I live in SC, and was able to visit Wayside in person. I was hoping to be able to browse their nursery and find some nice plants. They only have one section that is open to the public, and those are "sale" plants. I was very disappointed. If that were my nursery, I would have been embarrassed to have those things for sale - they were all in very poor condition. I didn't see the hydrangea I came for, so I asked at the counter, and they brought a few very nice plants from the greenhouse for me to pick through. Sounds like they are probably pulling plants from the sale section to mail out. After hearing all the horror stories, I would never mail order from Wayside.

The average person knows the name Freon, not R-22 or R-410A, so they use it. It's not really a scam or bait and switch. It's offering something "free" that you may or may not need if your system needs repair. You can be sure their prices will cover their refrigerant costs, so it's probably no deal in the end.

I almost didn't go with Dekton after I read all of these discussions, but I did because I don't like how quartz looks and didn't want to deal with real marble. Any product will have pros and cons. I try to be careful but my heart has stopped a couple times accidentally knocking pans into this....no chips so far. I asked the installers (who are contractors and work with various fabricators) if this stuff chips more than other stone and they said they repair it less frequently than natural stone. I don't know why people have such different experiences with it but I wanted to offer a positive experience. It's beautiful, it's a dream to clean....indestructible, no, but so far so good. Ironically I spent weeks agonizing over my countertop material and it's my cabinets that are chipping. Life happens!

I've had the exact same thing happen to me with three different email contacts of mine. All three of the contacts were ones I hadn't used in years. The first time I responded to the sender who was asking if I could do him a favor. When he replied that he wanted me to buy a gift card for his niece, I realized I was being duped. The second one was obviously not written by the person I knew. The punctuation and writing style was completely off. I ignored it. The third one was sent to both myself and my husband, again ignored. To me It seems rather sophisticated to be able to get into my contact list like this, but then the 'ask' seems very clumsy and obvious. If only these people could put their clever minds to something virtuous!