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Bad Guy Jeff and Christina Wise (Wise Reptiles) Stole Money from Benefit Auctions for Maggie

Mistyck said:
I am hoping that they can come on here and explain themselves, or something. This is disheartening and sad to see. I hate to hear that something like this happened and to a family (or two) that is grieving as well. SIGH. :(
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i seriously doubt that will happen, however i'm willing to bet they'll be reading this really soon if they aren't right now... as a guest.
 
SierraMarie said:
I completely agree Willow.

I have this sinking feeling that this was no accident. It is what they planned on doing the entire time. They scammed all of us in one way or another. But what is worse, they are making Maggie's family and Rick's family relive their darkest hour.

That is the lowest of low and not excusable. The only way the money is going to get to the correct place is for us to do something about it and make the book is thrown at them.
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Now I do disagree here Reagan... I do not think that, in the begining, this was their intent. I DO believe that seeing how much money and donations were coming in made them cave into their lust for wanting some of the animals being auctioned off. I am sure they thought they could get away with it.
 
Sometimes local news stations love to chew on these types of stories. Also, many states tax organizations have whistle blowing numbers for reporting people that are not reporting sales income. Sometimes this generates an audit.

I'm not saying anyone has not reported all their sales income, just a thought I had.
 
Brandi I will be shocked if they come in here and explain this....and no matter what they have to say....it will be worthless

I'm all for helping out in any way as well to get this situation resolved....I donated in one of the auctions as well...and have two beautiful snakes from Jasballs....who I know for a fact is steamed by this situation....I feel like a retard for trusting them and not sending the money straight to Maggie
 
Did anyone take them up on their web design service that was being PM'ed around and posted in the classifieds?

I'm guessing this was a little scam as well, but am wondering if anyone has paid for this service and if they were delivered a final product?

I think I remember some examples were given of previous work, but the only one I thought I remembered was boa republic. But looking at it really quick It seems it was done by another member here....
 
Melinda said:
Sometimes local news stations love to chew on these types of stories. Also, many states tax organizations have whistle blowing numbers for reporting people that are not reporting sales income. Sometimes this generates an audit.

I'm not saying anyone has not reported all their sales income, just a thought I had.
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I was thinking somewhat the same thing myself.Local news would probally like to read this.
 
I hear ya Willow. That's what makes it an even worse situation. It's just horrible that people who are vulnerable were used to supplement greed.
 
Mistyck said:
I am hoping that they can come on here and explain themselves, or something. This is disheartening and sad to see. I hate to hear that something like this happened and to a family (or two) that is grieving as well. SIGH. :(
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There is nothing that they can say that will even come close to rectifying this horrible situation. Anything that will come out of their mouths will be for naught. Nothing they do or say will help ease the betrayal felt by Maggie, her kids, Rick, and everyone on Fauna that believed they were contributing to help those families in need during those families darkest hours.:(
 
garweft said:
Did anyone take them up on their web design service that was being PM'ed around and posted in the classifieds?

I'm guessing this was a little scam as well, but am wondering if anyone has paid for this service and if they were delivered a final product?

I think I remember some examples were given of previous work, but the only one I thought I remembered was boa republic. But looking at it really quick It seems it was done by another member here....
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i, too, was given a link to the boa republic site. that site looks great, however she told me something of it being done by a partner or some crap. she tried relentlessly to trade me a site worth $3500 for my male pied, even after i said i didn't really need one because i'm not producing anything right now. somewhat aggravating considering in my thread where i WAS selling a small collection, that i didn't really want any trades as i planned on going to disneyworld with the money and paying some of my mother's funeral costs.
 
garweft said:
Did anyone take them up on their web design service that was being PM'ed around and posted in the classifieds?

I'm guessing this was a little scam as well, but am wondering if anyone has paid for this service and if they were delivered a final product?

I think I remember some examples were given of previous work, but the only one I thought I remembered was boa republic. But looking at it really quick It seems it was done by another member here....
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I did NOT take them up on their services but, I do have some privy info regarding their web design. Yes, Christina DID mention BoaRepublic as one of her designs and it was done by someone else on this site. There was nothing unethical regarding their design other than the fact that she misrepresented that she created that site and she would not have been able to create that site on her own. The person who designed BoaRepublic has nothing to do with their web services other than mentoring the Wises on web design.
 
dragonluver83 said:
Give her some time to find out about this thread:yesnod: im looking forward to it.
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She was told (I was on the phone with her as I was typing) that she had until I was done typing my initial post to tell me the truth or else they were going to have their second Bad Guy thread. Wanna bet she is reading right now? Any new registrations reading right now?
 
DAND said:
She was told (I was on the phone with her as I was typing) that she had until I was done typing my initial post to tell me the truth or else they were going to have their second Bad Guy thread. Wanna bet she is reading right now? Any new registrations reading right now?
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I checked on her about 5 minutes ago, she was sending someone a p.m.
 
i just went through my inbox and saw several msgs from her. one of them was about attempting a payment plan for my bigger female pied. i'm sure glad i didn't go for that one considering the source of where the money could possibly be coming from.
 
DAND said:
She was told (I was on the phone with her as I was typing) that she had until I was done typing my initial post to tell me the truth or else they were going to have their second Bad Guy thread. Wanna bet she is reading right now? Any new registrations reading right now?
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he was talking about lucille... in a response to a post i made.
 
Polasian Studio does GREAT work. When Christina offered to design a site like BR for me... I decided to talk to the source to get mine done. I didnt want a WiseGuy website.;) I really hope some people on Fauna understand me a little more about why I have been the way I have the last couple of months now.
 
bradleymoore said:
he was talking about lucille... in a response to a post i made.
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Yea Lucille is a bad :censored: chic who can lay it down right. i like it. So's Deb where is she at?
BUT i am glad to hear you were talking to her about this. SO she knows, Jeff knows. So whats the :censored: deal??? Time to get there a#$ on here an start explaining and refunding. Then may be a good idea to take a vacation for while from the forums. I dont think they have to many friends around here right now
 
StrictlyExotics said:
Yes Matt, that is correct. He was also mentoring them too to help them with design work. I just didnt want to mention his name unless he did it himself... LoL
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I didn't take her up on the offer, but the site is sweet and it was tempting. She passed it off as her own work to me, and something she was very capable of. I really wish I wouldn't have deleted that PM.

Strange thing was I don't remember someone else's name on the site when I was sent as link.
 
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