anyone know James McGinnis / [email protected] anyone know this person?

[JungleHabitats]

If anyone knows this person please post what you know of them.I received a email from this person on two occasions once on 3/12/04 and 4/03/04 the first email was what i called a "bogus" email on a cage inquiry which i responded to as i do any email that comes in and the one recieved last night was well not so friendly of a email.

First Email recieved:

[email protected] <[email protected]>
Friday, March 12, 2004 11:32 AM
[email protected] <[email protected]>
Message about: MARCH MADNESS CONTINUES * 3x2x1 $185 shipped

Wow!
How much is that tiny 10 inch cage in the left and right picture?
I REALLY want one!

WOW!!

Tony
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Second Email Received :


James Mcginnis <[email protected]>
Saturday, April 03, 2004 11:51 PM
[email protected] <[email protected]>
cages
When am I getting my goddam cages?
Do you make all your customers wait 3 months?>

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I have checked back on my PayPal account for one year there have been NO payments recieved from the name James McGinnis , "Troy" or [email protected] .I returned a email to this person this morning and this was the email :

[email protected] <[email protected]>
Sunday, April 04, 2004 8:48 AM
James Mcginnis <[email protected]>
Re: Cages
Mr McGinnis,
After recieiving this email this morning i have checked through my payment
records and have found NO payment via paypal from a James McGinnis or from a
email address [email protected]. if you would please be more specific
on what cages you ordered with a proof of payment with date and type of
payment sent i will be happy to search my records again for your order. We
just started selling our cages on march 9th 2004 in the plastic caging and
i do not recall any payments for ANY other cages being recieved.or if you
would provide me with a phone number we can discuss this on the phone once
a proof of payment is recieved.It is not my practice to recieve a payment
without sending out a product in return.I do make any payments recieved
noted of the date and sender of the payment a search from January 04 untill
today shows no record of a payment recieved.
Alan Hall
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I take this email very seriously and i can say that i have not nor ever will recieve a payment and not inturn either send a product or send a refund to a customer for anything.Since receiving this email when i awoke this morning i have been racking my brain and any records i have here and cannot find anything in my records as to anypayment being received for anything that has not been shipped out .

This is not a " BadGuy" post just a simple inquiry on this person/s


Thanks for any feedback or information on this this person or dealing you might have had
Alan

 

[HerpVenue]

your answer is

This message was sent by the user: boaphile

Sent 09:32 AM, Mar 12th, 2004 from I.P. Address 170.215.15.254
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[JungleHabitats]

Follow up Email ....

This is a second email i sent to the person claiming they have not recieved a cage after a supposed time of 3 months. I have come to the conclusion this emailer/ person is begrudged about somthing and they have nothing better to do with their valuable time then to play in hotmail .

Mr , McGinnis ,

I am still awaiting to hear back from you on this matter. I have gone
through every PayPal transaction for the last year and every photo copied
money order i have received. I cannot find anything with the name James
McGinnis on it or the email [email protected] in paypal records.I would
like to clarify this purchase that you have clamied to have made with my
company so that one way or another it is resolved for us both. Please
respond back to this email as it is a concern of mine that someone has
claimed to have not received a cage that was ordered and espically since it
is claimed to have been three months and no cage.This ii can assure has
never happended before and is something i do not take lightly we always
make sure EVERY customer recieves there cages unless something comes up
due to a material supplier problem and at that time we email and offer a
refund or for it to be shipped out as soon as materials arrive and cage is
built.I will await you response to this urgent situation

Thanks for your time
Alan Hall
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Mcginnis" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2004 11:51 PM
Subject: Cages


> When am I getting my goddam cages?
> Do you make all your customers wait 3 months?>
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I apologize for the language in the email body sent by the anonomous person but felt it better to not edit it out to show the this persons demeanor. It has become obvious that their claim is un founded as i could assure you if anyone was out money or product for this length of time he/she would surely be keeping ontop of a email account such as hotmail etc awaiting a response from the person that was "supposedly" holding there goods.I wanted to bring this to light to assure ANYONE that I do run a tight ship here at JungleHabitats and take any emails to me very serious even when they are obviously bogus such as this email was .I take any claim personally that something is wrong or not handled properly by me .I will still be doing a more indepth investigation to determine who this email came from and have some very strong leads on the orignator of this email i will keep this thread updated as more evidence is uncovered.

