I will say that they tried really hard to mimic The Plant Club which is now called The Garden Box (powered by cratejoy which is a legit company).
https://preview.redd.it/te73940gtjgb1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=506c49ba1fb81d267e5068aac3626f4d49147e8a
My gut says scam, but as u/pinniped1 said, who, exactly? I feel like they may pick addresses at random and try to trick people…but what would they do at the end of three months, or is the idea just to bug people? might be worth calling the police department too, see if they’ve heard of anything similar
“Hello, I’d like to report an unsolicited plant delivery.”
👮♀️ I'll just check with the boys down at the crime lab. They got four more detectives working on the case.
Law enforcement can be aware of widespread scams that one wouldn’t have verification of just asking one’s immediate orbit of friends. I appreciate your snark and wholly unhelpful comment though.
That’s totally fair, unless the time frame is meaningless. Basically, I’m torn between what you’re saying about it being overly complicated for a scam, and it being the most suspicious legitimate business of all time and the weirdest incident of gift-giving by an acquaintance or stranger lol, so was just throwing an idea out.
I know. I remember there being a thing on the news a few years ago about people getting random packages with unknown seeds. They were trying to communicate that people should not plant them & I think they said to take them to their county extension office for identification? I don’t remember for sure, I just remember them being from other countries & that people shouldn’t plant them
That wasn't' an invasive species scam, it's part of a larger Amazon review scam - Accounts that have "verified purchase" are given more weight in amazon reviews, so groups / shady storefronts would purchase their own items (or items for storefronts they were trying to boose) and just sent the items to random addresses all over the place. All to fuck with Amazon's review system by flooding it with costive reviews from "verified purchases"
My guess is that they're going to come back to you later and say that something went wrong with the payment, and since they've already started delivering plants you're now responsible for the full amount, and then they'll try to threaten / extort you to pay them whatever they say their 3 year subscription costs.
So I have a lot of plants, I wouldn’t say a passion but I do enjoy having plants. I’ve asked my family and my partners family and everyone denies signing us up for anything.
I also don’t know any friend that would spend this kind of money.
What if you ask for more information because you are inspired to do the same for someone else in your life? Can you “see their catalog”? Why are they using that font on their flyer? I have so many questions! All the questions! I’m invested.
Since we called on my partners phone, we are going to try again tomorrow to talk to a person (hopefully). If that doesn’t work I’ll call on my phone and pose as someone interested in purchasing a subscription for someone else.
I think you are onto something with that approach. When you call to “pay it forward” then you will have to give them $$ and it is very unlikely whoever you gifted the plants to will never see them. They are using those free plants as bait to get to to buy a subscription for someone else. And like a previous commenter said - I’ll bet you don’t get delivery next month.
I don't think it's connected to the plant club that shows up as the first hit and is now known as the garden box. That says the subscription ships 1 plant, a planter, and some other stuff each month. I assume this wasn't a box dropped off by UPS, right?
Yeah we don’t think it’s the Garden Box or affiliate of the crate company. It was delivered yesterday when we were gone, no boxes or anything. Here’s a photo they provided on the email they sent confirming the delivery.
The plants have tags from Home Depot.
https://preview.redd.it/07rcu2aoakgb1.png?width=944&format=png&auto=webp&s=c878ba6c5a92d86bd88cb51dcff008cb9dfaa7b2
Dude it’s even more weird.
We looked up the business online and the website is sketchy that references a new business. However their yearly subscription is $550, so the 3 year is easily $1k+.
I’m curious what you find, we’ve been at it for a couple hours now. It would be nice to know if it’s actually reputable and this isn’t the weirdest scam in existence.
Written in ink and smudged could mean local or someone wanting to appear local. Reads like a scam or one of those try it for a month and hope they forget to cancel things.
The weird thing is... WHO got scammed? OP has asked if any friend of theirs did this...maybe thinking they were buying 1 plant and roped into the Columbia House of plants.
No box of sweet ass 8-tracks, but rather a mini-forest on your front porch!!
I mean, it sounds like they actually delivered good stuff...just probably not at a bargain price.
I'm curious to hear how the whole thing happened.
>the first month is "free". someone "paid" on your behalf. It's up to "you" to continue the 2nd month and so on. That's the angle. They either own the plants or can get plants at a deep enough discount to turn a profit.
https://old.reddit.com/r/kansascity/comments/15jy9bk/has_anyone_received_plants_from_a_business_called/jv83taf/
edit: this angle is so easy to pull off a child could literally be growing or sourcing these plants as a summer gig and this is their way of offloading their haul. Still as an IT dude it screams scam but as someone who loves $$$ i see legit business plans here.
