• In the past two days I have gotten emails asking about being requested to provide credit card info in order to register and also to make a post in the classifieds forums. PLEASE NOTE: In no instance will this site ask you for this sort of information. The only time any request for payment is made is if you choose to opt-in for a higher membership level, and that is done SOLELY through PayPal. Anything else is coming from a source other than this site. My guess is that this is coming through Google Adsense, but when I can get someone to send me a screen shot of this sort of request, I will know more.
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    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.

Bad Guy Amy Lee scam:

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I'd like to go ahead and report a scam that took place earlier today out of a FB group. The seller in question (Amy Lee of Chicago/Hoffman Estates in Illinois) posted an image of a gecko and enclosure. While the enclosure was the one listed, I found out upon arrival the gecko was not.

At first, she began explaining the gecko I was presented with looked different because it was older and fired down. She said it's color was changing (citing a blushing throat to claim it was going peach?). I was not confrontational; I simply said "This is not the same gecko." She back-tracked and said that the gecko pictured was one she sold earlier. This is also NOT true.

Someone was kind enough to do a reverse Google image search for me. The picture she used is of a gecko posted 2 years prior, belonging to someone who resides in the UK.

To give her credit, she did change the pictures after the encounter...and $50 is a fair price for the female and enclosure she in fact does possess. BUT this is no excuse to be intentionally deceptive when listing an animal and continue to lie to cover your tracks. A mistake is quite different than what actually took place. I'm calling it for what it is: a bait and switch. Please be wary of scammers such as this. Ask for additional pictures rather than waste your time and money on a deal that seems too good to be true, you'll end up getting duped if not.

Here is a link to the Pangea thread in question showing the gecko she tried passing off as her own: http://www.pangeareptile.com/forums/showthread.php?66049-TRI-COLORS (Thank you Brian!)
 
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