Thanks for reading
Alan

 

[Randy T.]

Hey Alan, the user that uses Boaphile on ks is Ronne.. here is a thread link showing a response he did (He almost never posts, so it was hard to find) but it clearly shows the user name and his name at the bottom.

http://forums.kingsnake.com/viewarch.php?id=2957,3083&key=2003

Here is the body of the post, just incase it disappears, as a couple of cage forum posts seemed to have done.


Posted by: boaphile at Sun Feb 9 10:24:48 2003 [ Email Message ]

The money I pay to kingsnake.com to host my six web sites is actually cheaper than free. Sure I write out a small check every year but what I get back from kingsnake.com is the best service I get from any company I have ever dealt with. The highest traffic web site which sends thousands to my web sites as it will yours. You can have your web site somewhere that is literally free but you need to remember, sometimes you get what you pay for. I would pay kingsnake.com twice what they charge me happily if they asked for it. kingsnake.com is just that good and important. My two cents worth.

Jeff Ronne / The Boaphile


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[JungleHabitats]

Hmmm ......

Thank you Randy for taking the time to find that thread , I knew in my gut who it was from the word go even before i even noticed the " username " in the first email.The Creator of all the plastic cages on the market today must have some free time on his hands to play in hotmail accounts and be someone he isnt or wont be.... what a shame to but o'well i will address this thread later today as i have cages to build for customers that have PAID for cages ....
Thanks again Randy

 

[dwedeking]

I am continually amazed at how childish and unprofessional this industry can be at times. We've had similiar games played by competitors and it just makes them look sad.

On another note, Alan, you should only be worried if competitors aren't thinking of you!

 

[DaveyFig]

I was wondering if it is possible to change the title of the thread to reflect this information? Since aparently James McGinnis isn't the real name, there aren't going to be a whole lot of people looking at this thread to see what they might have to add, since nobody has had the pleasure of doing business with Mr.McGinnis.

 

[drimes]

My first reaction when reading this entire thread is... You've got to be kidding! The inferences that Mr. Ronne is connected to any of this nonsense, while mildly amusing, is complete rubbish. Any who have ever received an e-mail from him can see immediately that the originating IP address is not Jeff's. Also my personal experience with Jeff is that he is a first rate individual with better things to do with his time than this.

It is unfortunate that someone sent the e-mails in the first place, but the world is full of immature people with little to do but try to stir up trouble just to sit back and watch the fallout. I would not make any more of the matter than just that.

Just because Ronne made a post on KS touting his good luck with them as a marketing tool doesn't mean anything in the context of Mr. Hall's recent difficulty with what appears to be a prankster. I am sure Mr. Hall's customers know the type of person he is which is why they are HIS customers in the first place. Why would they purchase anything from his company in the first place if they did not trust him?

Anyway, good luck with finding the real perpetrator and keep building cages. It is Springtime and there will be plenty new reptiles to fill them all!

Denny Rimes

 

[Randy T.]

I agree, it will probably be buried deep with a vague unknown name on it.

 

[Randy T.]

Just because Ronne made a post on KS touting his good luck with them as a marketing tool doesn't mean anything in the context of Mr. Hall's recent difficulty with what appears to be a prankster. I am sure Mr. Hall's customers know the type of person he is which is why they are HIS customers in the first place. Why would they purchase anything from his company in the first place if they did not trust him?

Anyway, good luck with finding the real perpetrator and keep building cages. It is Springtime and there will be plenty new reptiles to fill them all!

Denny Rimes

The only reason I put that post on here is to show BOAPHILE is the user name that Ronne uses on kingsnake. AND one of the emails was sent with the user name BOAPHILE through kingsnake. The content of the post has little to do with this thread, and feel free to complain to have it removed from my post, but the USERNAME does have validity to this thread.

