• I'm very happy receiving mail with fruitsticker-donations. You can find my surface-mail address here: Impresum & kontakt . Please let me known, whether I may list you on my Sponsors-page.
  
• If you are a fruit-dealer, I am willing to create a special page with foto(s) and details (address, opening hours, etc.) about your business. Please have a look at this sample-page:
• This website offers a variety of languages to select. I am only capable of German and English language.
  For that reason, I permanently look for help with the translation of some text (like this FAQ-page) into the other languages. If you feel willing and capable to do such a task, please contact me for further details via email: obstaufkleber at arcor.de
• In case you have relatives and/or friends outside of Germany, it would be a nice idea to ask them to collect fruitstickers and mail them once or twice per year via yourself or directly to me.
• In the category "Unknown" you will find all stickers from unknown kinds of fruit or vegetable. When you can tell the kind of fruit or vegetable of a specific sticker by looking at it, please send me an email with that information or add it as comment to that sticker.
• If you run your own website, you may place a link to Fruitsticker.de on it using the example from the bottom of my Trade Partners-Seite.

"xyz at provider.de" => "xyz@provider.de"
 

• Only Registered users may vote for each sticker only once by rating it from 1 (Flop) to 5 (Top) points.
• On the Statistics-Page you can see - among other information - the most voted and best rated sticker.

• Red: This is a unicate sticker not available for trading.
• Green: This is a duplicate sticker available for trading without any restrictions.
• Blue: This is a duplicate sticker available for trading only with some restrictions. Restrictions may be looked up at the stickers detail page. Just click at the sticker thumbnail. If you can offer a suitable label, I'll be happy to trade.
• Turquoise: This is an Oldie duplicate sticker available for trading only at a rate of 1:5 or for another Oldie sticker.

• Common languages for sticker comments and guestbook entries are English or German .
• Entries should be related to the topic of this website and may not contain or refer illegal contents under any circumstances.
• Fruitsticker.de reserves the unrestricted right to remove any entry violating these rules from the website without further notice.

• The search function will find only strings with a length of three or more characters.
• An apostrophe (') may not be part of a search term. So if you want to find all melissa's labels, just search for melissas (without apostrophe).
• German special characters ä,ö,ü,Ä,Ö,Ü,ß may not be part of a search term. They need to be replaced by ae,oe,ue,Ae,Oe,Ue,ss when entering a search term.
  So if you want to find all labels related to the search term süß, just search for suess.
• If you don't know which database field contains the search term, leave the radio-button All fields active.
• When searching for stickers with a specific color you will have to use german search terms:
  rot, gruen, blau, gelb, braun, schwarz, weiss, rosa, violett, orange, weinrot, gold, oliv, silber, tuerkis, grau, beige
  Please keep in mind that each color covers the range from light to dark!
• When searching for stickers with a specific shape you will have to use german search terms:
  Kreis , Quadrat , Dreieck , Oval-H , Oval-V , Rechteck-H , Rechteck-V , Raute-H , Raute-V ,
  Blatt , Irregulaer (covering all shapes previously not mentioned) ... ... ...
  Please keep in mind that each basic shape covers a wide variety of deviations!
• When searching for stickers made of a certain material you may use one of the following search terms:
  Papier (Stickers made from paper), Folie (Stickers made from plastic foil), Pappe (Stickers made from cardboard), Gewebe (Stickers made from textile)
• When searching for stickers with certain Specials you may use one of the following search terms:
  Oldie (Stickers prior to 1980), URL (Stickers containing an URL), Email (Stickers containing an Email address), Box (Stickers from wrapping), Barcode (Stickers with EAN-/Barcode), Minibuch (Stickers designed as booklet), Safety-Cuts (Stickers with safety-cuts) Anhaenger (Non-adhesive otherwise attachted cardboard)

• Enter Duplikat into the text-entry box at the pagehead.
• You may enter additional searchwords (i. e. and Chiquita) separated by SPACE characters to further limit the search.
• Click the Search button.
• All matching duplicates will be displayed.

• Click the "Advanced search" link at the pagehead to skip to the Search page
• Enter Duplikat into the "Search by Keyword" search-text entry-box.
• Choose the desired kind of fruit (i. e. Kiwifruit) from the Category drop-down list.
• You may enter additional keywords (i. e. Zespri) separated by SPACE characters to further limit the search.
• Select AND or OR as "search term" to link all entered keywords.
• If you did not enter additional keywords activate the "Only Trade-Info"-radio-button to speed-up the search.
• Click the Search button.
• All matching Kiwifruit duplicates will be displayed.

• Incoming trade-requests will be answered in sequence of arrival (first in - first out) as soon as possible. Therefore it may happen that a specific duplicate is no longer available because someone requested it with an email which arrived prior to your trade-request.
• It may occur that email trade-requests are not answered instantly because I don't look at incoming emails every day. Beside of that, I may occasionally get sick, beeing on a vacation or a business trip. Usually you can expect an answer within one week. If there is no answer after one week, you should re-email your trade-request.
• You should use the build-in email trade-request function of the lightbox containing a text entry field for comments on each sticker to indicate the sequence of the stickers you would like to trade (starting with 1 = ämost wanted“). Please use the related radio-button to indicate whether or not you would like a scan of the duplicates you selected for trade in order to check their quality prior to mailing them.
• If you run your own website showing your duplicates, please put the URL in the related field in the head of the email trade-request form.
• If you don't run your own website, you will have to send me an additional email via your usual email-provider with an appending .ZIP-file containg scans (JPG or GIF) of all your available duplicates.
• I will select from your duplicates as many as you selected from mine. If I select less duplicates from yours than you selected from mine, I will send you an equal amount of duplicates of your choice in your declared sequence of interest. If requested, I will email you a scan of all duplicates you selected prior to mailing them.
• If it is our first trade and it was started by your trade-request, I ask you to mail your duplicates first. Instantly after receiving your duplicates I will mail the duplicates you selected. If our trade was started by me, I will mail my duplicates first, of course. On future trades I will mail my duplicates simultaneously with yours.

• To use the Lightbox buttons of the stickers, JavaScript needs to be enabled in your browers settings !!!


• Login with your userid and password via the Registered users box on the left side of the page.
• Use the links Search, Advanced search or All duplicates at the pagehead to find duplicates.
• Click the Lightbox button at all duplicates you are interested to trade.
• Skip to the Lightbox page by clicking the Lightbox link in the Registered users box on the left side of the page.
• At the Lightbox page all previously selected duplicates will be displayed.
• By clicking the Lightbox button again you may deselect any of the displayed duplicates from within the Lightbox page.
• You may even leave the Lightbox page to search for and select additional duplicates without loosing the previously selected duplicates on return to the Lightbox page.
• After finally selecting all duplicates you want for trade, please click the Email Trade Request link.
• In the email form all necessary pagehead fields are already filled in. You may fill in the optional fields and add an individual comment for each duplicate.
• By clicking the Submit button at the end of the email form, your trade request will be sent towards Fruitsticker.de.
• If the email form consists of multiple pages, you will have to send each page separately by clicking the Submit button.
• Please don't modify or delete the contents of the lightbox after submitting all pages of your trade request unless I tell you it's ok to do so! This is because I need those contents to prepare your letter with the requested stickers.
• A copy of the trade request(s) will be sent to the email address, with which you became a registered user.
• Incoming trade requests will be answered in sequence of arrival (first in - first out) as soon as possible.