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Bad Guy Crestieman - Robert Shays Reptiles

Dand just PM-ed me back, and he's got a show this week-end, and will talk to Matt Parks about the whole thing.

He'll probably get back to us here on Sunday after he has a chance to talk to Matt and read the whole thread.

:)
 
This dude is posting under "Robert Shays Reptiles" on facebook -

"You know what ill give her her money back ill give her 10 dollars each week she doesn't email me I wanna see if she can make it 4 whole weeks cause I get one everyday"

His whole dialogue with someone on facebook today.

I will have the convo up in a little bit, I have three screen shots between him and another person. The other person deserves to be known also.
 
I hate that you can't add to your post but i guess that there is a reason.

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apparently he hates all of fauna too.
 
bmatyeah said:
This dude is posting under "Robert Shays Reptiles" on facebook -

"You know what ill give her her money back ill give her 10 dollars each week she doesn't email me I wanna see if she can make it 4 whole weeks cause I get one everyday"

His whole dialogue with someone on facebook today.

I will have the convo up in a little bit, I have three screen shots between him and another person. The other person deserves to be known also.
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Thanks for the info, hon!!
 
Pasodama said:
Katie, Robert's treatment, of you, and his "business practice/s", has been horrendous. He should be held accountable.
However, I do hope that you are kidding, about this (which, with the "lmao", you just may be), but, if you were to do this, it would be "stepping out of bounds" and would accomplish nothing good. The school/teachers could not intervene (or do anything), anyway, unless he were to break school policies &/or do something criminal.
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That is not true, If she were to make this a criminal case. He probally could get in trouble under schools code of ethics that they sign when they start. I know that my college if we got in trouble with the law no matter what, on campus or off we could face trouble.

But she stated this as a joke, it is not worth the time and effort, but could be done.
 
lol, this kid is just ridicules. I mean really, it's $40 bucks, he obviously doesn't care about the money, as he has stated countless times.. so he should just refund it and make his customer happy. apparently he has friends who really wouldn't care if they paid for a certain morph and sex and so it should be no big deal? please. there are lots of people who look for combos like that and in the end, no, the customer did NOT get what they paid for, only half essentially.

let him hate all of fauna. the only reason why he should now is because it would be extremely hard for him to sell anything on here, at the very least for a while until he can prove he can handle his customers appropriately. that would have to include not getting any of his friends make accounts here to give him good reviews. after all they have already been shown to have like minds.

if this was really no big deal to him, keeping customers happy, he would have refunded the money a long time ago. but his name is no big deal either because he is making his customer wait on his terms to how she is going to get her refund that is due her.

another name on the do not buy list.
 
Sounds like he doesn't get the point- it's about integrity in doing business, not really about $40 or a single mistake. It's the lying and attempted cover-up that are sending his reputation :toiletcla.

His ongoing choice to try and ignore the issue is what keeps escalating the sitution, rather than choosing to man up and deal.
 
oh yeah, he has a blackberry, that is evident so i don't know why he says he cannot keep in touch with the op. those things go online has he has shown when he first posted on his wall.
 
bmatyeah said:
It looks like someone else is responding that I cannot see on the facebook thread.
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I was the other person responding!! I can not believe he deleted everything i said must have took some time. You can add me on facebook to get the complete chat. Amanda Douglas is my name email is [email protected] my picture on facebook is a crested gecko!
 
or it could be that that person who did the snap of facebook convo wasn't my friend. You can me if you'd like to see what I had to say about the matter. Got a little sarcastic at times. We just feel bad for Katie. Was hoping that we could convince him to just give her her money back but then his friends got involved.
 
[email protected] said:
lol, this kid is just ridicules. I mean really, it's $40 bucks, he obviously doesn't care about the money, as he has stated countless times.. so he should just refund it and make his customer happy. apparently he has friends who really wouldn't care if they paid for a certain morph and sex and so it should be no big deal? please. there are lots of people who look for combos like that and in the end, no, the customer did NOT get what they paid for, only half essentially.

let him hate all of fauna. the only reason why he should now is because it would be extremely hard for him to sell anything on here, at the very least for a while until he can prove he can handle his customers appropriately. that would have to include not getting any of his friends make accounts here to give him good reviews. after all they have already been shown to have like minds.

if this was really no big deal to him, keeping customers happy, he would have refunded the money a long time ago. but his name is no big deal either because he is making his customer wait on his terms to how she is going to get her refund that is due her.

another name on the do not buy list.
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Another problem he will have in selling is the fact that several crested gecko sites will NOT allow ads from people who have unsettled BOI threads.

I don't know about Repashy, GeckosUnlimited, and others, but Ciliatus and Pangea both have this rule, so he's cut himself off from the classifieds on at least TWO of the biggest crestie sites.
 
Wow guys, thanks so much. It's an honor to be a part of this community and to have such great friends! *big hugs*

I find it funny that the friend on his Facebook is just blindly going along with it. Oh, and the excuse about a friend doing all the typing in this thread? I call BS!
 
Katie.Shinkle said:
Wow guys, thanks so much. It's an honor to be a part of this community and to have such great friends! *big hugs*

I find it funny that the friend on his Facebook is just blindly going along with it. Oh, and the excuse about a friend doing all the typing in this thread? I call BS!
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I WAS JUST ABOUT TO COMMENT ON THAT! What a load of crap! ugh. Sorry this is happening to you. I had been lurking on here for a while and finally made a user name and HAD to comment. This kid is painfully immature and has no business selling live animals. Clearly he's getting what's coming to him!
 
Katie.Shinkle said:
Wow guys, thanks so much. It's an honor to be a part of this community and to have such great friends! *big hugs*

I find it funny that the friend on his Facebook is just blindly going along with it. Oh, and the excuse about a friend doing all the typing in this thread? I call BS!
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LOL-Membership has it's privileges, hon!! You're part of the family!! You mess with one, you get the rest!!

Kind a like a reptilian Mafia.
 
Jaybee said:
It's a shame when someone with potential digs a grave so deep over something so petty. Such an easy thing to fix!
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I agree. Particulary when the buyer received this l lizard as a birthday gift.

What an opportunity it was for great PR, to maybe send a free lizard for the errors made, and a big happy birthday wish, that would have been a feel good moment and everyone would have come away a winner.

But instead of a winner, the seller reminds me of Weiner. Seriously, the now ruined politician who had everything, a tremendous future, and he wastes it for some crass behavior, sort of like the crass behavior that happened here.

And like this seller here apologized only to try to save his rep, but even politicians recognized that the apologies were not real, and that he was the sorriest most insincere excuse of a man around (until this seller here botched the birthday gift sale).

I believe in education, and in sending out into the world well prepared, ethical young men and women. As an older person, I think that it is important to make a future where our children and their children can have a better life.

If I was the buyer, I might think about talking to these folks, maybe even sending a link to this thread:

http://www.kent.edu/business/about/facultydirectory/
 
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