Later

 

[JungleHabitats]

Denny let me say this

I am not the type person to make insinuations about anthing or anyone withOUT some sort of solid facts , or proof of what i am claiming .I made this thread to see if anyone knew of anyone that went by the name "James McGinnis" , i for one know full well who my customers are and who has and has not paid me money for my services or products.So i do not take kindly to even a prankster pulling something like this with me .The chances that the person making this claim that it would have EVER went further then my email is slim to none BUT i felt the need to cover my bases and make sure that my side of what happened was told .I have provided the needed proof ( emails ) of the person that sent me them so there is NO mistaken that they exsist.What i didnt realize at first was that the two emails 3 1/2 weeks apart was from the same hotmail account, i only discovered this when i did a search in my outlook for the hotmaill address and the two emails that have been posted here came up to that hotmail account of [email protected] . Now thats when it struck me a lil " odd if you will . As the first email i responded to asap even though i knew it was more or less a "sarcastic" email. The part that was the oddest of it all was as i had just finished responding to the email Randy had IM me and ask me what size the cage was in the ad and asked if it was 10" or not ??? that was VERY odd and then it came together that from someone i will not posttheir name untill i speak with them to get their ok to doso had spoken with Jeff Ronne and Jeff was making light of the fact of the cage being "small like it was. So with that it didnt take a rocket scientist to put 1+1 together to come up with the number 2 , Jeff had made it known that he was joking about the size of the cage so when the first email was recieved without a doubt i had my inclinations on who had sent it or had someone send it. what i didnt realize at that time was the username " Boaphile" in the email from the KS email system. WHat Jeff didnt realize was that cage was a REALcage that i had someone request to house geckos in for a table at a show and would possibly want more of them if they liked it .Now when the 2nd email came in saturday night i was in bed as i have been working 7 days aweek since march 4th building cages for customers that PAID me for cages.So when i awoke sunday morning and got the email i was in a state of panic as to who this person was that claimed they had waited 3 months for cages and with the language they used i felt it was a VERY urgent thing to address so i cordially emailed this person to ask for proof of purchase as i had not ever spoken with a ?James McGinnis" on any deal for cages ever and certainly not in the past 3 months.After searching mine and my partners PayPal accounts for the name and email i found nothing , i then went through my record of MoneyOrder receipts and again nothing this put my mind at ease but i still wanted to find out if this person had mistaken sent his payment to someone else and thinking it was sent to me . so again i emailed him sunday to ask foir this verification of his payments and explained to him it was something i didnt take lightly for a possibly customer to think i had stolen anything from them and explained to him if materials are held up or anything arises i always offer a refund or let them know of the status and they can choose to wait for materials to arrive and the cage/s will be shipped out ASAP. Since sunday i have been doing some IP tracing among other things to find out the originator of these emails and i do expect to have them pinpointes in the nearing future i have three locations that i will be having traced by the IP providers i have uncovered . KS will also be asked to verify the username " boaphile and the date in which it was sent as i know they can find this on there mail server logs . I also know that with KS its not possible for two seperate enities to have the EXACT same username in their systems . so with the first email that should be easy enough to provide factual eveidence of the sender of that email . However im not sure how willing the folks at kingsnake will be to provide this evidence to me and if they wont i will go other routes to have that provided to me . I still have yet to make a claim of guilt in this fiasco but i did thank randy for taking the time to find the post that he did post thus providing that Jeff Ronne does indeed use the name "Boaphile" in and on Kingsnake so i know that there isnt another username thats spelled exactly the same as that. so as i stated both the KS ad email and the email of the begrudeged person both use the same [email protected] email account so i find it VERY interesting that when Randy posted the info he did post here that the username Boaphile is also in someway or another connected to the email account of [email protected].

I dont expect everyone to beleive anything that is posted here and if it wasnt for the proof that has showed up thus far i wouldnt either , But when there is proof that atleast the usernames match up to Jeff Ronnes and that when that matches up its awfull funny that that username is also connected to the email address of [email protected] , AND then the email from James Mcginnis is also from [email protected] it just is way to many planets lining up at this time . As i said idont expect many folks to take to heart the proof thus far that has been laid out by a few folks here as its like David & Goliath , hard to swallow it could happen harder to swllow it could be true and hardest of all from someone that has been looked at by many in this buisness as exactly what you said Denny

Jeff is that he is a first rate individual with better things to do with his time than this

but as history has shown in this field and many others not everyone is what they seem to be ..... everyone has two sides to them so just because you feel one way please dont detract from the evidence that has been laid forth thus far as it does not and has not lied its all here in black & white . I will also look at downloading a trial version of a screen shot program to post actual screenshots of these two emails i have in my outlook so that without a doubt there can be no claiming i have edited them in anyway to show other then what has been posted here thus far .
I will kepp the thread updated with things as they unfold.

Take care and again im not making accusations of anyone at this time just laying out whats there ...