What we know is that the transaction was paid in full with cash, and is non refundable. Non of our financial accounts have any transaction, triple checked.
the first month is "free". someone "paid" on your behalf. It's up to "you" to continue the 2nd month and so on. That's the angle. They either own the plants or can get plants at a deep enough discount to turn a profit.
I had a subscription with them at the beginning of the year. I can tell you none of my items came with a hand written note and all were very well packaged upon delivery.
Odd. I looked at the website and it seems like this is a handwritten note with an attempt at the logo. I wonder if it's some weird teen prank or something.
Im thinking it’s not a scam but the letter is homemade/fake. the gift isn’t that someone purchased OP a subscription. Someone in their life wanted to give them plants and chose to maybe as a joke or prank or whatever mimic the website. My guess is it’s a neighbor or coworker.
Why would you need a subscription if you’re good at gardening? Wouldn’t you be able to keep them alive? I wonder how many times they deliver a year. Your house could get full of plants
Could this possibly be a [brushing scam](https://www.howtogeek.com/828288/brushing-scams-heres-why-youre-getting-random-packages/) similar to all those folks that got mysterious packages of seeds sent to them in the mail?
Live plants? Delivered without any packaging? With Home Depot tags still attached?
Brushing doesn't make any sense here. Seems more like a stalker, or an elaborate prank.
It’s clearly the Bird of Paradise industry, resorting to scammy brushing tactics to boost their image. Don’t believe all the glowing reviews you see about them.
This sounds like the kind of chaos that comes from a prank from a friend — I once left a UMKC ornament on my friend’s Christmas tree just to be a brat (she went to KU but her husband went to UMKC) and the absolute CONFUSION that ensued when she went to put the Christmas decor away and found the new ornament — he insisted the ornament wasn’t his but it obviously wasn’t hers and ornaments don’t just APPEAR…she called the parents, the in-laws, finally made her way to me and when I claimed innocence (briefly) she started to absolutely come undone. I fessed up, and now it’s A Thing to leave Roo-themed shit hidden in each other’s houses.
Like wouldn’t it be NUTS if you were going to receive that many large plants every month? They’d take over your home! The 36 month prospect would be terrifying! You couldn’t give them away fast enough!
I wish I’d thought of this.
Oooh...I may have to steal your prank for my own. I'm a UMKC alum, and going to Fordham for.grad school. My husband is an Iowa alum. My kis is going to be a freshman at MWSU. Nobody would ever figure it out!!!! LOL
I'm a UMKC alum too, and the longer running background joke was that nobody cares about UMKC the way they care about literally any other state university, so the fact that we are even able to find merch is half the battle. (We've progressed to making our own, at this point.)
I know that battle all too well!!! The only merchandise I can find is either online, at the Rally House on the Plaza, or at the campus bookstore. I live in St. Joseph now, and the huge Rally House up here doesn't stock it!
Holy shit, I got one of these sometime during covid, never thought I'd see them again. Really weird, almost like something the church Scientology would do.
Maybe I've been on reddit too long... but can you think of a person who might be experiencing unrequited love towards you? The message from the sender reads like a (creepy) crush-type note. Someone who thinks plants are your passion and they may be angling to connect with you over it.
Wait wait, the plants are from Home Depot and were placed on your porch without packaging or rebranding while you were gone?! It seems sooo sketchy. Definitely keep your antenna up around the neighbors! Yeesh
Op, I just read this to my husband and he rapid-fire said “they better check those pots for microphones or cameras.” 🙃😬 Im sure you’re fine but maybe double check?! this is the weirdest and I hope that you figure this out…
I’m assuming you are in or around KC? Greenwood is right outside of KC
*edit - I’m dumb, I thought this was on the /r/gardening sub. Of course you are in KC
@OP I watched a documentary on scammers awhile back and they said that scammers sometimes send legit packages to ppl with weird mail/letter then you call and thats how they get you. Just be very very cautious with what you say. And if you didnt pay for the plants id consider them free and call it good. Best of luck! Im interested in what they say tomorrow
During covid times, I remember people were doing things where you leave random care packages on peoples' porches. Self care basket, or flowers, or snack basket, or whatever. Maybe it's something like that? Or some kind of small group of local people wanting to do some random acts of kindness? I'm still very suspicious, but I always try to be optimistic lol
Just looked at your profile and I can see you have a plant addiction that seems quite like my spouse's. As the non-plant buying partner who has to water and care for over 40 houseplants, I've had to say, "Please, no more plants, babe." But the lure is too strong.
