Wednesday 4 October 2017

Fake Blue Banana Seeds

More ebay thieves selling fake seeds, this time they are selling banana seeds.  These are not my pictures.  Below are a bunch of pictures that I found on actual ebay listings, not one of these things exists.  The ebay thieves make thousands of dollars from selling seeds that do not exist, they post seeds to the buyer, and by the time you have worked out that something is wrong it is too late to get your money back.

Blue Bananas
Blue bananas don't exist.  There are heaps of pictures of them on the internet, someone has taken a picture and digitally changes the colour.  There are some varieties where the unripe bananas are green/blue, but no vibrant blue varieties.  Please never buy anything from anyone who sells blue banana seeds as they are thieves and won't give you what you paid for.
Blue banana do NOT exist
Bonsai Bananas
How cute do bonsai banana plants look!  Being tiny means even in a cool climate I could grow them as I could protect them and keep them somewhere warm.  Unfortunately bonsai bananas do NOT exist.  These plants are not real, the picture is of a pretend plant.  It is not alive, it is fake.  Please never fund these ebay thieves, never buy anything that they are selling if they sell bonsai banana seeds.

bonsai banana does NOT exist

Giant bananas
Seriously, people bought fake ebay seeds for these?  I am tempted to say something nasty about the type of person who would be taken in by this kind of lie.  Bananas don't have the genetic potential to ever reach this size, I don't see why anyone would think that they do.  Even with GM technology bananas will NEVER get this big

Giant banana do NOT exist and will NEVER exist

Various coloured bananas
These ebay thieves are not even trying, they got one picture of bananas and have changed its colours digitally.  Other than the unripe green none of these colours exist, please DON'T buy seeds for these!

Multicolour banana - same picture recoloured
Banana melons
At first this add made me wonder if it was an ebay thief, or just a confused seller.  I read through the listing and found they were the former.  This is a picture of a yellow zucchini, nothing terribly rare.  The description talks about sweet melons.  Zucchini are far from sweet, if anything they are very bland.  This seller is selling seeds of several other things that don't exist, which helps show what type of person they are.

People sometimes assume ebay seed thieves are located in China, but there is no reason that they are not from any other country, including ours!  Just because these thieves are located in Australia, and they will send you seeds quickly, it doesn't mean that they are not trying to steal from you.  When you leave your house you lock it to keep the thieves out, so you understand that there are thieves in our country too.
Banana melon?  This is actually just a normal zucchini

Photoshopped coloured Bananas
No surprises here, they have done a dodgy job of changing the colours and are selling seeds of bananas that don't exist.  If anyone is selling any seeds that don't exist please never buy anything from them.

As pointed out in a comment below, pink bananas DO exist.  Musa velutina grows pink skinned bananas that look amazing.  The pink in the picture below has been altered digitally.  Do some research and be certain that what you are buying is a real colour and was not photoshopped.
Blue bananas don't exist, and this pink was photoshopped

Rainbow bananas
It is very rare (but certainly not impossible) for anything to have multiple coloured fruit on the same plant.  Sure some chillies do it, but not bananas.  I have never seen that blue on any fruit or vegetable.  These ebay thieves have changed the colours, these bananas look amazing, but they don't exist.  Please don't buy anything from these ebay thieves.
Rainbow bananas do NOT exist
Ebay thieves everywhere
I have written several other posts on ebay seeds that don't exist.  The more I look on ebay the more seeds I see listed for sale (by local and premium members with 99% or higher ratings) that don't exist.  Just because seeds are cheap, and they have free postage, and that the seller has a great rating, doesn't mean that they are selling you something that even exists, please do some research before buying any seeds from ebay.

All of my posts on fake ebay seeds have been labelled "Things that don't exist" to make them easier to find.

7 comments:

  1. actually pink bananas exist

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    1. You are absolutely right, they do! Musa velutina certainly has pink skin, I completely forgot about them.

      The ones in the photos above were very clearly photoshopped forgeries.

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    2. yes I got taken and I feel so stupid bank did give me a provisional credit for them but I was duped!

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  2. There are Blue Bananas sold on Amazon.

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    1. I know, Amazon and Ebay are filled with all kinds of fake seeds.

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    2. actually blue java banana does exist( i don't know why they named it as java when it's not even from java).. the skin not as blue as first pic (they not even try to put the real plant pic).. its more like sky blue or blue greenish (i don't know whether this 2 it's the same kind but it does taste the same to me) and the inside is not blue (creamy custard like to be exact) ... need to be careful when buy it seed online as it's cost more than yellow banana (they might send not as they advertised to rack more profit)..for giant banana, the biggest i saw was a size of half arm of grown man produce from Musa ingens.. i doubt you can get to plant it.. first,as far as i know it was endemic species of papua (means hard to grow outside it) and second musa ingens tree are likely to grow very tall (young plant can have a height like 3-4 times grown up asian guy height)

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