 

[HerpVenue]

Any who have ever received an e-mail from him can see immediately that the originating IP address is not Jeff's.

Actually the user who sent it was named BOAPHILE.
His screen name is Boaphile.
NO ONE else can log in to his account and send e-mail under his user name unless he gave them the password.
If you also look at the IP address it traces to MN

Also my personal experience with Jeff is that he is a first rate individual with better things to do with his time than this.

Actually I consider Jeff a friend. I a, privy to a couple of things he has done.
I also know he likes to play jokes.
I will not say some of the jokes he plays.
But he does like to joke around.

So I am thinking he is just joking around.

its awfull funny that that username is also connected to the email address of [email protected]

Did you just say that the screen name BOAPHILE is connected to cosmicslug?

 

[JungleHabitats]

Email search for [email protected]

hope this shows up

 

[JungleHabitats]

ok here are the screen shots i promised to provide some proof of my claims i hope they show up here as photos if not they are in my forums , if for anyreason they cannot be viewed please let me know and ill have to get someone who knows how to make pictures show up better then i in the BOI

 

[JungleHabitats]

KS email

this is the email that was received march 12th 2004 from the username Boaphile off of my add on the classifieds of KS

 

[JungleHabitats]

James Mcginnis email

last email recieved on saturday night .


Now none of these screen shots have been edited in any way , shape or form . all i can say is make of them what you see , the proof is there in each photo linking all three together and back to the username "boaphile"

 

[drimes]

Alan, you appear to be diligently searching for the real perpetrator of the e-mails, which is what I would do if I were you. It does "seem" a little shady about the usrename, but the IP address will give you the culprit for sure. Now I know that Jeff is a resident of Minnesota and that someone said the IP address is from MN as well, but I am reasonably sure that although Minnesota is sparsely populated, there are at least a FEW people there other than Jeff that keep herps! Any one of them could be the sender of the mail too. Try to keep this in mind.

I commend you for your diligence thus far and truly hope that you find who did this to you. Bear in mind that it is probably just a mindless prank of computer saavy youngster and not a malicious attack on our business. Just keep serving your customers in the best way you can and let your reputation speak for itself.

Again, best of luck to you. If you build cages with as much enthusiasm as you are pursuing this matter I don't think that you have to worry about this affecting your business!

Denny Rimes

 

[wes]

Denny you sound like a level headed guy but i think Alan has shown enough proof to know who is at the task of playing an ill mannered prank. I cant see even the sparsly populated state of MN. having 2 boaphile registered users that use K.S. and are going by the same name. Now im not real up to date on computer hacking and what they are capable of, but it just seems outta whack and way to easy for THE INNOVATOR to be picking on his competiton and having what they think is fun. All out truth it's kinda sad, from what I hear he has like the largest collections of boas around i would think this kinda time would be better spent cleaning cages. wes

 

[drimes]

As a matter af fact, I think I have a few cages to clean myself. Well put, wes.

Denny Rimes

 

[JungleHabitats]

Denny ....

You are absolutely correct i amd diligently researching this info and i will as long as i get participation from the KS crew have a definate confrimation on the username " boaphile" i truely dont expect them to go anywhere with my requests .I admire your standing in defending what is plainly laid out here but i would have to disagree with you on the analogy of people in MN

It does "seem" a little shady about the usrename, but the IP address will give you the culprit for sure. Now I know that Jeff is a resident of Minnesota and that someone said the IP address is from MN as well, but I am reasonably sure that although Minnesota is sparsely populated, there are at least a FEW people there other than Jeff that keep herps! Any one of them could be the sender of the mail too. Try to keep this in mind.

I realize that some people will not wont to belive what has been shown here and i understand that fully , but while keeping this in mind the username boaphile is connected to [email protected] ..... the KS email ad has the username boaphile..... we all know that only one username can be attributed to a user on KS to prove this have someone you know try to post with your username it just wont happen UNLESS you give them you username & password. the same holds true for hotmail email account only the holder and someone who was given the email name and password can access that email account . so i have to ask you to add up the peices of this puzzle. I will still say at this point im not saying it was Jeff who sent these emails but iwill stand by firmly and say it was someone that had access to atleast his username for KS , also which is connected to the [email protected] which is also connected to the same email from "JamesMcginnis" those three things there are just to similar to overlook IMHO again i will be looking further into all of this at night when im not working on paid orders .
take care