True PLANT Crime in TEXAS: PART 1 | Pretty in Green Documentary

[@prettyingreen]

PART 2: kzbin.info/www/bejne/m2LLhoqLqLGXrassi=JwwSHCKYOvstB6qh

[@emmaperez748]

I know some people have commented they don’t like these style videos but the only way to protect us as consumers is to bring this to our attention! I subscribed for these plant drama videos but I love all your content! Keep it up😁

[@prettyingreen]

Thank you for understanding this. 265/274 videos on my channel are how tos on how you grow plants. But these shitty people have to be stopped. Nothing else is working. Hopefully we can get the attention of the proper authorities in Texas

[@monas.6839]

I love this style of video. I’m so scared to order plants online that I’ve only ordered from 2 sellers ever - and I only started ordering from them when I found out they’re both located within 30 minutes of me. These dirtbags need to be called out and held responsible.

[@emmaperez748]

@@monas.6839 same here! I only order from places that people I trust recommend!! Otherwise I stick to bigger plant retailers!! (Think Canopy Plant co, not Home Depot lol)

[@davidcardenas7428]

1000% true everything that was said here. I've been scammed out of $40, thankfully, not more. Sent money, plant never came, no effort to meet up, nothing but excuses on why he's not able to meet until the following week over and over. Asked for payment returned and then radio silence since then (now 3 months later.)

[@artemistv3221]

You official a Plant Investigator. Uuuuuh. The main theme in the Background. :-) I loooooove it!

[@prettyingreen]

🤗 the details!

[@kylekozlowski4641]

Nice!!! Love these docuseries videos you’ve been doing!! Congrats on baby!!

[@prettyingreen]

Thank you!!! This one was WILD and GONNA GET CRAZIER

[@Channing3]

They scammed me! Hopefully this will prevent others from getting taken advantage of.

[@prettyingreen]

I’m really sorry that happened. Hopefully we can get this stopped!

[@jaclynns.jungle]

Appreciate you for sharing this!!

[@Kati-did]

So sad! I bought from their etsy and did local pick up. I bought from their store and pop ups. Then everyone started getting scammed. I am lucky I didn't buy from any of their purges. You covered this very well. 100% facts! WOW I didn't know about the end. CRAZY!!!

[@generationia]

Can’t wait for part II. What a cliff hanger Chris. Thought about writing mystery novels? Appreciate you a lot.

[@prettyingreen]

Thank you, Shaun!!!

[@marilynjay9117]

I love that you guys do serious due diligence on these stories.

[@poilaaliop]

Jeez, what a mess! Thanks for bringing this to light

[@JakeC394]

I'm so invested in true plant crime. These videos are so well done.❤

[@prettyingreen]

Thank you so much!! 🙌

[@kuhriynuh]

Haha this sounded too familiar and I went back in to my emails and I had actually tried to order from them! The guy sent me two very different wild excuses and then issued me a refund. 😆

[@prettyingreen]

Ohhh nooo! I’m glad you got your money back though!!

[@wanderotter4667]

I've been scammed before. I rather buy from small businesses and individuals but this makes it hard.

[@prettyingreen]

I agree. The plant industry is in a tough place right now

[@Billie-jo_field]

Thank you for the great content, for taking the time to address the dark side of the plant community and making us all aware so we can be more informed consumers. I look forward to your episodes…..

[@Glitziegutz]

Other than bringing awareness to these scams and promoting safe payment options like PayPal goods and services where your money is protected, how do we stop scammers like this? Thanks for showing everyone their true colors!

[@jonathanc698]

Omg, I live in the Fort Worth area, I’ve seen their listings on Facebook marketplace, I was about to buy something from them, thank goodness i didn’t, thank you for making this vid

[@prettyingreen]

YES! This is EXACTLY why I made this. He’s still selling on Marketplace and Instagram

[@GenRN]

Hi Planty neighbor! I’m in FtW, too!!

