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Bad Guy Jim Scharphorn - Bad Guy

Thanks Dustin.

I would have been here for justin as well but if you accuse me of something and will not believe me and keep accusing me over something so stupid and if you make threats and file a paypal complaint then I am done with you.

If I would have made a mistake on his cages I would have tried to make him happy and would have apologized.
I want return cusmores and happy customers but some people you just can not please.
I get about 1 a year and it was due.
 
DandD you get no responce, you have always attacked me from years past, get a life.

So because you sell crap and I call you out on it I am attacking you? Cause and effect there jimmy, if you don't sell crap and I won't have any reason to "attack" you. Apparently you obviously have not learned anything over the years. :dunce:

I just had legitimate questions that of course you will ignore since the answers would more than likely show you as the liar you are. No worries, you ignoring my questions will certainly bring you more business. :rolleyes:

BTW, I do have a life and for fun I out people like you for the piss poor jobs they do and try and help those who get taken advantage by the likes of you.
 
I am not going to keep posting on this thread and am just going to let you fine folks have your fun.

Apparently he likes to start everything he says with a lie because he keeps right on commenting...

I do not know if all his emails are there but I doubt it.

Then provide them if you think I missed some, I dare you, they sure won't help YOUR case!

When he contacted me he accused me of putting counter sink holes in the 2 panels, I told him I do not do that but he did not believe me, I never said no one puts counter sink holes in the panels I said WE do not do it
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Wasn't an accusation, it was a statement of fact that you just couldn't accept. But ONCE AGAIN let me clarify, I wish you would have countersunk ALL of them because your wife needs a little practice at drilling pilot holes via your own admission that she can barely hold a drill and her admission that she is the one who drilled them. You can't expect someone to put a screw straight in a crooked hole.

He did not get used panels he got new panels with out counter sink holes in them
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Nope, sure didn't.

I feel he tried to screw the screw to tight and that is why it disformed the panels, he also put the screws in crooked and that is why you see the mark on the opposite side.

And if this were the case I am the only one in 4 years to screw a screw in too tight? And your pilot holes is the path the screw follows. If the screws were not flush the caps are pointless and the cages would look like crap and wouldn't butt up against eachother. Therefore they needed to be countersunk, I have one more pic to add of the top of the directions where you say they are supposed to be countersunk. Even your directions contradict themselves if you don't send them with countersunk holes.

If me selling these cages the way I do and people having this trouble I would try and think of a way to have them go together different but this guy is the first in about 4 years to say anything like this.

I seriously wish you would make up your mind. Am I the one a year who is a "jerk" about your cages, or am I one in 1000? Oh, and also, as I said before, who cares if I am 1 in 1000, I still matter even if I only spent $20 my customer satisfaction should still matter, but I spent nearly $1000!

Josh, if not satisfied with the first cage doing this should not have put together more but he choose to keep assembling and just figured he would make me send him new parts.

I called you IMMEMDIATELY when I noticed the difference in the holes in the cages when I got to cage 2. I didn't even complete the second one (couldn't have anyways I was short screws) I stopped and tried to figure this out with you. But IMMEDIATELY upon emailing me you were rude and condescending and instead of trying to help, were too worried about the stupid holes. It wasn't even until the next day when I realized that you were completely impossible when it comes to customer service that I completed the rest of the cages (after buying a countersink bit and screws).

When that did not work he choose to file a paypal complaint and figured he could get his money back that way.

Never tried to get all my money back, just the replacement cost for the panels you refused to do anything about. Let's be clear on that. Also, of course I would try to get some sort of compensation somewhere else when you are obviously too thick headed to admit any wrongdoing and work with me on a solution. I never asked you for money back, read my emails. I even offered to PAY you for replacement panels. Even in my paypal claim I specified I would rather have the replacement panels and missing parts as opposed to a partial refund.

Josh is the first to ever complain about the pilot holes, josh accused me of something I did not do and would not believe me after many attempts to tell him I did not or my wife did not put any counter sink holes in his panels so that ended the nice guy..

Considering that was the very first issue we addressed, that means you weren't a nice guy at any point in this. And again, wasn't an accusation, was a statement of fact and I wish all the holes came that way.

Josh screwed the screws to tight and crooked.

If they are screwed in crooked it's your wife's fault and if they are too tight it's yours for not countersinking all the holes and then instructing me to screw them in flush.

I do not believe he was short so many screws and caps, he needs to look in his packaging for them, if it would have been a couple then sure I could see it but it is not a couple it is a bunch and the amount missing just makes no since.

Ya got me, I have a screw and cap collection like Dan said. And I am too dumb to look in the packaging for them. Or maybe, the logical assumption would be that you didn't put them in the box since the box was sealed tight and the first thing I did when I was short was take everything out of the boxes and looked for them.

If not for him accusing me and filing a paypal claim I would have been here to help remedy his problem. he wants to accuse me of something I did not do and file his complaint he can get his own parts he thinks he is missing, I could send him some but he would probably complain about those as well.