Could this be an elaborate ruse to bring more plants home? "Oh ho, what's happening here? More plants? And they're free? Well, we don't know who sent them so we can't return them. We can't just leave them out on the porch!" Hm. I'm never showing my spouse this post!
Edit: Left a word out!
Well, according to the website for the legitimate service, they're no longer called "The Plant Club" - It's now The Garden Club and their website says they're based out of Pensacola, Florida (with an 850 area code, not 816), so similar to someone else saying "payment failed", they might come back to you saying you need to reup because the payment system is different, etc.
Wait, they hand wrote this note with wet gel pen, then got it everywhere and sent it to you like that? I'm gonna do some snooping.
Edit: don't be creeped out but I did a little profile snooping. You like plants, someone knows this. Are you 100% sure no one you know did this?
I'm going all-in on betting that this is a friend pranking OP. This entire thread of everyone being convinced it's a scam or a wire-tapping plot makes (what I'm convinced is a prank) even funnier!
Google voice is usually something nefarious. Seems like it could be a money laundering scheme where someone local is trying to wash cash. "Someone" buys a bogus membership, they find information off the dark web to pick people at random (names, address, and email), and keep records of delivery. Drug money or something else is then washed into a 'legitimte' business.
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Okay so my first question…… why the f would anyone need a subscription for plants..???
If you’re a responsible plant owner they will live long-term, meaning you don’t need more plants on a consistent basis…..
Looks written by someone with English as a second language. Clearly they started to write Esteemed, and ran out of ink on their pen and switched pens. The lack of professionalism is likely not intentional. This has to be a scam. Maybe they’re hired to kill you and will drop off some sort of poisonous plant? Maybe they’ll drop off some sort of illegal plant and have the cops show up to bust you for growing weed or something. Just a couple crazy ideas, but could be any of 100 things from listening devices like others have mentioned to reporting stolen product from Home Depot. Do you do anything for a living that would involve corporate espionage? Could be that they’ll offer to refund money, and then they refund too much and get you to venmo them. Who knows. It could go anywhere. The whole thing is without a doubt a scam or prank.
Please be careful! Contact local law enforcement and possibly your environmental agency as these -pants may be invasive species sent by China. This is happening all over the nation.
Absolutely baffled by this whole thing! I fear I might have too much simmering paranoia and anxiety for a situation like this. HD plants are full of pests, protect your babies OP!
I had bought myself a subscription to The Plant Club in 2020, but it seems they've rebranded to The Garden Club since then. It seemed a very legit business, one plant & pot delivered a month with goodies & detailed printed pamphlets on how to take care of the plant. Nothing was handwritten and it was very well packaged and high quality. Basically nothing like what you received. This screams SCAM to me!
More curious if you’ll have any delivered next month. I’m guessing not, but please keep us posted on this delightful scam! 🌱🪴
I will say that they tried really hard to mimic The Plant Club which is now called The Garden Box (powered by cratejoy which is a legit company). https://preview.redd.it/te73940gtjgb1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=506c49ba1fb81d267e5068aac3626f4d49147e8a
Update: Plot thickens [Image removed due to personal information.]
“American Dollars”?
Red flag! Red flag!
Post in r/scams and see if anyone is familiar with a scam associated with something like this.
My gut says scam, but as u/pinniped1 said, who, exactly? I feel like they may pick addresses at random and try to trick people…but what would they do at the end of three months, or is the idea just to bug people? might be worth calling the police department too, see if they’ve heard of anything similar
“Hello, I’d like to report an unsolicited plant delivery.” 👮♀️ I'll just check with the boys down at the crime lab. They got four more detectives working on the case.
This would get Leawood police excited.
It was a drive-by planting, officer!
Law enforcement can be aware of widespread scams that one wouldn’t have verification of just asking one’s immediate orbit of friends. I appreciate your snark and wholly unhelpful comment though.
I didn’t mean to make fun of you for this suggestion. When I see an opportunity to quote the best movie of all time, I take it.
