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Beware of Tsgirl882000 (Reptibid user name)

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At this point I have decided to post this information on the BOI to warn all others to avoid dealing with this person. I posted about this in the General Business section. Here is a brief summary of what transpired:

I was looking at an auction on Reptibid for 2 burms. It was plainly marked as a "NO RESERVE" auction, with an opening bid of $10. So, I placed the opening bid (with around 10 or 12 days remaining until the end of the auction). I was outbid the next day by someone ($12 bid). So, a day goes by, and I see that the current high bidder has pulled their bid, and I am once agian the high bidder.

I go to the "ask seller a guestion" section, and the seller has stated that "the burms have been sold". The burms where sold AFTER there were bids placed on a NO RESERVE auction!! Would this bother anyone else? I can understand that they may have wanted to sell them for a higher amount than the current bid, but they:

1. did not let the auction run it's course to completion, so there is no telling how high the bids would have gotten.

2. posted these burms for auction with no reserve

Does anyone else think it is outright dishonest to do this? The TOS clearly state that once bids are placed, you are entering into a binding contract with the bidder to sell the items to them, providing that the bid is over the reserve amount (no reserve). Do you think that it is wrong to place animals up for auction, then to sell them elsewhere before the auction has ended?

To anyone that is interested, I have saved both the main auction page with all information, as well as the "ask seller a question" page to show what was said by both myself and the seller. I don't know how to do those "screen captures", so I copied the whole page and saved it in an email. If someone knows how to post a copy of that here, I will gladly forward the pages to you.


By the way, this auction that I described is still an active auction!

Now, some of you are aware of this from reading this thread:
http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=23774

This persons email is [email protected]

Here is a link to the auction that is still active:
http://www.reptibid.com/cgi-bin/auction/auction.pl?category=d_tortoise_sulcatas&item=1061437683
You can see that is clearly states that this is a NO RESERVE auction.

Here is a link to the "ask seller a question" page.
http://www.reptibid.com/cgi-bin/auc...&category=d_tortoise_sulcatas&item=1061437683

This auction will end in a few days, so I have saved these pages in their entirety for all to see. Just give me your email address and I will forward them to you (don't know how to post the whole page here.

I have emailed this person several times, but never recieve a email back. She has posted in the auction cussing at me. I said exactly what I think about the situation in the auction (ask seller a question section) since that is the only way this person would respond. In my opinion she is a scammer. Please read all the comments (she says she had them sold before she ever put them up for auction!!!)

Sorry this is so long, but with this growing trend of using auction sites as just another form of classified advertising, I feel that others should know who to avoid.

By the way, I did notify reptibid of this when it first happened, (several times) and I have yet to recieve a response from them. They apparently don't care if people break the TOS over there, and let scammers openly use their auction site. I doubt I will be buying anything else from that site unless it is from someone I know personally.
 
By the way, here is what it says when you want to sell an item on reptibid:

Steps for posting an item up for auction Return Sellers Click Here to Post

You must be at least 18 years of age or older.
You must be a registered member. New Users Click Here to Register
You must own the item you are auctioning.
Your email address and contact information must be kept current.
You must be able to respond daily to questions submitted by bidders.
It is your responsibility to contact the high bidder.
It is your responsibility to collect payment from the high bidder.
It is your responsibility to ship the auction item in a timely manner.
Once you post your item, you will receive an email detailing your listing.
Use the button below to login.
Any User deleting or ending an auction once a bid has been placed by making comments in the description section such as "Item has been sold", "This auction has been ended", "Do not place any more bids", etc,
will be permanently banned from ReptiBid.

No Trading, this is an auction site.
Any user using the word "trade" in their ad will be banned from this site.

This is a copy and paste of the steps for selling on that site. That page can be found here:

http://www.reptibid.com/sell_item.htm (just so everyone knows I am not making up my own wording)
 
Jason,
The seller apparently, as I see it, has two auctions with these same snakes listed. Just change the last number to a four instead of a 3 and you can view that one. I believe it is a currently running auction and the snakes have a bid of $41.00 or at least did when I last looked. I sent off an email to RepriBid to explain that I found this unethical and asked that they take some corrective action. Hopefully if they get enough email, they will do something about this seller.

Best regards,
Glenn B
 
Jason,

ReptiBid got back in touch with me pretty quickly to let me know that the user in question and her ads were deleted from their system. See the quoted email below:

Subj: Re: Serious complaint about a seller......
Date: 8/17/03 3:04:32 PM Mountain Daylight Time
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Sent from the Internet (Details)


Glenn,

The user along with the two items listed by that user have been deleted from the ReptiBid auction system. This users account should have already been deleted but I guess we overlooked it. Thank you for taking the time to sending me your email so that we might keep our system clean of people like this.

Thanks,
ReptiBid
Fraud Dividion
Click to expand...

I guess they took action based on your emails to them after all.

Good Work!

Best regards,
Glenn B:)
 
Glenn
I have seen that auction as well. I posted on that auction to alert the other bidders as to what was going on.

I have also just recieved this email from reptibid regarding this issue:
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Dear Jason,

The items that you listed have been removed from our auction system. I have also deleted the user Tsgirl882000 from our registration. Thank you very much for bring this to my attention.

ReptiBid
Fraud Division
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Thanks for your help!
 
For you trying to be so smart you have repeated yourself more than a few times (not too smart) a classic example of a talker Mr brennan you have said what you wanted let it rest your just making youself look like a fool go tell your mommy what to do dont try to run the show here you dont scrare no one,but its up to you we can play games too lets see if you will act your age and let it rest thank you

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This is the first and only email I have recieved from this person. I now know her name is Tanya Salas. She is apparently mad about being banned from Reptibid. The subject of the email was "dumdass", which I am guessing is suppossed to mean dumbass. I just recieved this email today after I posted on the BOI (which I told her I would do if she did not respond to me, and which I have provided her a link to).

I just wanted to add her actual name to this thread in case anyone ever does a search for information on this seller.
 
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