You said "Dude kiss my *censored* *censored* we are done." before I filed a paypal claim. And it was denied so anyways quit crying over it. And actually, after that I still tried to work things out with you and offer YOU money to send the panels, and when you asked for a number and I gave them to you, you still refused to send them. I told you from minute one I have two types of holes so I'm confused why they all weren't countersunk, wondering if they should have all come that way, and that I only had like 10 screws left and was quickly going through covers after assembling 1.5 cages and that was long before the majority your rude and belligerent emails.

SIDE NOTE:

The seller claimed in his emails when I offered him $100 to replace the 4 panels he damaged along with the panels I damaged assembling per his directions that the actual replacement cost would be $400 for 10 panels.

This makes no sense because there was a total of 24 panels, 4 heat panels, 8 sliding door pieces, 4 strip lights, and 4 vents plus labor and shipping cost that totaled $950. How on earth then does less than half the panels alone cost $400? I can tell ya folks, it doesn't. No wonder my math on the screws and covers doesn't add up for him.

In the end I even said just forget the panels, I will figure out how to live with it since I am getting no where here and the ones he damaged are bottom pieces anyways, just send me the screws and covers, but even that he couldn't manage to do.

Good luck anyone who buys from him if you have a problem. If you didn't have a problem I'm sure he was just fine to deal with, he got your money, you got your cages, and he didn't have to deal with facing the fact he is human and errs just like the rest of us.

Josh Carlson
 
Thanks Dustin.

I would have been here for justin as well but if you accuse me of something and will not believe me and keep accusing me over something so stupid and if you make threats and file a paypal complaint then I am done with you.

If I would have made a mistake on his cages I would have tried to make him happy and would have apologized.
I want return cusmores and happy customers but some people you just can not please.
I get about 1 a year and it was due.

Who is Justin?
 
Thanks Dustin.

I would have been here for justin as well but if you accuse me of something and will not believe me and keep accusing me over something so stupid and if you make threats and file a paypal complaint then I am done with you.

If I would have made a mistake on his cages I would have tried to make him happy and would have apologized.
I want return cusmores and happy customers but some people you just can not please.
I get about 1 a year and it was due.

You want return customers ......


From what I have seen here... you have lost future customers because of how this was handled. They buyer even took photos for you with the different types of holes in YOUR materials. What... did the shipping company decide to open the package and help you out with countersink areas?

Something doesn't add up.

IF they came out of the box that way... then yes... it most likely happend at your shop. You can say it didnt all you want, but if Im the customer and I see them come out of the box that way.... Im gonna call you a liar all day long because I saw how they came out of the box. And if they came out of the box that way, the logic tells me they were done on your end.
 
Is it me or do those "counter-sunk" holes look like they're not even where they should be to even connect to another panel? And the screw "bulges" look like you over tightened them. I have a big 4' cage from Jim and what he described in all your emails was how mine came..w/small pilot holes. I found I had to tighten the screws slowly and stop immediately when the head was flush w/the surface.

Aside from having a sore hand after hand-tightening all those screws my cage went together beautifully. Don't even recall if I got screw covers but wouldn't have used them even if I had. None of my panels had those odd looking holes..every one had the small pilot holes you also pictured. Can't understand why Jim would countersink just the odd hole hear-and-there..while leaving the others as mine were.. pre-drilled.

At least if he did actually countersink the holes one would assume they would line up w/the edge of the panel its to be affixed to.

Bill
 
I took a chance and bought some cb75 racks from Jim for my womas. I say took a chance because I saw that a well known breeder had them. I discussed these racks briefly with the breeder and decided to order them. I should have read between the lines of our conversation. The breeder said he likes the size of the racks but if he decided to get more, he would give someone else a try. He just didn't want to talk bad about someone's product. I received my racks in a timely manner but did not assemble them for about 6 months. The screw holes did not align properl. The shelf panels were not all the same size so when you look at the rack from the front or back, the sides are wavy. The heat tape does not stay in the routered slots because they are not straight, so I had to tape the heck out of it to keep it in place, which still doesn't help much. When I pull or push the tubs in and out, it grabs the heat tape and makes it difficult to move the tubs. I didn't contact Jim because it had been 6 months since purchase and figure it had been too long and just ate it on the deal.

Folks on the MVF forum seem to love his stuff, so I decided to give him another chance for a small chondro rack. I should have listened to myself....Same quality 4 years later. Some of the tubs are tight and some are loose. I have had a chondro breeder tell me he had the same issues with loose tubs on a $1000 rack to where babies were able to get out of their tubs.

You are not alone on this.

Art
 
I am wondering which panels the buyer countersunk.

I countersunk all of them after I bought a countersink bit so that they would all be flush. The other 6 holes on 2 panels came pre-countersunk.

Is it me or do those "counter-sunk" holes look like they're not even where they should be to even connect to another panel? And the screw "bulges" look like you over tightened them. I have a big 4' cage from Jim and what he described in all your emails was how mine came..w/small pilot holes. I found I had to tighten the screws slowly and stop immediately when the head was flush w/the surface.