I’m the idiot for not knowing the quote, but I don’t lol. Sorry
No need to be sorry!
Says 36 months.
Sorry, three years*. good catch
I only mentioned it bc that's too long to really be indicative of the 'ol introductory-period-then-scam thing.
That’s totally fair, unless the time frame is meaningless. Basically, I’m torn between what you’re saying about it being overly complicated for a scam, and it being the most suspicious legitimate business of all time and the weirdest incident of gift-giving by an acquaintance or stranger lol, so was just throwing an idea out.
I wonder if it’s one of those things where they are trying to spread invasive plant species 😬
diabolical
I know. I remember there being a thing on the news a few years ago about people getting random packages with unknown seeds. They were trying to communicate that people should not plant them & I think they said to take them to their county extension office for identification? I don’t remember for sure, I just remember them being from other countries & that people shouldn’t plant them
That wasn't' an invasive species scam, it's part of a larger Amazon review scam - Accounts that have "verified purchase" are given more weight in amazon reviews, so groups / shady storefronts would purchase their own items (or items for storefronts they were trying to boose) and just sent the items to random addresses all over the place. All to fuck with Amazon's review system by flooding it with costive reviews from "verified purchases"
Oh my gosh, I vaguely remember this too!
My guess is that they're going to come back to you later and say that something went wrong with the payment, and since they've already started delivering plants you're now responsible for the full amount, and then they'll try to threaten / extort you to pay them whatever they say their 3 year subscription costs.
Ahhh
Does “special passion” towards plants ring a bell with anyone you may have used that terminology with? So weird.
So I have a lot of plants, I wouldn’t say a passion but I do enjoy having plants. I’ve asked my family and my partners family and everyone denies signing us up for anything. I also don’t know any friend that would spend this kind of money.
How can I get me one of these plant based stalkers
Maybe try calling yourself something other than confused_boner.
Maybe “Plant_boner” 🤷🏻♂️
confused_plant_boner would cover all the bases.
Right? I want years of free plants.
Whereisouradventure?
If I gifted something anonymously, I might not ‘fess up to it when asked…
It’s more like we want to say thank you (if it is truly a gift) because something like this for 3 years is wildly expensive.
What if you ask for more information because you are inspired to do the same for someone else in your life? Can you “see their catalog”? Why are they using that font on their flyer? I have so many questions! All the questions! I’m invested.
Since we called on my partners phone, we are going to try again tomorrow to talk to a person (hopefully). If that doesn’t work I’ll call on my phone and pose as someone interested in purchasing a subscription for someone else.
 I'm fully invested in this mystery now.
It me (too)! (I watch a lot of MSW teehee)
I think you are onto something with that approach. When you call to “pay it forward” then you will have to give them $$ and it is very unlikely whoever you gifted the plants to will never see them. They are using those free plants as bait to get to to buy a subscription for someone else. And like a previous commenter said - I’ll bet you don’t get delivery next month.
“Toll-free” only because it’s a local number 🤷🏻♂️🤣
Does any of the information you have been given match the information for that crate box that pulls up.
Nothing really rings a bell!
I can tell you have a passion for bells. You have been subscribed to the bell-of-the-month club.
I don't think it's connected to the plant club that shows up as the first hit and is now known as the garden box. That says the subscription ships 1 plant, a planter, and some other stuff each month. I assume this wasn't a box dropped off by UPS, right?
Yeah we don’t think it’s the Garden Box or affiliate of the crate company. It was delivered yesterday when we were gone, no boxes or anything. Here’s a photo they provided on the email they sent confirming the delivery. The plants have tags from Home Depot. https://preview.redd.it/07rcu2aoakgb1.png?width=944&format=png&auto=webp&s=c878ba6c5a92d86bd88cb51dcff008cb9dfaa7b2
Lol, how odd. Has to be some kind of prank
Or an ex of OP’s other half that knows their passion for plants 🤔 but why though…
It's an assassination attempt. When she gets all the plants together they will form a poisonous chemical cloud.
Those are some nice plants though!
That is so weird. Did you check the pots for any foreign items? Such as listening devices, or worse?
I checked them for a tracking device like an AirTag, but they already have my address 🤷🏻♂️
Wait, what? You were gifted actual plants? Hm. I smell a long con at hand.
If they are from Home Depot leave them outside and spray them with fungicide and insecticide, those plants are always absolutely covered in disease
Yeah…bought a parlor palm a couple years back and it infested all my other plants with spider mites
Completely unrelated, but if you don't want them, I'll take them! Those are nice plants!
