Unfortunately, Kwest, I can confirm that KingDenniz is right, that sure as hell is not a Brain Strain shape at all. It's reasonably close to a Bhut Jolokia shape, but a Brain Strain... uh, no.
Much like KingDenniz, I had a similar experience with BakersPeppers where I bought over $250 in fresh peppers, and two numbers in my address got transposed, despite confirming that I indeed sent the correct address to him prior to shipping. He complained that the mistake was mine, despite confirming he received and read the messages I sent to him with the correct address multiple times. He insisted I figure out a way to remedy the situation in a very condescending and accusatory tone, as if it was my fault the numbers got transposed. He refused to send out another, equivalent, order until shell out an extra $125 just for him to ship "at cost" for him, and then proceeded to give me a hard time when the original order returned to him filled with rotted peppers, under the impression it was the 2nd order that had returned to him first after I had already told him I received the 2nd order. Needless to say, I was an extremely unsatisfied customer. He can talk all he wants about being certified, inspected, registered, and all that with the state of Florida, and say he's a 3rd generation grower, but from reading stuff like this, and all the complaints, he's burned A LOT of bridges, too many to be effective on here. Not to mention, his "Spring Sale" only covers a tiny sliver of the items on his website, leaving the items that most people want (fresh & dehydrated pods, powders, seeds, etc.) at nearly double the price of what others are selling here on the site. Then there was the matter of him supposedly burning his Reaper plants, only to begin selling Reaper-based products shortly thereafter, leaving us wondering whether he had in fact burned them, or just yanking our collective chains...
And that's the reason he has railed against other sellers on this very site from time to time, for no other reason than because they're offering the same stuff (and often a better quality of them) at a lower price. He's acting as if it's their fault he's made some not so good business decisions, when the only thing they're guilty of is (as I just mentioned) offering the same stuff at better prices, and offering said items with vastly superior customer service. I've dealt with several other vendors, who I don't think I need to name, and in the rare instance something happened, within a day, a replacement order was shipped for free. No mess, no fuss, just like that. That's how you win customers.
Sorry for my mini rant, but I'm just tired of a bad vendor on here continually screwing customers over. I have no issue with an honest mistake from time to time, but in the case of Bakers, this has been a consistent pattern of behavior for him, and for whatever good customer service experiences he's given over the years, the bad ones far outweigh them.
