Let's see...four of those are good guy threads where people come in and bring up past posts. One is a straight up good guy. Two are issues where he couldn't be reached before any transaction was set up. Three are inquiries from years ago when he was apparently in a partnership with someone else that has a lot of negative feedback from that time. One was about his partner from that time, not him specifically. So aside from this thread, which seems to be full of he said/she said and has been resolved I'm not seeing anything that deals with him specifically in a negative light that's not six years old or more. But I did notice that you didn't just post the bad threads.
There you go, Chris. That's also I'm saying. You don't have to agree with someone, but if you can't make your arguments in a way that's not insulting, then I at least am going to have a hard time taking you seriously.
For the record, I'm waiting on two snakes from him that will be shipped out later this week after the weather warms up a bit. I don't care how well they're packaged. Heat packs fail. My fiancée brought me one off of his ambulance (for me, not a snake) that failed after 5 minutes, so if packs designed for emergency medical use can fail, I'm not putting all my faith in packs designed for pets. **** happens and I don't want animals going out in single digit temps. And I will be posting when they get here. No, that's not an invitation to clutter my post with crap from years ago and stuff that's already resolved.
Personally, I think Guy is using Chris and others to hose Carson. 0.2 YB, 0.2 Mojaves, and a pewter vanilla? That's $1200 worth of snakes easy. The only places I've seen 40% interest rates are title loan and "buy here pay here" places and I deal with all sorts of loans all day long at my job. 5.25% is the federal going rate. I think anything more than a female YB or two is too much, especially considering that Guy agreed to all these other deals and didn't have a single complaint till he couldn't get ahold of Carson for two days over the holidays and has continued to try to get more and more out of him the longer this thread goes on.
Before the refund was sent:
So, averaging from multiple ads currently on kingsnake:
Banana male--$1200
Puma male-- $2300
(Already at $3500)
Adult normal females--3 @ $150 = $450
or
Female yellowbellies--3 @ $195 = $585
Total: $3950 (if normals) or $4085 (if yellowbellies)
So he's already being promised around $1000 worth of snakes extra, which is around 33% "interest". Then everyone gets on and there are a ton of posts and he comes back with:
Again, averaging prices off of current kingsnake ads:
Banana male--$1200
Female mojaves--2 @ $200 = $400 (I actually paid more than $200 for mine a couple months ago)
Female yellowbelly--$195
Puma male--$2300
Spark Female--$900
Total: $4995
So now we're up to $2000 extra, which is 66% "interest". I'll loan just about anybody $3000 for a few years if it nets me a two-thirds return.
So then he gets his $3000 back, but it's not enough. He still wants interest. Ok, so Carson offers scaleless rats, which Guy valued at $250 (8% interest...more than the 5.25% federal rate or my car loan, so still not bad) but Guy complains about that and so Carson offers this:
Female yellowbellies--2 @ $195 = $390
Female mojaves--2 @ $200 = $400
1.0 Pewter Vanilla--$800 (used facebook classifieds because I couldn't find any on kingsnake)
Total: $1590 which is 53% interest. As I said before, the only "lender" who's going to charge 53% interest on a loan is a title loan place or a buy-here-pay-here place. So yeah, I think an "interest rate" that's ten times the federal rate is pretty ridiculous, especially considering that Guy was aware that this was going to be a long-term deal and, at least according to Carson and to Guy's *first* statements, he didn't ask for a refund. He continued to ask for snakes that weren't even produced yet.
He's hosing you, Carson. Throw him the pewter vanilla and be done. If you want to give away snakes, you're more than welcome to toss those female yellowbellies in with my guys.