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Agreed ....

Well they way it looks no matter how it turns out it cant be good as teresa says that probably going to put a thorn in the opening :mad:

like the magazine says though ....Inquirying minds need to know

Vinnie i hope you get some answers on why and how ... maybe it was just bad handling on UPS's part ?
 
chris ....

Give peace a chance ..... ( but yeah if only Vegas was so easy !)

but untill we know i am going to go with UPS handling ..
see that glass it is half full .... sorta kinda almost
 
geesh sorry

I wonder if # 3 was sent back as well but just never entered ? as its still out for delivery and doesnt show it made it there yet ?
 
The Verdict...Not Guilty

I know everyone is curious and many have followed my packages' progress down the east Coast. Those same people have also seen that 2 packages arrived and 1 did not. UPS LOST the other package and did this (pic below) to the middle sized one. Sal came through as promised. The cages were high quality, packed properly and shipped as intended. You be the judge though for UPS. The UPS guy said it looked like one of the packages may have been "dropped".

I have to make a claim. The other unit should arrive, Just like Sal sai, on Friday. What are the odds that UPS screws this up? If anyone has any advice how to handle UPS, please give it. The package was insured BUT there is more than money that i am out of. This is going to stress my monday date. Should I bring this up with them and how long does it take to get my money back?

And to Sal I say that I am sorry for the stress that I showed here, but there were some weird coincidences and I should not be held to blame too much. to all my new friends out there, especially Jungle, thank you so much for the support and words when I was "bummin'". To the BOI and its "fabric" I say that I was wrong in my assesment of the general sway the BOI has taken recently

Final PAssage:
I have learned that the bad things swell and fester and take forever to go away while the good things are unnoticed. I will keep the post up for the others and now the UPS saga and post pics of my opening day. The glass guy came with our logo and window art work and it is just what I hoped that I would have 5 years ago.
 

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Vinny, I think that this is an actual example of the members of the BOI waiting around to see what happens. we WANT to know that it turns out okay. Heck, I would sure like to see a good half dozen glowing recommendations from new customers on here, and even a deal that goes wrong but gets handled RIGHT... If I saw all of this then the next time I saw a snake for sale from Upstate, I might actually consider buying it. So I WANT to hear that they did the right thing. I want to know that they've learned from mistakes and turned a new leaf and all of that. I DO believe it is possible to change. If I didn't, I wouldn't be a school teacher. I see the basic sort of change I'm talking about every school year. People can change and mature, and I'd like to believe it's not limited to teenagers.

Good luck with your grand opening, and please let us see pictures when you get the packages and assemble the racks and have everything put together.
 
imagine this lol ....

well like i told you Vinnie it does look like it was dropped in loading or possibly was stood up and knocked over and hit something to snap them like that( thats why i like Plywood myself lol it wont do that )i have never had to resolve a claim on merchandise with UPS thank god ... but i will say if there ANYTHING along the lines of Airborne .... in solving a claim of damage/ destruction like that it will more then likely be a fun process.Airborne either holds it there location for there inspectors to evaluate the damage or sends it to a large hub for them to look at it took me more then 6 months to get a claim settled with them of $1000.00 on a cage they crushed w/ a forklift lol and they had to "determine the cause of damage" even then i was only sent a check for $600.oo and a excuse that it wasnt packed to there standards ( 1" of foam packed on the product" but it had 3/4 foam but even that cant stop a runaway forklift lol . hopefully UPS has faster claims then Airborne does and it will be processed swiftly. Airborne states that there claim process can take upto 6 weeks to be settled, it took me 4 1/2 months of calling several times a week to get just over 1/2 my refund back. i still use them but have learned to double the insurance value on anything i insure so that when settled if need be i get what i wanted to start with lol .
keep us posted and cant wait to see the shop
 
Vinnie,

Good to know you received your merchandise. Sorry about the accident though. Is it covered by any type of insurance? With small packages you are automatically covered for $100 even if you don't buy insurance. How about such a large package?

Kindly.
 
Insurance

Thanx again all. Sal is sending me the insurance stuff. It was packed very well and really excellent looking cages., My second one is coming friday. What are the odds UPS can screw it up again.

To Shasheena, I am also a high school teacher and have seen many leaves change. That running back for the Cincinatti Bengals, Rudi Johson, was one of my students. The change in him was amazing. One day he just decided to take life more seriously and try to be a positive and not a negative. I would do business with Sal again, I do need another cage, and I would recommend him. I would also tell everyone out there to do business with whom you trust and use imput as a peripheral source.
 
The cages were high quality, packed properly and shipped as intended.
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It was packed very well and really excellent looking cages.
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I would do business with Sal again, I do need another cage, and I would recommend him.
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I can appreciate your optomistic attitude but don't you think you should assemble these cages before you give such a ringing endorsement?
How can you tell they are quality cages by looking at a few sheets of broken melamine through a tear in a box?
I hope they are everything you expect them to be but it seems a little premature to recommend Sal as someone to do business with.....especially considering his past and the fact that you haven't seen the finished product yet. I know everyone is shocked to see them actually ship a product and hopefully they'll continue to surprise us by handling this shipping problem quickly for you.
I wish you luck...this could be a very long process.
 
