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You know I didn't even consider the wood being green... I assumed it was ready to cut, their ad said nothing about green wood.
I guess I've been spoiled by dry wood deliveries. I never would have bid on green wood, I don't have the space for drying it!
 
This just seems strange to me that an outfit like this is going to be deliberately misrepresenting their product. I have had no dealings with them, but they were listed as an exhibitor at the AAW Symposium in Portland. They seem to be a fairly big operator. Could this be just a communication issue?

http://www.cookwoods.com/

I'm going to Oregon on vacation next week and planned to stop by here because of the AAW affiliation, their website and its on my route. I hate to see a reputable dealer get slammed if they don't deserve it.

Again, I don't know if they are on the up and up or not. It just doesn't pass the smell test to me if they are operating at this scale and they are dealing with the AAW. Maybe I'm too trusting.
Richard
 
We are from Oregon, and have dealt with Cook Woods several times. We met them personally at the AAW in Portland. Every time we have called they have been VERY helpful and nice to work with. Also they are the biggest lumber supplier to most of the wood working stores and furniture makers in the state, possibly the whole northwest. I know for a fact they supply most of the wood that our local Wood Craft sells. We have also talked with other store owners that deal with them and everyone has been very happy.
One thing that I will say is that no matter how good a supplier is, nobody CAN please everyone, every time. I am sure that there is someone, somewhere that can something bad about every supplier out there.
But remember that attitude makes a big difference! (I have learned that the hard way! [:I])

Just my thoughts on the issue!
Dawn
 
I have Amboyna(4.00 Each), red and brown mallee(2.50 Each), yellow box(2.50 Each), red river gum(2.00 Each), black ash burl(3.00 Each), bubinga (sap(2.00 Each) & heart(3.00 Each) and two tone(5.00 Each)), walnut burl(1.00 Each), Taz burl(2.00 Each), Coolabah(3.00 Each) Rosewood burl 6.00 Each. And probably a few I forgot to mention. Also I have a new load coming in on the 14th from AU. It will contain a new Mallee burl specie just named, yellow box burl, grey box burl, red box burl, Iron bark burl and some more red mallee burl. And a bunch I probably forgot to mention. If you check in classifieds anything, I have sold before I generally keep on hand.
 
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<br />I have Amboyna(4.00 Each), red and brown mallee(2.50 Each), yellow box(2.50 Each), red river gum(2.00 Each), black ash burl(3.00 Each), bubinga (sap(2.00 Each) & heart(3.00 Each) and two tone(5.00 Each)), walnut burl(1.00 Each), Taz burl(2.00 Each), Coolabah(3.00 Each) Rosewood burl 6.00 Each. And probably a few I forgot to mention. Also I have a new load coming in on the 14th from AU. It will contain a new Mallee burl specie just named, yellow box burl, grey box burl, red box burl, Iron bark burl and some more red mallee burl. And a bunch I probably forgot to mention. If you check in classifieds anything, I have sold before I generally keep on hand.
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..... and Nolan has a 100% positive rating.
 
I have not read anything buy the original post and the few below it, so I don't know if this has already been said, but you are able to file with ebay/paypal if the seller is unwilling to refund. It's called "severely not as described" I believe... If you search that under "Help" you should find some useful info.

Also, for your own protection as far as ebay goes, they have a policy against what they call "transaction interference"... I don't know if posting specifics about an ebay auction here would count toward that, or if that seller would ever have a reason to be on here to see it... But it may be possible that the seller could argue that you are discouraging other potential customers here or something like that. I only add this last part because woodturning/penturning seems to be a pretty small community. I'm sure it's an unlikely event, anyway.
 
Oh yeah and when it comes to eBay, always look at a seller's feedback CAREFULLY...

www.toolhaus.org

This is a website where you can type in the seller's name (any member ID for that matter) and it will pull up every negative and neutral feedback the seller has EVER had. It's really useful with large volume sellers because they might get 10 or 15 feedbacks in a day, so if you want to find one that was left this month, that's a lot to look through!!

Also, a high-volume seller might have 99.8% positive feedback, but still have a lot of negative feedback. There have been many times after reading the specifics of what the neg feedbacks have to say, I have changed my mind about bidding.
 
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