FYI. Recently some eBay vendors have been visited and had their export permits suspended due to complaints about eBay purchases. Rumor has it that the source of the complaints haunts our forum. I don't know if it is for personal greed, or some misguided belief that CITES enforcement is always beneficial to the survival of Slippers in the wild. I believe that in some cases, collectors went crazy and scoured the sites of plants until hardly a trace remained and these collected plants were wasted because propagation and distribution efforts were insufficient, Paph. canhii for example. I believe in other cases plants were distributed to responsible growers and the lab/nursery grown prodigy totally relieved the burden from wild collected populations, Paph. sanderianum for example. I know that a large amounts of a certain newer species were removed from the wild and the collector is making serious efforts to both distribute the plants and to propagate them. The interference caused by the actions of the complaintant could have serious effects on the plans of this collector. I open this thread in hope of a response from the originator of the eBay complaints; and I welcome input from all participants of this forum.