Aside from having a sore hand after hand-tightening all those screws my cage went together beautifully. Don't even recall if I got screw covers but wouldn't have used them even if I had. None of my panels had those odd looking holes..every one had the small pilot holes you also pictured. Can't understand why Jim would countersink just the odd hole hear-and-there..while leaving the others as mine were.. pre-drilled.

At least if he did actually countersink the holes one would assume they would line up w/the edge of the panel its to be affixed to.

Bill

Maybe your holes were drilled by Jim not his wife who can barely hold a drill which would explain why mine bulged and yours didn't if the pilots were crooked, although I did install them straight as far as I could tell.

The pre-countersunk holes (that were that way straight out of the box I received from Jim) were in the right place for assembly, otherwise I would have even bigger issues of holes all over my cages.

I didn't have 1 problem with any of the pre-countersunk holes that he made or that I drilled once I got my bit, they all went smoothly with no bulging.

Also, he never once said to hand screw them although I did not over-tighten them, I made them flush and as directed and stopped.

The countersunk holes are not the problem, the pilot holes obviously drilled crooked that caused bulging, missing parts, and 4 panels with matching damage he sent (as shown in photo) are.

Thanks,
Josh Carlson
 
Thanks Art for sharing! Sorry about your experience too... :(

You wouldn't have gotten anywhere filing a complaint with him anyways, you are lucky to not have to deal with him in that way, laughing at you and calling you names and insulting you. It is unfortunate we spent this much money for what we got in return. :angry:

Thanks,
Josh Carlson
 
As promised, pics of instructions where he never said to hand screw and says they should be flush and countersunk.
 

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re the missing parts:
I could send him some but he would probably complain about those as well.
How about going ahead and try that? That'd help salvage this situation.
Yeah I saw that too, where Jim says 4 panels = $400. 4 panels are almost half of the materials on this $950 ttl order (???) He is going to lose more than the value of those panels in future sales because of how Jim handled this challenging test of his service.
If me selling these cages the way I do and people having this trouble I would try and think of a way to have them go together different but this guy is the first in about 4 years to say anything like this.
to me this implies- "This is the way I sell my cages. Nobody in about 4 years said anything so I figured those customers didn't care about the small screwups."
 
I just love the people who come on here and say mine came in without this problem or that problem and it assembled without a hitch while the OP clearly pictured items in which he has issue with that can not be disputed. I doubt the OP counter sank a few and then took pics and said they came that way. Nor do I think the OP put the screws between two pieces and caused the dents and again took pics just to blame jim. I guess it is completely possible that the OP has all the needed screws and caps but just wants a few more so he lied about not having enough just to make jim look bad. :rolleyes:
 
I guess it is completely possible that the OP has all the needed screws and caps but just wants a few more so he lied about not having enough just to make jim look bad.

:yesnod: Haha must be right! ;) No wait! --- the delivery guy took them like Jim said because he also has a screw and cap collection along with getting his kicks off of countersinking holes for people! :rofl:
 
Posting a follow up,
I did not read any of the new posts and I am not going to, I have lost enough sleep over this.

I contacted everyone else that I shipped cages to that day and everyone else had the correct amount of screws.
Can we make a mistake and short some screws sure it happens I am not perfect but to be short as many as he claims is very very doubtful just seems funny everyone else got the correct amount and got panels with no counter sunk holes

Also has Josh mentioned how this all started ?

He called here and spoke to my wife on the phone and told her what was going on and about the 2 panels that had the counter holes and she said I do not know what your talking about your going to have to talk to Jim, well my wife puts the pilot holes in the panels, my wife does not know what a counter sink bit is and no I did not just give her one and just tell her drill the hole like this.
We flat out did not send him panels with counter sunk holes in them so how they got there is on Josh, he is just pulling the wool over your eyes.

Also with the distorted plastic my wife told him your probably screwing it down to tight and or crooked, he said I am a dang trim carpenter I know what I am doing well maybe that is the problem, your over qualified for cage assembly because the pics he posted here showing the distorted plastic clearly shows the screws were cranked down to tight.
He never sent me those pics in our emails he was to focused on accusing me of the counter sunk holes.

I called my wife on my way home that day and she was already upset over the phone conversation with josh so I had this to look forward to when I got home.

I do not feel I did anything wrong and if josh would have been right I would have made a attempted to make it right but he is wrong and unfortunately the problem got out of hand and I ended the the deal.
I do not feel sorry for what I did and if it ever happens again it just might turn out the same way.
I am not going to kiss anyone's behind just to keep a bad customer from coming here if I feel I am in the right.

You may post away and ask questions but I can flat out tell you I am not going to read it.

So long story short.
Josh screwed panels to tight and distorted the plastic
Josh tried to get free cages
Josh posted me as the bad guy for his wrong doing.
The next guy that continually blames me for something I did not do will get the same treatment.
You want good customer service I try to provide that but some people you can not please without paying them.
 
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