Styx
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On September 7th I sent David Davilman, “Never Enough Reptiles” the full payment for a crested gecko he had listed on Kingsnake after contacting him about purchasing the animal.
On September 8th he sent me a gecko. It was the wrong gecko; I contacted him immediately about the mixup. This is the animal when it first arrived.
I noticed the front legs looked a little swollen and lumpy in person (it’s difficult to see in the photo), but ignored it as myself just being a little paranoid.
David was very nice and very apologetic. He said I could keep the wrong gecko (at the time I was pretty thrilled about that) and that he would send out the correct gecko on September 13th.
September 14th arrives, no gecko. I send him an e-mail asking if he’d sent the gecko because it had not arrived. He replied with:
“I sent you an email yesterday to confirm you could accept today. I didn't get a response so I didn't ship. Looking at our message log, it doesn't appear my email was sent.”
He shipped the gecko on the 15th. On the 16th no gecko, so I call him after checking the tracking number. The gecko didn’t leave the FedEx location; there was some type of mix up. Not his fault. He said he would ship out the following Monday.
The following day, I noticed the crested I had gotten from him was crashing BIG TIME when I got home in the morning from work.
It’s flat, not fat, like a pancake and the legs are bowing severely. It was also shaking constantly, as though it had palsy.
There’s… not really any way MBD that bad could set in that fast, even if there was something going wrong with my care. I didn’t want to accuse, I wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt, and he did still have my other gecko so I didn’t want to act harshly prematurely. So I e-mailed him and asked what he was feeding them on the 17th. He said baby food and crickets. Concerned for the gecko of mine still in his care, I asked him to please feed it some extra calcium. He said he did.
I was really hoping it was a fluke, that it was just this one gecko.
On September 21st the correct gecko arrived. These are photos taken immediately out of the box (with the photo from the Kingsnake ad he had taken).
Suspicions confirmed he wasn’t supplementing correctly, I e-mailed him immediately after taking the photos and sent those with the e-mail.
I e-mailed him twice more on the 22nd and asked him for a partial refund.
On the 23rd I e-mailed him again, saying, “Hey David, I’m not sure what went wrong with the geckos, but they’re both in bad shape and I’d appreciate a response.”
I have both e-mailed and called him with no response to any messages what-so-ever. I feel I’ve given him ample time to respond to me in some way about selling me geckos with MBD before making this post. I have also e-mailed him with a link to this topic should he choose to reply to it.
-(Amanda) Faye Parker
On September 8th he sent me a gecko. It was the wrong gecko; I contacted him immediately about the mixup. This is the animal when it first arrived.
I noticed the front legs looked a little swollen and lumpy in person (it’s difficult to see in the photo), but ignored it as myself just being a little paranoid.
David was very nice and very apologetic. He said I could keep the wrong gecko (at the time I was pretty thrilled about that) and that he would send out the correct gecko on September 13th.
September 14th arrives, no gecko. I send him an e-mail asking if he’d sent the gecko because it had not arrived. He replied with:
“I sent you an email yesterday to confirm you could accept today. I didn't get a response so I didn't ship. Looking at our message log, it doesn't appear my email was sent.”
He shipped the gecko on the 15th. On the 16th no gecko, so I call him after checking the tracking number. The gecko didn’t leave the FedEx location; there was some type of mix up. Not his fault. He said he would ship out the following Monday.
The following day, I noticed the crested I had gotten from him was crashing BIG TIME when I got home in the morning from work.
It’s flat, not fat, like a pancake and the legs are bowing severely. It was also shaking constantly, as though it had palsy.
There’s… not really any way MBD that bad could set in that fast, even if there was something going wrong with my care. I didn’t want to accuse, I wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt, and he did still have my other gecko so I didn’t want to act harshly prematurely. So I e-mailed him and asked what he was feeding them on the 17th. He said baby food and crickets. Concerned for the gecko of mine still in his care, I asked him to please feed it some extra calcium. He said he did.
I was really hoping it was a fluke, that it was just this one gecko.
On September 21st the correct gecko arrived. These are photos taken immediately out of the box (with the photo from the Kingsnake ad he had taken).
Suspicions confirmed he wasn’t supplementing correctly, I e-mailed him immediately after taking the photos and sent those with the e-mail.
I e-mailed him twice more on the 22nd and asked him for a partial refund.
On the 23rd I e-mailed him again, saying, “Hey David, I’m not sure what went wrong with the geckos, but they’re both in bad shape and I’d appreciate a response.”
I have both e-mailed and called him with no response to any messages what-so-ever. I feel I’ve given him ample time to respond to me in some way about selling me geckos with MBD before making this post. I have also e-mailed him with a link to this topic should he choose to reply to it.
-(Amanda) Faye Parker