[@jonathanc698]

@@GenRN hello planty neighbor 🪴🌱

[@floopalaide]

im so obsessed. coffeezilla of the plant community

[@prettyingreen]

😭🫶

[@nedimhodzic6002]

Thank you for making this video! These people are horrible and need to be brought down.

[@prettyingreen]

Thank YOU for putting us on 😅

[@tracysullivan7913]

Another awesome video with content that should be shown to help any potential customer steer clear from them, looking forward to part 2.

[@xerxezrax]

you are awesome and i LOVE these videos! please make a video about the drama that surrounded the original plant purge USA group.

[@manuelavonwitte]

I second this!

[@hadooart4161]

I love plant drama 😂

[@prettyingreen]

ME TOO

[@maddy99077]

As soon as I see a plant drama, I click!!

[@BekahMarie11]

I love these!!!!!

[@JohnMacdonald-bt6yb]

Thank you for putting this together. I was also scammed by this company and after not receiving my order for 7 months I wrote a negative review about my experience. They then proceeded to leave negative 1 star reviews on my personal small business in retaliation. These people have no integrity.

[@prettyingreen]

Damn. That’s SOO shitty, but unfortunately doesn’t surprise me at all…

[@zantonbo]

200 comments in 24 hours is crazy. How has this not been reported to local authorities in Texas? Curious when the Texas energy crisis context can be applied to this timeline.

[@monas.6839]

They would most likely say it’s a civil matter, but one would think the district attorney could get involved.

[@charlottecobain6986]

@@monas.6839Agree. They did take action against a social media influencer for some kind of dieting coach scam earlier this year. Not sure if they were making an example out of her or what but if there’s truly this much money involved then it’s more than the 5-600,00k that influencer scammed. It sounds like this business already has tax problems so maybe they’ll take notice. It always amazes me how brazen some of these people are to continue the grift.

[@laurenraebb]

This is WILD. Netflix series on the way 😅

[@prettyingreen]

🫶

[@Swayambhu]

I'm so glad you're covering these people, they've been a horrible menace for as long as I started getting into the local plant scene 3-4 years ago.

[@prettyingreen]

It’s so wild they are STILL operating

[@ChynelHall]

LOVE this approach! Thank you!

[@prettyingreen]

Thanks for always checking out the vids Chynel!!!! 🙏

[@whatwhodid7152]

Instead of HBO True Crime it's True Plant

[@prettyingreen]

I love this 😅😂

[@carolstuff]

Wow, what wicked ppl! Look fwd to pt 2

[@northernplantucky]

And this is why I only buy a plant that I can see and touch in person before paying

[@jasongarland3165]

I expect the Fort Worth PD and Tarrant County DA should hear about this as well.

[@camryndetten7245]

we used to eat their plant purges up!! i never got scammed but things started getting weird when i stopped following them

[@cillal9198]

Jail jail jail 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

[@ILikeYouOkay]

Please let me know if you need more evidence of all their excuses. I have receipts from my transactions 😅

[@prettyingreen]

Yes! Please send any info to: [e-mail]

[@GenRN]

I live in FtW and this is so fascinating!!!! I have been waiting for an order from Golden Greenery Co on Etsy for 3 weeks now and wondering if it is a scam. Also just for future reference: the name of the street “Bowie” is pronounced BOO-EE (not bOWE-E. Like Jim Bowie of the Battle of the Alamo fame. Who the Bowie knife is also named after.

[@Ruby-wt6bf]

I hope Edward is embarrassed every single time he walks out of his home. Nobody feels bad for you, or your family.

[@prettyingreen]

Just get a job and support your wife and daughter. GTFO OF THE PLANT WORLD

[@tyragarrett8506]

Ive bought plants from them. I usually go to the shop and pay with cash in person. I am a regular customer.

