Samantha12986
Samantha's Geckos
I don't remember you apologizing many times, I remember you stating that it was SYR's responsibility because you went through their account. You're right that that wasn't my concern though. I did receive them alive and was not asking for compensation for that. I was just informing you of what you did wrong and trying to educate you about the laws as a service to everyone in the reptile community. People that ship like you did risk everyone's ability to ship reptiles. I am glad you have learned your lesson and won't do that again. If nothing else good comes out of this situation, at least there is that.
I did not try to dictate the arrival time of the package. When they had not arrived by the time that I expected them to, I looked at the tracking info and it gave an estimate of arrival by 4PM which would not have been acceptable on a hot day like that and I was concerned for them. I did not (and still do not) blame you for Fedex running late, I just wanted to confirm that you had shipped them Priority Overnight which you had.
It was not my responsibility to come up with terms to fix the situation, that was on you. You should have offered to take them back for a refund. I gave you multiple opportunities to come up with a solution that was acceptable to you before I proposed my own.
What concerns did you have with dealing with me from the beginning? Everything was smooth until the day that they arrived as far as I can see. I absolutely am not trying to scam you.
As for the phone number, I do apologize for that. I did not do that intentionally. I was paying attention to the messages and didn't notice that it had most of your number visible at the top. I would have blacked it out if I realized that. You do post your number in all of your ads though so I don't think you are actually concerned about that, I think you are trying to come up with anything against me that you can possibly find.
I did receive your text and read your offer on here refund me partially if I would take down this thread and drop all claims. I would drop the Paypal claim but it is not possible to remove or even edit BOI posts. That is why I gave you every opportunity to fix this before posting here. Posting something permanent like this was a last resort and I even mentioned to you twice that I was going to need to come here if you continued to ignore me.
Personally, I think I have been quite reasonable throughout this whole process and I think most people agree. I really appreciate everyone that has taken the time to read through this lengthy thread and share their thoughts here.
Lesson learned for the future, watch for low weights on "RTB" animals, and wait for new photos if something seems sketchy (even if the seller pulls out the "lots of people interested" line when you ask for more pics - at that point, I just let the lots of other people buy instead). Definitely someone I wouldn't recommend buying from :/
