I did a deal with Rainforesst for 5 adult female BP's, over 1200 grams for $600 shipped on Oct. 30. I received the animals on Nov. 1, and to my surprise, they were sickly, thin imports
covered in ticks. (Just for the record, the imports part of it is not the issue, even though Mike tried to make it that way). I immediately(on the advise of a lawyer, who is a friend of mine) filed a dispute with paypal and emailed Mike, who sent me an angry email about how i didn't do things the right way, and how he's sent over 50 of these animals out without a problem, and asked me to call him. I did, and after a little bickering back and forth, i told him that the bottom line was that i was unhappy with the animals. he told me that they were exactly as described, which "technically" they were all over 1200 grams, but should have been more like 1600-1700 grams, 2 with visible spines they were so thin. i asked for a refund, but Mike said he had already spent the money. we ended up coming to an agreement that i close the dispute with paypal(a HUGE MISTAKE)and hold the animals until he came up with the money, which he told me would take a week at the most(putting the date at 11/8) and then i would ship back the animals. he actually said to me, "well, we will send at the same time(money from him, snakes from me) and i guess i'll have to hope i get back what i sent", like i was going to screw HIM!! at this time, i isolated the tick infested animals together and went about my business. the next day, i was at work, and got a phone call from one of my employees saying that either the snakes were lesbians, or they weren't all females. the "females" were breeding!!! I heard nothing for a few days from Mike, so on 11/7, i sent an email:
To:
Rainforest263@aol.com
Subject: Re: Message about
: 06 BALL PYTHONS. . . .EVERYTHING MUST GO!
From:
chfd143@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 19:11:20 +0000
Any word yet on my refund? Tomorrow is a week. I also sent you an email
letting you know that one of those animals is a male. The only reason I
found out is it is in a tank with another of the animals you sent me,
and it was trying to breed with her. Please let me know what is going on
with the money.
And almost an INSTANT reply:
From:
Rainforest263@aol.com
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 19:12:20 EST
Subject: Re: Message about
: 06 BALL PYTHONS. . . .EVERYTHING MUST GO!
To:
chfd143@yahoo.com
No word yet... I have a pending deal. I will let you know if and when it goes through. As far as the male goes that was a mistake. I have my guys probe and separate them. So there was probably a mix up. I apologize
Thanks
Mike
Rainforest Reptiles
I went through the group and probed all of them and found 2, not 1 male!! Again, no word for a few days, so on 11/10 i sent another email:
To:
Rainforest263@aol.com
Subject: Re: Message about
: 06 BALL PYTHONS. . . .EVERYTHING MUST GO!
From:
chfd143@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 18:24:09 +0000
Mike,
Its been 9 days now. You told me 7 at the most. Any word yet? If it
gets to 2 weeks I won't have a choice but to reopen the dispute. Also, I
went through and probed everyone and there are 2 males! Let me know what
is going on, I'm not happy about finding 2 out of 5 to be males.
George
This time, it took 3 days for a response, and he has the AUDACITY to sound annoyed:
From:
Rainforest263@aol.com
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 07:55:51 EST
Subject: Re: Message about
: 06 BALL PYTHONS. . . .EVERYTHING MUST GO!
To:
chfd143@yahoo.com
I told you before that I am waiting on this deal. The guys is suppose to paypal me the money so I am just waiting on that. Then you can send the snakes back to me once I have money. So I will keep in touch. As soon as something happens I will contact you..
Thanks,
Mike
So i responded immediately:
To:
Rainforest263@aol.com
Subject: Re: Message about
: 06 BALL PYTHONS. . . .EVERYTHING MUST GO!
From:
chfd143@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 12:55:57 +0000
Yes, you told me that 6 days ago, with no update since? Do you have a
time frame?
I got no reply, and haven't heard a word since. I called paypal to reopen the dispute, and found out that once a dispute is closed, it's gone. Unable to be reopened. The paypal rep told me to go through my financial institution. I called the bank, but paypal used an electronic draft from the account, not the debit card on file, so I can't even do a chargeback. My only recourse was to sign an affadavit against PAYPAL, who is not at fault AT ALL in this, thereby ruining my relationship with them if i get ANY money back at all, and Mike gets off scott free. Like I told Mike, all i want is a refund. it's just good business. He said he spent the money on something else. it has now been 16 days, and i have not had ANY proactive correspondence from
Rainforest Reptiles, only annoyed replies when I ask for a status check on my money.