• Responding to email notices you receive.
    **************************************************
    In short, DON'T! Email notices are to ONLY alert you of a reply to your private message or your ad on this site. Replying to the email just wastes your time as it goes NOWHERE, and probably pisses off the person you thought you replied to when they think you just ignored them. So instead of complaining to me about your messages not being replied to from this site via email, please READ that email notice that plainly states what you need to do in order to reply to who you are trying to converse with.

  • IMPORTANT! PLEASE READ!! About the Google Adsense ads being displayed

    =====================
    Posted 08/15/2025
    =====================


    Yeah, I know. They are a pain in the butt. But they pay the bills to keep my server running. Just a fact of life, I am afraid.

    Want to get rid of them? Simple. Just become a Contributor level member or above and they will be gone. -> Please click HERE."

    Is that too much for me to ask of you to keep this site running? Well, sorry about that. I too wish I could get everything for free. But alas.....

    =====================
    Addendum: 01/10/2026
    =====================


    Google Adsense ad revenue for December, 2025 was just $30 over the cost of the lease for the server running this site. So, in effect, the money providing the incentive for me to continue running this site is coming SOLELY from the paid memberships and sponsorships here. Which honestly ain't much....

Bad Guy Adrian Cieslak Florence, SC from Ashley Pets

i am trying to file dispute by phone and Resolution Center online.
I'm glad you are trying, please persist until the Paypal dispute paperwork is done.If you are able to immediately escalate it to a dispute, I think that is a good idea.

When you get some rest, work on posting the screen shots of the emails your seller sent to you please. It is important for our community that we can see what he said.
We can help, but you have to do part yourself, and I know you are trying.
 
Lucille
thank you for your help and support, im just new to this.
hey, and i am a dumb dumb, kinda stupid.
im blind , i trust people to much makeing me nieve.
i dont know how to think good. but,
lucille thank you for your time and energy.
 
Becky you are not dumb. Naive, maybe, but you can learn. If you are going to be buying high dollar turtles, it is worth putting in the 'foundation' skills such as being proficient with Paypal keeping good records and knowing how to post screen shots.
A very good education can be had just be reading the BOI daily.
I look forward to seeing your screen shots of the transaction emails.
 
robert , i am not arabic.
It doesn't matter to me what you are, American, Libyan, Polish or (insert).
I do care however in trying to understand why we are getting such poor input from you.

I'll ask again...
What Paypal address did you send the money to?

i paied all of this to ashleys pet store
^^^^not an address
Example. "The paypal address I've been sending $7k to is: [email protected]"

robert you kinda hurt my feeling
Pull up your big girl pants and put on your A game. You are about to lose $7k. Solve the problem 1st and then deal with your feelings 2nd.
 
robert , i am not arabic. i do not understand what you have posted to me.
Your grammar and responses to questions are coming across like English is not your first language. There's nothing wrong with that, but it would be an explanation as to why you're having trouble comprehending and responding to the questions the other posters are asking.
 
hey bcr229 thanks,,,,seems you and robert killing me,
my memory is lost due to medications (psychotic ) due to depression
and others. i been truthfull, and honest, i have answered all your questions, to
the best of my ability. i told you the truth, some pepole like me super slow. alright
so back off.
hey its been pleasure talking with all of you, but its time for me to go away from this BOI, i have the correct information on what to do in paypal.
because all of you attacking me, so thank you all, im pure texan yes my grammer is bad ,by the way i am on dissability for my condition, so you all go have fun and attack others, im out of it , good-bye
 
hey bcr229 thanks,,,,seems you and robert killing me,
my memory is lost due to medications (psychotic ) due to depression
and others. i been truthfull, and honest, i have answered all your questions, to
the best of my ability. i told you the truth, some pepole like me super slow. alright
so back off.
hey its been pleasure talking with all of you, but its time for me to go away from this BOI, i have the correct information on what to do in paypal.
because all of you attacking me, so thank you all, im pure texan yes my grammer is bad ,by the way i am on dissability for my condition, so you all go have fun and attack others, im out of it , good-bye

I did not see anyone attacking you. I saw many confused by your responses & seemingly lack of English comprehension. Your sentence structure is decidedly foreign, as in English isn't your first language. That isn't a bad thing, but it would help for to be honest about it.

I for one am very confused, but I am glad Lucille has you on the right track. I hope you get your money back.
 
,by the way i am on dissability for my condition,
$7000 is a lot to lose,disability payments are generally fairly small.


but its time for me to go away from this BOI, i have the correct information on what to do in paypal.
I reviewed the thread again and in post #21 you posted the payment dates. Unfortunately it appears you have exceeded the 180 day deadline to initiate a Paypal dispute.
I'm hoping you post your email screenshots, the community can make suggestions but you have to do your part in providing information.

If you go away from this BOI instead of providing info, all you will have accomplished is announcing to any predators that might read this thread that you are ready, willing, and able to be their prey. They will be delighted when you answer their ads.
 
This whole situation is giving off red flags left and right, something is not right...