Thanks "High School Teacher"

I am also a high school teacher
I would also tell everyone out there to do business with whom you trust and use imput as a peripheral source.

"Imput"? No wonder our young people cannot spell...Thank you "High School Teacher" for proving to me that one of the main problems with education today is sub-standard teachers :)
Pete
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Hey..

I almost never post on threads unless i have something good to say, But i think you are WAY out of line Pete, one mis spelled word is no reason to say that! My mother is a high school teacher and i take offense to that comment! Also his spelling has nothing to do with this thread.



Thanks,
Jon
www.reptilemorphs.com
 
Apology

Jon:
You are correct. This had no place being posted in this thread as it does not address the issue. Let me apologize for going off topic.
Thanks,
Pete
 
Thanks for the apology Pete, weak though it was.

My own spelling leaves a lot to be desired. I've "taught" my work and my home computer to fix most of my misspellings. But I still make mistakes.

I teach MATH at the high school level. I do my best to get everything the kids see correct. AND I laugh with them when I make a mistake. (My most common one is to write a list of items, and I always seem to skip #4).

I work with troubled kids, I was a troubled kid when I was in high school. I dropped out. I'm in school to help others from making that mistake. A lot of my students are learning disabled... so am I. Dyslexia. I know some people use that as an excuse for poor grammar. I use it for occasionally inverting the letters, or sometimes using a 9 in the place of a p. (They are both sticks with circles attached).

Don't go blaming the education level of today's kids on the teachers. It is NOT the teacher's fault. It is NOT the parent's fault. It's a symptom of a society with problems. A many faceted problem with NO simple solution.

Our school secretary makes announcements over the PA system. Frequently she says "Today the LIEberry will be closed". I wince each time I hear it. Do I think that she's single-handedly responsible for the lack of ability in my students? Not on your life.

Sorry to keep going on but I just plain HATE it when people think there is a simple and easy solution to the troubles of today's youth. It isn't simple. I'm there to help. To love the kids unconditionally, even when they are jerks. To help them to see a bigger picture, and like any parent, to hope that age and maturity bring wisdom, to hope that they do not end up dead in the desert due to gang activity. I love my kids, I pray for them, I teach them, I befriend them. But damn it all, I'm not perfect.
 
Saheena

Hey there ,

first i applaud you for what you do , KUDOOS to you

Second if hes going to pick on someones spelling by all rights he probably should have tagged me lol.I think pretty much in EVERY thread i post theres 1/2 dozen gramitical errors lol and its probably some in this to or will be by the end of it:D See my problem is the "fingers go faster the the eye's" and by the time the eyes look to see what the fingers have done on thescreen the fingers have done hit "send" and well we know what that means ! dohhhhhhhhhh

Memebers< thats my most famous typo i think lol
lol i try to ALWAYS checkthat when i type it ... lol i guess it just feels sooooo goog typing the meme part lol its alll about me !
 
Sasheena

At the risk of extending the "off-topicness" off this thread, I would like to state for the record and in my defense that my original comments were intended as an "attempt" at humor (hence the :) at the end of my comments). I have apologized for going off topic and now apologize for offending anyone with my comments. I certainly applaud the hard-working, underpaid and dedicated teachers out there and am indebted to some from my school years. It is a noble profession and from what you say Sasheena you are a credit to it.
I will in the future promise to stay on topic and remember that humor is in the eye of the beholder:)
Humbly,
Pete
 
What's going on/Teachers

I like the comments. That's exactly why I was turned off to the BOI. It's too easy to cast stones from a great distance with a rag arm.

Now back to the events:

As some saw, the 1st cage arrived on time and of very nice quality. The UPS guy said it must have fallen (it was cracked in half). You can see the pic in my previous thread. I place the claim with UPS and they say their (oops there's my poor spelling again) sorry, but the shipper must claim and receive the check. I forwarded all that stuff to Sal [he will not come here and see it so I must forward it]. I haven't heard from him, but he is making another one. I think I will change my order to a smaller unit.

The 2nd unit should arrive tomorrow afternoon. I haven't been tracking it because the store has required much work. We just got in some hognoses and FWCs from Great Valley serpentarium and I had to rush to setup emergency housing. Thank God for sweater boxes and duct tape.
I really don't know where they are but I have no reason not to trust Sal, I am just scared of UPS. But what are the odds. I will post tomorrow afternoon.

I hope we all learned a lesson here (PETE!) until you actually know someone stay in the <font color="red">bull#@!#@</font>pen
 
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That picture was taken when they first arrived as evidence against UPS not in support of Sal. After I took the pictures, we opened it up more and took all the peices out.

I bought some cages from Reptile Housing Authority, whom I think make excellent melamine cages and they were definately comparable and even up a notch. RHA uses a very this board as bottom of each cage where these hd the same thick wood. Also, RHA leaves gaps inbetween the cages in a multi. Tha looks nice but is not as efficient in space and temp as the solid unit. They are both very nice.
 
Pete.... just for the record.... you wrote....

one of the main problems with education today is sub-standard teachers
Pete


the CORRECT phrase is.... ARE sub-standard teachers....

So what does THAT tell you??

People in glass houses??....
 
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