Here is a copy of an email I sent to Joshua, his reply to me, and my reply back to him prior to finally getting a phone call from him.
My email to him:
I talked to Ray. We have decided to give you until tomorrow night to straighten this up. I just want my deposit back. I don't want to have anything to do with you or your business. If you don't take care of this I will contact Kingsnake, Postmaster General, FBI internet fraud division and post copies of all emails from you to me and Ray on the BOI along with our stories of what has transpired. I used a postal money order and sent the money order through the mail which makes this mail fraud. I also know that whoever sent me emails as "Kris" this weekend was lying about you being out of town. I have emails that were sent from you to Ray over the weekend confirming that you were lying about being gone. Plus he saw you logged in on your AOL account. Just take care of this immediately so I can be done with you.
Mike
His reply to me:
----- Original Message -----
From:
PhilaExoticPets@aol.com
To:
rujonesin@kc.rr.com
Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 11:25 PM
Subject: Re: albino female
Mike,
dude calm down, no one is getting ripped off or ripping anyone off. first off i have a total of 4 albino red tails that i have received as trades from 2 people who got other animals from me, and i have 2 myself. by kingsnakes rules i cant post the same ad twice within 24 hours so i just saved myself the time and posted one ad. i have a 100% awesome track record in this business, everything from Internet to being a vendor at shows, i have never and will never rip anyone off. people give me deposits and payments all the time for animals and i always come thru as promised. and about this weekend, i was out doing a show and picking up new stock, (they have Internet hook ups at hotels dude). believe me, you and ray and anyone else who sends me deposits or payments have NOTHING to worry about. i am a business man not a con man.
you have already put a deposit on this animal. follow thru with the deal and you will be very happy. i understand that there is a lot of scum out there on the net, (i got ripped off last year for $4800). but my record speaks for itself, i sell very hard to find and high end animals for a reasonable price.
And if I recall you were supposed to have this snake paid off by next week, is it that you just don't have the rest of the money to complete this deal?
thank you
joshua myers
www.philadelphiaexoticpets.com
my reply back to him:
Joshua
Let's start off about why I am bent out of shape. I emailed you on April 19 with questions concerning this boa. No response. I called you twice and left messages. No response. I emailed you this past weekend a little aggravated and someone finally responds to me saying you will contact me Monday. You didn't. I called Monday and all I got was voice mail. As usual. I am told you won't be back in town until Monday yet Ray sent me an email asking you to contact him on Sunday. He said you replied immediately to his posting an inquiry on the BOI. If you had email capabilities or a cell phone why didn't you reply to me? Then I contact Ray to find out what kind of albino boa he got from you. Imagine our surprise when it was identical in it's description and you used the exact same photo to both of us saying it was the boa we were getting. So here 12 days have gone by since I first contacted you with questions concerning the boa, I find out someone else is getting the same snake (according to the picture) and you won't call or email me. What am I supposed to think is going on? I gave you the benefit of the doubt by giving you 24 hours to remedy the situation before I went to the BOI among other places. Not until then do I get any kind of response from you at all and you tell me to calm down. You sold both of us 99 Sharp strain albinos yet none were produced that year or the year before. There were only two people who produced them in 2000 and one of them has accounted for all his females from that year. I asked you for background info on this snake. Who produced it? who did you get it from? No response. You have absolutely no way of providing what you sold, but you want me to follow through on this deal and send you more money. And then, after all this, you want to put this back in my lap and make it my fault because you think I can't get the money to you. No apologies for taking two weeks to get back to me, or for this whole situation. Instead I am the scum who can't hold up his end of the deal. AMAZING. This is your "100% awesome track record?" How exactly are you going to "come through as promised" like "always?" There is nothing I want more than to complete this deal like we agreed upon. I need a lot more of an explanation than what I got. I need my questions answered. I need you to be accountable for your actions (or lack of) and not put this on me. If you want to fix this you need to answer my questions and then we finish with a phone conversation. I will still give you until tonight to make this right.
Mike
Mike Jones
913-677-1608