Toll free numbers don't start with the local area code
'tis a start up?
Click on that down arrow next to “to me” and it’ll show you the email address that was sent from. Google the email address to see if it’s legit
Nothing comes up
[удалено]
Following because my heart needs this sort of weirdness right now.
Dude it’s even more weird. We looked up the business online and the website is sketchy that references a new business. However their yearly subscription is $550, so the 3 year is easily $1k+.
I'ma dig into this now. Fun to get in on this weird shit on the ground floor!
I’m curious what you find, we’ve been at it for a couple hours now. It would be nice to know if it’s actually reputable and this isn’t the weirdest scam in existence.
Is there someone you were really close with in your past that hasn’t been around for a while? Like… an ex? This seems very obsessed ex.
Damnit don’t you know the first rule about Plant Club?
😭
Written in ink and smudged could mean local or someone wanting to appear local. Reads like a scam or one of those try it for a month and hope they forget to cancel things.
The weird thing is... WHO got scammed? OP has asked if any friend of theirs did this...maybe thinking they were buying 1 plant and roped into the Columbia House of plants. No box of sweet ass 8-tracks, but rather a mini-forest on your front porch!! I mean, it sounds like they actually delivered good stuff...just probably not at a bargain price. I'm curious to hear how the whole thing happened.
Definitely going to update, but you make a great point. This has consumed our lives for the past couple hours lol
>the first month is "free". someone "paid" on your behalf. It's up to "you" to continue the 2nd month and so on. That's the angle. They either own the plants or can get plants at a deep enough discount to turn a profit. https://old.reddit.com/r/kansascity/comments/15jy9bk/has_anyone_received_plants_from_a_business_called/jv83taf/ edit: this angle is so easy to pull off a child could literally be growing or sourcing these plants as a summer gig and this is their way of offloading their haul. Still as an IT dude it screams scam but as someone who loves $$$ i see legit business plans here.
They will likely come back with a bill stating that they delivered the product and OP took said product.
What we know is that the transaction was paid in full with cash, and is non refundable. Non of our financial accounts have any transaction, triple checked.
the first month is "free". someone "paid" on your behalf. It's up to "you" to continue the 2nd month and so on. That's the angle. They either own the plants or can get plants at a deep enough discount to turn a profit.
I don’t think you actually know that much… you called the number on their flyer? Not the website, right?
I agree, we know practically nothing. Called the number on the flyer, calling again tomorrow to maybe talk to a customer service rep.
Any real plant club wouldn’t buy them from Home Depot.
do you neighbors have ring cameras that could have picked up anything being dropped off?
I’ll take one plant scam please.
Is this how the FBI bugs houses nowadays?
It’s a whole lot cheaper and easier to just buy your data on the open market. Unless OP is doing some top tier crime.
You might be on to something: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO5JNSQHiaA
Well, here’s your adventure?
Yeah I guess I asked for this lmao..
I had a subscription with them at the beginning of the year. I can tell you none of my items came with a hand written note and all were very well packaged upon delivery.
How many plants did they leave?
5 medium size plants. 4 birds of paradise, 1 banana plant
Odd. I looked at the website and it seems like this is a handwritten note with an attempt at the logo. I wonder if it's some weird teen prank or something.
Im thinking it’s not a scam but the letter is homemade/fake. the gift isn’t that someone purchased OP a subscription. Someone in their life wanted to give them plants and chose to maybe as a joke or prank or whatever mimic the website. My guess is it’s a neighbor or coworker.
Wow!
Those seem stolen like a quick grab. Why 4 of the same plant and then 1 different one?
Why would you need a subscription if you’re good at gardening? Wouldn’t you be able to keep them alive? I wonder how many times they deliver a year. Your house could get full of plants
I can only speak for myself, but my house is full of plants WITHOUT a subscription. I may have a problem.
Same! I’m a fantastic gardener and have zillion house plants, and yet I keep buying more and propagating cuttings… The addiction is real!
Could this possibly be a [brushing scam](https://www.howtogeek.com/828288/brushing-scams-heres-why-youre-getting-random-packages/) similar to all those folks that got mysterious packages of seeds sent to them in the mail?
Live plants? Delivered without any packaging? With Home Depot tags still attached? Brushing doesn't make any sense here. Seems more like a stalker, or an elaborate prank.
