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Inquiry Has anybody had any experience buying from Contemporary485?

vampyrebyte said:
I'm also currently trying to deal with them.
I paid for animals and they were supposed to be shipped on Wednesday evening.
They had a family issue come up that night and weren't able to ship.
They've responded a couple of times since then but nowhere near the amount they did when they were trying to sell me these animals and many more. Kept on trying to get me to buy all these others that i wasn't interested in one being the psychedelic rock geckos.
Something seems fishy. I don't like coincidences.
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Ben,
This is likened to, "Birds Of A Feather" in this case the birds I'm speaking of, is frogman & schaumda, friends of the those you're dealing with.

It's my opinion, be extremely careful, & cautious when dealing with contemporary485.

Best of Luck to you, with this deal!

Lynn Peterson
Big Time Reptiles
 
Ben, I hope you get your animals. Please update if you do.


However, the messages they sent kind of creep me out. Stuff like this quote would make me stay away:

Ill wait for a collector who wants what he/she wants and price/cost is of no concern to get it.

We gave you a stellar deal. Amazing. You should've jumped on that like white on rice love.

We quoted you at superb pricing and i am sort of troubled anytime an individual comes to us for anything and we can not meet a customers specific desires or requests. We are the least cheap people you'll probably ever meet.

In an effort to give you the stage, I am all ears. Remember it is the squeaky wheel that gets the grease after all.

Our aim is never "a sale", those are regular occurrences regardless. Our inventory is molten fire ... Hotness, sells itself.

Our aim here is more refined in that when someone comes to us with a request, that we do everything within our abilities and also within reason, to ensure that that customer, you in this case, leaves us glad they stopped by, and certainly not empty handed if they came with specific request.

The other thing to understand too is that we are done giving sales. We hooked everybody up for weeks straight, 8 psycho pairs radically reduced. Everyone one got extremely unnecessarily reduced pricing on any and everything we sold. Whoever didn't purchase these last 2 weeks either royally goofed, or perhaps money was just tight and off a few bucs.

Point is we hooked it up so lovely with so much love here on fauna these past 30 days. We blessed that gecko classifieds section and every customer with so much class and style and unnecessary discounts they should make Brian and I a plaque.
 
The unwarranted and hyperbolic egotistical display is extremely off-putting to me. Same for stuff like "love" and "toddy" in terms of levels of professionalism. Also, the zealous attempt to drive sales home hard right out of the gate defies the claim that things are selling themselves here. If something sells itself, there is no need for the application of large discounts except perhaps for a large combined order. There would also be zero need to be be pushy since there would be a line of customers waiting for that which is in an extreme state of heightened demand. Just how I see it.
 
vampyrebyte said:
I'm also currently trying to deal with them.
I paid for animals and they were supposed to be shipped on Wednesday evening.
They had a family issue come up that night and weren't able to ship.
They've responded a couple of times since then but nowhere near the amount they did when they were trying to sell me these animals and many more. Kept on trying to get me to buy all these others that i wasn't interested in one being the psychedelic rock geckos.
Something seems fishy. I don't like coincidences.
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Ben,
Any updates on your order?

Any correspondence from them what so ever?

This is looking, and sounding, extremely familiar.:yesnod:

Again, hope this works out for you!

GOOD LUCK!:thumbsup:

Lynn Peterson
Big Time Reptiles
 
Dont Trust

I have been doing business with them since they put out that ad on Black Friday, I have not received any animals, with many excuses and problems that occurred while getting the animals and for about 2 weeks their phone has been off and I have gotten no reply from any of my email messages. I have just filed a complaint against their paypal account as I have yet to receive any animals, or even a response back from them. Also their paypal account is under a different name - Virginia Cabral.
 
I did receive the animals I bought from them. Quite a while back. They also included a free baby strophurus wellingtonae.
I had a lot of correspondence back and forth with them and threatened to just have a refund, but would rather have the animals.
They did send though. I'll see if I can dig up some correspondence.
 
Well Let me know what you can find out, they seem like nice people and I wouldn't want to bash anybody if they are telling the truth, however, I made payments back on November 28, 2015 and have not received any animals, and their phone has been off for around 2 weeks now, and I have sent several emails with no reply. And I spent a lot of money on them. So seeing this thread has me a little ticked off.

thanks,
Dan
 
My apologies

Ok well I must apologize about my previous thread, this thread got me a little angry at first as I am doing business with Brian which caused me to act first instead of finding out the truth, Brian has contacted me and had a bit of a rough patch these couple weeks, however, as far as anybody else's issues from what I understand Brian has gone out of his way on several occasions, actually giving away free animals worth thousands to make up for any mistake. So as far as I can tell Brian and Kerry are in my good book.

Daniel Martin
 
I'm glad I'm not the only one who is put off by the way they word things. Even if they were giving a killer deal I think I'd steer clear, but it doesn't even sound like they're doing that. As soon as I got a message like that I would look elsewhere.
 
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kryptic said:
Well Let me know what you can find out, they seem like nice people and I wouldn't want to bash anybody if they are telling the truth, however, I made payments back on November 28, 2015 and have not received any animals, and their phone has been off for around 2 weeks now, and I have sent several emails with no reply. And I spent a lot of money on them. So seeing this thread has me a little ticked off.

thanks,
Dan
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Dan,
Nice people DON'T do this to others.....

If it walks like a scammer, and sounds like a scammer, it's a scammer.

Call your Local Police Department, and ask to speak to a Detective from the Computer Crime Division in your area, and do the same in their area. It won't cost you anything, but a phone call, and possibly a meeting.

Again, Nice people DON'T do this to others.:thumbsup:

Best of Luck to you!

Lynn Peterson
Big Time Reptiles
 
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