About a month ago me and Andrew agreed upon a trade plus cash on my end. I would be trading for a pinstripe female and would also be paying $200. I sent the $200 over immediately and we agreed we would ship in spring when shipping weather was available. I asked if I could get some update pictures and got no response.
About a week later I got a response saying that they would get pictures for me that day but I never got any pictures.
Another couple weeks went by and I inquired about the pictures, but no response. Thats when I started hearing about the scamming and the not responding and I started getting uneasy. I asked the BOI-Reptile Feedback group on Facebook if I should go through with the deal and they said go with my gut, and if I was uncomfortable with the deal I should call it off. I decided it was best to call it off since there seemed to be so many bad things popping up about him.
I messaged him on Facebook (January 22 at 10:30 am) saying I wanted a refund since I didn't feel comfortable with the deal, and got no response back (although the message was read at 10:52). Thats when someone on the Facebook BOI group messaged me saying how they were trying to get a refund, and the best way to contact him was through email. So i sent him an email (at 4:48) saying how I didn't feel comfortable with it and if nothing were to be done by the end of the week (Sunday January 25), I would start a conflict with paypal. I got a response back almost immediately (at 4:56) saying that he would send it as soon as he got off work. I was up until 2am and no refund, but I figured I would just go to sleep and see if it showed up the next day.
The next day came (January 23), and still no refund so I messaged him that evening (at 5:14) saying I never got the refund and asked if something had happened. He, again, responded almost immediately (at 5:27) apologizing about how he came home and fell asleep immediately and that he would get it to me that night since he got off earlier. I again waited and still no refund.
The next day (January 24) i decided that I would message him one more time that evening reminding him again that he had until the end of Sunday, January 25 before I took action.
I had just gotten home that evening (January 24) and was about to send him an email when I got an email from paypal saying that I had been refunded $200. I sent him an email saying thank you for the refund, and that was the end of it.
I thought I would share this since I know he's refunded some people and not refunded others. I think the best way to communicate with him is through email (the same one you sent the money to with paypal) since he seems to respond immediately, while with Facebook it takes him weeks to respond. I didn't really feel that I needed to post screenshots, but I can if it is needed (I have screenshots of all the emails sent between us and the Facebook messages as well as the paypal refund email). My advice would be to email him, and give him a deadline for the refund. That way he either sends it on his own, or he has to worry about you taking action and possibly freezing his paypal account (and possibly his bank account depending on how you take action). I think he has a lot of personal issues going on right now and thats why he hasn't been responding and people haven't been getting their refunds (although thats no excuse since there are some things he has done that are inexcusable like sending pictures of animals that have already been sold and not responding to people when he has quite a bit of their money).
The only excuse that I can think of it that he spent the money already, so he is trying to sell stuff that way he can pay back the people asking for refunds, and he is ignoring the people he recently got money from since he is giving their money to the people who asked for refunds a while ago hoping the recent people won't take action yet (if that makes any sense). I think he tried scamming people with pictures of leachies he already sold because he started getting desperate and/or ran out of animals to sell and needed the money to refund all the people asking for refunds (even though that would mean he hadnt thought ahead very much).
Whatever the case is, I'm very sorry for those of you who haven't gotten your refunds yet
Like I said, I would try emailing him since that seems to be the fastest way of getting ahold of him. I also have him cell #, so if you would like to try calling him PM me and I can give you his number (I dont want to post it here since I dont want people calling and harassing him. That wont help at all…)