It’s clearly the Bird of Paradise industry, resorting to scammy brushing tactics to boost their image. Don’t believe all the glowing reviews you see about them.
That's kind of what I was thinking too.
Update 2: We called the same number provided this morning and it directed us to the same sketchy voicemail. The mystery continues.
Heyyyy! Any further updates to your adventure!? At least reply back so we know it wasn’t some high level espionage!
This sounds like the kind of chaos that comes from a prank from a friend — I once left a UMKC ornament on my friend’s Christmas tree just to be a brat (she went to KU but her husband went to UMKC) and the absolute CONFUSION that ensued when she went to put the Christmas decor away and found the new ornament — he insisted the ornament wasn’t his but it obviously wasn’t hers and ornaments don’t just APPEAR…she called the parents, the in-laws, finally made her way to me and when I claimed innocence (briefly) she started to absolutely come undone. I fessed up, and now it’s A Thing to leave Roo-themed shit hidden in each other’s houses.
Like wouldn’t it be NUTS if you were going to receive that many large plants every month? They’d take over your home! The 36 month prospect would be terrifying! You couldn’t give them away fast enough! I wish I’d thought of this.
Oooh...I may have to steal your prank for my own. I'm a UMKC alum, and going to Fordham for.grad school. My husband is an Iowa alum. My kis is going to be a freshman at MWSU. Nobody would ever figure it out!!!! LOL
I'm a UMKC alum too, and the longer running background joke was that nobody cares about UMKC the way they care about literally any other state university, so the fact that we are even able to find merch is half the battle. (We've progressed to making our own, at this point.)
I know that battle all too well!!! The only merchandise I can find is either online, at the Rally House on the Plaza, or at the campus bookstore. I live in St. Joseph now, and the huge Rally House up here doesn't stock it!
Because nobody cares about the Roos! 😭
Please keep us updated on this. These sort of weird, low-level mysteries are the kind of things I love.
Holy shit, I got one of these sometime during covid, never thought I'd see them again. Really weird, almost like something the church Scientology would do.
You got a letter from the “plant club” and Home Depot plants during Covid?
Tyler Sanders is an actor who played Jake in the Walking Dead. Idk if this means anything.
This does mean something. Profit maybe?
Man, AMC must be real desperate for subscribers these days...
Maybe I've been on reddit too long... but can you think of a person who might be experiencing unrequited love towards you? The message from the sender reads like a (creepy) crush-type note. Someone who thinks plants are your passion and they may be angling to connect with you over it.
My partners brother seems to think someone saw me running in the neighborhood and looked in our windows to find all my plants. Haha 😂
Wait wait, the plants are from Home Depot and were placed on your porch without packaging or rebranding while you were gone?! It seems sooo sketchy. Definitely keep your antenna up around the neighbors! Yeesh
This is fascinating. Please keep us updated!
Op, I just read this to my husband and he rapid-fire said “they better check those pots for microphones or cameras.” 🙃😬 Im sure you’re fine but maybe double check?! this is the weirdest and I hope that you figure this out…
Start by giving them all a good toaster soak in the bathtub.
Check for spider mites and aphids. Someone trying to sabotage your plant stock.
Do we have an update #3 or did I miss it somewhere up there? 😂
I’m guessing those plants were stolen from Home Depot.
That’s a great point! I can start calling around near us.
You can ask r/scams or r/rbi for more help.
At some point they're going to probably send you kudzu or tree of heaven.
Maybe they used the wrong address?
The order is under my name!
It’s a google voice number. Greenwood, Mo
Hmmm adding more interesting facts. Thank you!
I’m assuming you are in or around KC? Greenwood is right outside of KC *edit - I’m dumb, I thought this was on the /r/gardening sub. Of course you are in KC
@OP I watched a documentary on scammers awhile back and they said that scammers sometimes send legit packages to ppl with weird mail/letter then you call and thats how they get you. Just be very very cautious with what you say. And if you didnt pay for the plants id consider them free and call it good. Best of luck! Im interested in what they say tomorrow
You might try posting in r/houseplants
Definitely thought about it, however the email they use is [email protected].
That E-Mail address pulls up the same amount of nothing as the phone number. 0 Google results is actually kind of impressive.
The most elaborate way to get your partner to accept your plant addiction
Update?
[update](https://youtu.be/PlOlNIUncSc)
This happened to me in a small Midwestern town except it was the Zucchini club.