[@2AnnaLea2]

Same - I just proceed with caution

[@tym4094]

And they’re scamming people online with the plants you’re buying in person 😂

[@zellahluiz]

JUUUIIIICCYYYYYYYYYYY But seriously, I cannot believe I bought so many plants from them in person. And they gave away so many free plants every time I went in, almost doubling the number of plants every time. Hoyas, begonias, aroids. He always gave me sinister "fake" vibes, very woe-is-me, always something dramatic, so I never got very close with them or offered to help because they just seemed like there was alot more going on behind the scenes that was probably unsavory. Leech vibes. Glad they're getting outed!

[@prettyingreen]

Interesting!! All the free plants seemed like a flag to me… and the prices were always sooo sooo low

[@zellahluiz]

I agree now, but at the time I was propagating a ton of plants and also gave away free babies when people bought from me so I didn't even consider it odd. Many PPUs included baby props as well, so it felt like a prevalent kindness at the time as the community was traditionally big on giving and sharing. Just crazy how toxic these people were, predating on generosity and one of the *least toxic* hobby communities that exist. Just shameful.

[@em_lovesdogs]

Are you sharing this to IG? You should

[@prettyingreen]

Yes! There’s a Reel on @prettyingreenplants

[@linling1240]

Yikes I bought plants from them 3 years ago.

[@wellsie970]

I knew that 9.99 obliqua was too good to be true 😂

[@prettyingreen]

Lol yeah sounds like it 😭😂

[@wellsie970]

Hey, this might be a crazy question but I have the ugliest white knight in history. I got at a discount at Walmart because it was absolutely gnarly looking and covered in spider mites. I have it bug free now but how would you go about making a wet stick out of a plant that has all the leaves on all the available nodes? I've asked all my plant groups and no one has a good idea. Trim off all the leaves sterilize it and then put it in a prop box? Or All around a bad idea and I should just live with it being ugly? Or do I just cut at all the nodes wait for them to root and then trim off the ugliest leaf after the new pretty leaves come in? Edit to add: I think I just watched every single one of your propagation videos including the one about pink princess. Prepping my hydrogen peroxide and alcohol now lmao

[@prettyingreen]

@@wellsie970 Yes sterilize and then a small amount of moisture to root!

[@kellyduguay3368]

That's so whack....I haven't gone thru my Etsy purchases to see if I purchased through them, but I definitely am familiar with that shop name, both from Etsy and IG. Wow, it sounds like they're such lovely people 🤢🤢🤢

[@yivmaiden]

#coffeezilla but for plants 🪴

[@prettyingreen]

Literally my favorite KZbinr 🫶 means a lot!

[@stevecrawford3009]

My wife bought hundreds of dollars of plants from them, gave them plants from her own collection, and they still scammed her.

[@prettyingreen]

Damn. I’m really sorry to hear that. They’ve gotten SO many people

[@serenitydiehl1441]

Wow I worked with this guy that’s crazy

[@aplantprocess]

Oh my. As someone who sells plants, this type of content must put you at risk. It doesn’t surprise me that you’d be targeted but wow, it’s a bummer that you were (with fake negative reviews). I have heard that new buyers are now hyper concerned about being scammed and are treating all sellers like scammers and are essentially trying to scam sellers by asking for refunds or discounts that aren’t reasonable. That’s not on people like you at all but definitely a problem worth mentioned as well (and you have so thanks for that too).

[@prettyingreen]

I think about this a lot.. the plant buy/sell community definitely needs an overhaul. Feels like lots of avenues to buy have been burned

[@brooklin_bernek]

Are they still scamming now?

[@Swayambhu]

Yes

[@prettyingreen]

YUP! Still selling on FB marketplace AND Instagram stories @planted__roots

[@elizabethlacey7708]

Wow, that is horrible!!!

[@Katherineixchelsalas]

OMG someone finally exposes these people!

[@wandashaw3551]

Plant Karma 🪴 will hopefully make all of these wrongs right for the customers taken advantage of. 😢