ATTENTION MUSHROOM PICKERS. think twice before selling your mushrooms here. today is 9-7-2018. The late summer and fall season is upon us. buying practices are important to pickers and this company has practices that are intentionally ripping off the pickers. I've sold to numerous buyers in Oregon and California over the past ten years and mushrooms are graded by the buyers and pay is determined by the quality of the mushroom. the majority of mushrooms have basically two grades good or bad. good is top price and bad is bought at a fraction of the price and usually are referred to as dryers. also referred to as wormy which means they have worms within the mushroom body. matsitakes and boletes have several grades of condition and chanterelles in the middle and late season sometimes have 3 grades including good, field run and dryers. lobsters and most other mushrooms have two grades. good and bad or dryers. this company seems to believe that its appropriate to change the rules and cut your profits. todays price for chanterelles' is 9.00 and lobsters are 5.00 a pound. this is a great price for this time of year. never have I seen in over ten years a buyer paying for different grades except good and bad or good or dryers this time of year or ever. this company basically took my seven pounds of chanterelles paid me nine a pound for 3.5 pounds and paid me 3.00 dollars for grade 2 which I have no idea what that is. what I assume is the price for flowers or bigger mushrooms. this isn't normal and it took over 20 dollars from my pocket. I had 11 pounds of lobsters. they divided the pondage in half and 5.5 ponds I received 5.00 a pound. for the other 5.5 they paid me 2.00 dollars a pound and claimed that they removed the worms which will still net them the same profit when sold to consumers. now lobsters are often wormy and a buyer will slice small chunks of its body to determine if it has worms. the buyer I buying tonight sliced from 10 to 30 slices from my mushrooms as if he was just looking for a worm and they claim they are removing worms. this is a scam and pickers should think twice before buying from this company. I lost another 20 dollars from this scam and its basically theft. I confronted the owner and buyer and my claims that this practice was wrong and nothing I've ever seen before was not supported by any reason or circumstance and was told I don't have to sell there if I don't want to. I wont and anyone who picks mushrooms should sell elsewhere. ATTENTION CONSUMERS AND RESTRAUNTS, ETC. you should really think twice if your buying from this company. how much do you spend for a pound of fresh market chanterelle. your spending too much for a product that would not be available if it wasn't for the pickers. fair practices should be across the board and pickers are always getting the low end treatment when its compared to profits. I get it and businesses need to make money. But the practices of this company are ripping the picker off and possibly you as well. Owen Rice you should be ashamed of yourself and know that your practices are not the norm, not fair and you should apologize and change your ridiculous buying practices because you know what your doing and your greed is disgusting. Ryland Sweet is my name. read more
