Baltazaar2010 / Albert Bazaar took payment and never shipped animals

Well, here we go with yet another bad guy thread.
I hope this helps others avoid this clown.

I contacted Albert in regards to this ad:
http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/foru...ght=loggerhead
He pm'd me asking me to call him, which I did. After a very long conversation I agreed to purchase 8 loggerheads. The deal was for 2.4 - 4" loggerheads represented in the photo in the listing and 2 extra males he calls salt and pepper to pair up some females.

They were supposed to ship out Wednesday December 13th.
There was delay after delay and they never shipped.
First it was food poisoning
then his pipes supposedly froze
then when he went to pack the box he was out of females that he would have to get breeders out of his pools.
When that was too much trouble to get animals out of his pools - he would go collect more (claims he has a permit to collect in Georgia).
It has been one thing after another.

January 4th he claims to have left to go collecting. He did call and tell me he didn't find any or whatever for a week.

On January 11th he says he only found a few so far. What really concerned me during our conversation was when he said he may have to take the loggerheads to Florida while he went collecting there. He even mentioned getting mangrove terrapins and asked what I would pay for them.
At that point I requested a full refund.
He agreed to refund to my money though I have not received anything from him.
I followed up with an email requesting the refund (that he agreed to) and also confirmed I do not want any animals from him.

I suspect there are others here in the same boat, seems like he needed money for Christmas shopping so he posted the ad, collected the money and never shipped me anything.

I hope this helps others, and really hope PP resolves this one quickly.
I can post emails of some of the communications (some was done by phone).