

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Trich said:

reincarnated said:

thanks for the reply

yeah that's what I thought (but not that the seller did it, but someone at the postal system did it), but I told the guy about it and he said that this has happened to him when he bought prints (but I don't know if he was saying that to make me feel better), and he insisted on sending me out more prints to make up for them (which I declined, coz I don't want anymore prints in the postal system with my name on it), so I doubt he was trying to rip me off.

I'm gonna try and take a better pic in better lighting sometime. Also I want to try and scrape what I can off of each print and see if the pile matches up with the first pic.

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This can also happen if someone chooses to print caps that have already dropped their spores heavily. Leading to a lesser drop on the foil. You should still easily be able to get a culture running from that, regardless.

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yeah that could have played a role. it looks like 2 out of the 3 weren't very much to begin with so yeah (and the darkest print is the one that has the most spores spread out on the card and a bit on the rear of the card)

winemaker said:

Out of all of my mushroom hunting and spore prints taken, I've never turn out like that after any amount of time. #4 especially looks scraped as if by a rectangular blade. Like others said, should be enough there to start a culture and then you can clean it up from there. Messed up someone would do that to your postage.

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I mostly was referring to but they shipped them on mid Wed and they arrived on Mon, so I don't know how long it takes for them to do whatever it is they do when they find these things. so its not like it was held up for a week or anything

Mattrus said:

Honestly the prints are on sketchy paper inside of trading card holder pages cut up into sections. They should be printed and wrapped up on foil then sealed inside a ziploc. Moisture could have easily gotten in there and wiped the spores all over. I would bet on that way more than a postal employee sabotaging your mail.

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yeah i think that could also have played a role, tho i don't think its regular trading card holders cut up, its some sort of thin plastic that has sticky strip on the top and side, but even so as you said this wouldn't be airtight at all.

Also, the person only put these in a regular envolope, they didn't fold them up in regualr paper or a B-day card or anything, so i'm suppose they could have been knocking back and forth the whole time in the envolope.

tomorow i'm gonna get a stanley knife blade and scrape everything i can get off them into seperate piles and ask you guys if the piles look like they match up to what those before pictures should equate to. that should give a better idea.

LogicaL Chaos said:

Never know

More likely it was tampered with before mailing it, at least thats my current theory.

I also noticed each card has a sharpie number on it as well. Who put that there?

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bodhisatta said:

No, they absolutely didn't do that lol. They would seize the entire thing and send you a note saying they took it. They just look like some amateur business spore prints

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Mattrus said:

Most logical thing is they bounced around the envelope and lost the spores. Its a bummer for you and I would take him up on the offer for another shipment if you cant get a clean culture out of that.

Also it would be a felony to tamper with your mail I doubt someone opened your package and scraped your spores or syringed them lol. Spores are legal to send in the mail for most states so you really shouldnt be worried. Thats why we do it for eachother all the time (:

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Professor X said:

Dude, the man doesn't give a damn about your microscopy spores. It got to your house on the 3rd business day after it shipped and you think they somehow had time to open your mail, take a sample, reseal it and get it to you? This thread is akin to the tweakers that think the government is spending 10k per hour to watch their stupid high asses take apart vacuum cleaners. Gtfoh, bs like this scares newbies. Maybe dial back whatever it is that you're using that caused this psychotic episode.

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