TBadSeed

I believe I have also been scammed by James, I think i bought that guys used cage that started this thread and was built be James RIRE for a very good deal, if this is the same guy then yes he was provided caging and heat for his Tegu while James finished building and delivered his enclosure, I know this because James let him keep MY ENCLOSURE that i had already paid James for until he delivered the new one to Eric, which Eric stripped of the light fixtures and radiant heat emitter before it went back on the truck to RIRE.

James was going to reseal it for me and do some other work, I paid him to put a removable center divider in it so my baby Tegu that is due to be here 8/15/17 and my year old Tegu are not in contact, besides the baby needs to stay in a 40 gal breeder tank while getting established. The breeder cage was going to go on one side and my year old boy on the other until my baby was safe with him. The enclosure would provide heat basking heat lamp and UVB to the breeder tank while it is placed in the sectioned off part of the enclosure.

We also agreed on a price for sliding doors and a 12" stand for the enclosure, replacing the radiant heat emitter and the light fixtures Eric stole, some other little stuff I cant remember, I paid him in four payments.
I live in California. The enclosure was purchased on 3/20/2017 and shipped on or about the date of the last payment 5/20/17.

Several attempts to deliver my enclosure to me were claimed, by the shipper. I was here for each and every one, they never came. Excuses were they couldn't fit the truck down my street and there was construction going on. We are in a high fire area, remember the Oakland hills firestorm in 1991, we weren't burned but we were evacuated and since then every day the Oakland fire dept drives its ladder truck down our street to remind people to not block the street, they will stop and have cars towed if they are blocking the street so there is no damn way this delivery truck couldn't get down my street and I took each day off work each day delivery was promised and hovered by the front windows waiting for something that could deliver my enclosure to show up, it never did.

Now i'm permanently out the money i lost by taking off work to be here for delivery that never happened and so far i'm out the money for the enclosure. I've commissioned another builder to build me an enclosure, its going to be twice as expensive and almost exactly the same, not as tall, no radiant heat emitters no stand and not ready in time let alone delivered in time.
James said he refunded me all of my money back to my credit card, well the bank hasn't received any of it.

July 5, 2017 James first promised to refund me, never got around to it. Same thing everyday after that until he told me he did refund me via email, he blocked me on his phone so July 7 was the last text communication I had with him that way, then he said to dispute the charges if I hadn't received my refund, I did, that was July 18, 2017 . James said he wasn't going to fight my dispute, but Friday I received a letter stating that, that is exactly what he did. I don't want to think the worst of people, James really seemed like a good guy or i'm just a big giant sucker to be stomped on.

I just want my refund, I'm not asking for lost wages for all these make believe delivery attempts where I had to take off of work to receive the enclosure. I still want to believe James isn't scamming me but everybody else that reads the emails and texts between us says i'm a sucker.

I hadn't heard from James at all since July 20, 2017 when he last emailed me and said "So at this point there is nothing else I can do for this situation".
Just return my funds, send the money paypal or instant transfer and Ill stop the dispute. Square never returned any of my money as was claimed.