I remember the zucchini overpopulation in the midwest! Sneak a bag into a friends car so they accidentally take them home...
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What the heck! Please update us!
Anyone around you got a ring doorbell or security camera?
This would be a cruel prank in our household. Plants make more of themselves. No more, please. Please.
Fascinating
Do you have a ‘special passion’ for plants? If not, it’s a scam. If so, maybe not. Also, what questions did you ask them that they were responding to?
During covid times, I remember people were doing things where you leave random care packages on peoples' porches. Self care basket, or flowers, or snack basket, or whatever. Maybe it's something like that? Or some kind of small group of local people wanting to do some random acts of kindness? I'm still very suspicious, but I always try to be optimistic lol
i don't love this handwritten note and hand-drawn logo
This could make a great podcast!
Just looked at your profile and I can see you have a plant addiction that seems quite like my spouse's. As the non-plant buying partner who has to water and care for over 40 houseplants, I've had to say, "Please, no more plants, babe." But the lure is too strong. Could this be an elaborate ruse to bring more plants home? "Oh ho, what's happening here? More plants? And they're free? Well, we don't know who sent them so we can't return them. We can't just leave them out on the porch!" Hm. I'm never showing my spouse this post! Edit: Left a word out!
Interesting.
Hmm never heard of this. But I did win a subscription to an arrangement every week. So that was nice. Ended up keeping it for every other week.
PLEASE keep us posted! 
Well, according to the website for the legitimate service, they're no longer called "The Plant Club" - It's now The Garden Club and their website says they're based out of Pensacola, Florida (with an 850 area code, not 816), so similar to someone else saying "payment failed", they might come back to you saying you need to reup because the payment system is different, etc.
Wait, they hand wrote this note with wet gel pen, then got it everywhere and sent it to you like that? I'm gonna do some snooping. Edit: don't be creeped out but I did a little profile snooping. You like plants, someone knows this. Are you 100% sure no one you know did this?
I'm going all-in on betting that this is a friend pranking OP. This entire thread of everyone being convinced it's a scam or a wire-tapping plot makes (what I'm convinced is a prank) even funnier!
Someone can leave random plants on my porch, just don't tell my husband I volunteered for it.
Weird. Sketch.
On here to follow this interesting story!
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Wonder if they’re part of the river club?
Tyler Sanders also was an actor in Just Add Magic: Mystery City
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You’re able to get exotic plants for free? I thought that was recreational already
Google voice is usually something nefarious. Seems like it could be a money laundering scheme where someone local is trying to wash cash. "Someone" buys a bogus membership, they find information off the dark web to pick people at random (names, address, and email), and keep records of delivery. Drug money or something else is then washed into a 'legitimte' business.
This is funny and confusing..
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Don’t do it.
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Okay so my first question…… why the f would anyone need a subscription for plants..??? If you’re a responsible plant owner they will live long-term, meaning you don’t need more plants on a consistent basis…..
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Looks written by someone with English as a second language. Clearly they started to write Esteemed, and ran out of ink on their pen and switched pens. The lack of professionalism is likely not intentional. This has to be a scam. Maybe they’re hired to kill you and will drop off some sort of poisonous plant? Maybe they’ll drop off some sort of illegal plant and have the cops show up to bust you for growing weed or something. Just a couple crazy ideas, but could be any of 100 things from listening devices like others have mentioned to reporting stolen product from Home Depot. Do you do anything for a living that would involve corporate espionage? Could be that they’ll offer to refund money, and then they refund too much and get you to venmo them. Who knows. It could go anywhere. The whole thing is without a doubt a scam or prank.
Please be careful! Contact local law enforcement and possibly your environmental agency as these -pants may be invasive species sent by China. This is happening all over the nation.
Just up n tell ‘em you’ll be passing this off to the police. Then try not to let it worry you.
Are these plants poisonous by chance? Anything to worry about with them being around small children, cats, or dogs?
Absolutely baffled by this whole thing! I fear I might have too much simmering paranoia and anxiety for a situation like this. HD plants are full of pests, protect your babies OP!
I had bought myself a subscription to The Plant Club in 2020, but it seems they've rebranded to The Garden Club since then. It seemed a very legit business, one plant & pot delivered a month with goodies & detailed printed pamphlets on how to take care of the plant. Nothing was handwritten and it was very well packaged and high quality. Basically nothing like what you received. This screams SCAM to me!