Occasional fan mail:
Dam3aH said:
oh hi mr robert. i have not forgotten about you. i have a few questions please.
are you a happy camper now ? did you get your brownie point ? momma needs to give you milk and blanket so you can go night night. oh , let me look at your profile, hold on please. heheh im back. you see i am from Texas and your from new york. sorry i hate new york, yall are so rude ...shall i post my passport to or will i get attacked ?
may god bless texas , we do things totally differant from you. , pull up my paints??? damn i wish i could grow up and be just like you , you are so intellagent i cant believe my eyes. seems to me that you drink to much prune juice, wait let me think 4 a second.im back hehehe yeah u drink to much prune juice because what comes out . im post my passport just to be just like you , furthermore. i am native american, my family comes from jacksonville florida, we are simonole indian, so im native hunny, tell jeff.
if i think of something else i pm u, so change that pamper and go night night, i give u more milk
heheheheheeheh

Jeff who? New York what?

While I'm flattered by your thought provoking PM, how about focusing your efforts on providing us with some actual proof of your transactions with Adrian instead. Right now all we are left with are some semi-coherent ramblings, minus an ounce of tangible proof that any of this actually took place.
 
Lol, wow, what a confused private message.

I'm native Texan as well (and we've got some American Indian in our blood, too, tho I'm not sure what that's got to do with anything here) but I have no idea what this person means by "we do things totally different from you". Unless she's talking about the snide uses of honey and back-handed compliments that some southerners use.

We're from the south, it's nothing but a land region, it doesn't make us special. Robert's (or anyone else's) worth as a person isn't tainted by being a "yankee."

Frankly, when I first read this thread, by just a few posts in I was absolutely convinced the OP was not a native English speaker. It would explain the near complete lack of comprehension and inability to write a coherent post. I was going to suggest finding out what her native language was and use something like Google translate to see if we got better results.

Since that is supposedly not the case, I highly recommend that you get a friend or family member help you compose your messages and explain to you exactly what is being asked of you.

You are on the verge of losing 7000 dollars if all you say is true. I don't know about anyone else but I surely could not afford to lose even a fraction of that. Now is not the time to get nasty and vindictive with the people trying to help you. No one has said one rude word to you, they are trying to understand you and gather information that will help you get your money back.

Unless attacking other people is more important to you than recovering thousands of dollars, in which case, carry on until everyone stops responding and no one wants to help you.
 
minus an ounce of tangible proof that any of this actually took place.
I am starting to wonder if there ever was a purchase. According to this person she made a series of payments to Cieslak starting almost a year ago. It doesn't seem rational to keep paying the same seller time after time for animals not received and her story is that all she received was a box turtle.
And she would repeatedly promise to call Paypal but not do so, it has been too long and she could not make a claim (if there was really a purchase) , but my point is that she would dance around on the edge of compliance and then do nothing.
And there have been nothing but excuses when Becky was asked to post emails as proof of what happened with this transaction.

Has this just been a game?

She appears to love joining in, if one looks at her past posts, there are many where she will post to a classified ad telling a seller how cute his turtle is. Maybe this was her way of joining in the BOI, to invent a purchase gone wrong.

And what a nasty message to send to Robert, who has repeatedly taken time to try to help. :(
 
I checked out Becky's profile and she states that she has been a security officer. It seems beyond belief that someone who has worked in that field would not have the knowledge, or even a peer with the knowledge, to negotiate a transaction gone wrong through Paypal.

Neither here nor there, but it seems a strange coincidence that she and another member here have been security officers, have allegedly paid for turtles and not received them and presented their issues in the BOI, and who have similar issues with melt downs. It doesn't seem that they could be the same person, but I'm wondering if somehow there is some influence behind the scenes.
 
Occasional fan mail:


New York what?
Place of birth, well that's what your passport says. New York and you were born in 1981. Guess I never knew.. :shrug01:

When did you change your name. Funny, you know how we have a pre conceived notion about how someone looks in our minds, Robert I was wrong about you.. :rofl:
 
I am starting to wonder if there ever was a purchase.

Has this just been a game?

And what a nasty message to send to Robert, who has repeatedly taken time to try to help. :(

Where is that hammer and nail emoji, I feel you have hit the nail Lucille. No proof has been shown by Becky at all. Don't get me wrong, Adrian is not in the best light right now but good grief, put up or...
 
Jet76 i was accused of not being american, that started problem, and my english/grammer
was terrible.i was asked where i was from (jeff) said that.
lucille,,hi hi
robert, that was a fair message, hey i can respect that., i will be looking in paypal, let me have some coffe then i will give you proof.
 
i need to let you folks know something
i spoke to ashley , she said that he is haveing big big
problem with imagration and he will be back, so i felt bad ,this is the reason i had stopped
i dont want to gang up on him so i opoligize to adrian.how ever, i will post proof here in a few minutes.
adrian went to poland, that was his excuse why he didnt give me my turtles
he kept pushing me off,and hell yeah im pissed off at him. i was stuck with all of this.he in poland ,,nothing i could do. he is with the imagration now. he will be back shortly
i had trust in him and i kept waiting and waiting.
i will show the proof on him,, ok robert ? let me wake up please
 
Back
Top