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Bad Guy Jamarius Wallace "jaminthecity"

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I will attempt to keep this short and simple. If after reading, anyone needs to see further proof, like emails between buyer/seller, photos of DOA, phone records, anything of that nature that you would like to see, please feel free to ask and I will get that info. To each of you who ask personally, ASAP........


What happened here was a seller by the name of "jaminthecity", real name Jamarius Wallace, from Northern Virginia, sold and sent me 2 Nile monitor lizards and agreed to ship regular preferred method of FedEx Priority Overnight. After taking quite a while to actually ship, this guy put these 2 baby lizards inside of a cricket-keeper sized container(approx. 8x8x6) with zero support, no paper within this little section, allowing both lizards total free-play and the ability to flip around throughout transit and the possibility of getting injured... Surrounding this container was some newspaper and then the plain, uninsulated cardboard box to close around that. Zero heat packs even though shipping was from a cool state to another cool state. The air holes placed on the outside cardboard were gigantic, allowing huge amounts of outdoor air to come inside. Above all this, this seller shipped USPS Express, for less than half the shipping money that I paid in the first place!! To make a long story short, I ran to my post office and picked this package up before 10am, the second they arrived to my local USPS facility. Once I opened the package, I immediately noticed how cold it was inside! Both animals lay motionless, their bodies hard as a rock, very cold. I took all appropriate measures and after warming them up a bit, I came to notice how both had suffered easily visible back breaks, at that point, appearing in pain and not able to move the lower half of their bodies. By the end of that night, both had already passed away. I immediately contacted seller several times and stayed in constant contact. He has nothing to say to me and is now starting to ignore me of late. This is totally unnecessary, upsetting and wrong! He will Not give me a refund, or replacement animals shipped more professionally, nothing. His lack of maturity makes me even wonder if the photos sent to me before the initial purchase were fakes and perhaps the injuries occurred before shipping even happened, who knows?! Or... Maybe he abuses these poor little animals?! Guess we will never know! All I can do is make people aware. If anyone is ever unfortunate to come into contact with this newbie, I urge you to think twice. It's just not worth it with this seller no matter how good the deal is! Thanks everyone for your time and allowing me to vent. Perhaps some of you would like to send this guy a PM and see what he's up to! If not, I understand why you may not want to become involved. I don't expect to see him respond on here, simply because he is 100% wrong with this one and I don't think he is stupid enough to lie in this matter. But, by all means, if it makes you(my fellow helpers) more likely to believe and trust what I am saying is fact, total truth... Then by all means, let us invite that piece of trash on here and see what happens. :angry:
 
I am sorry to hear that. I wonder why some people are shipping horribly as of late. Can you post emails, photos of the animals and anything else you have? Also sending a link to the Seller so they can state their side. Shipping USPS is against SYR's rules for one. Do you know if they use SYR?
 
Oh! And photo's of the packaging. Did you tape the unboxing of the animals? It is always validating proof of how they arrived. Some people do that to insure accuracy.
 
I will attempt to keep this short and simple. If after reading, anyone needs to see further proof, like emails between buyer/seller, photos of DOA, phone records, anything of that nature that you would like to see, please feel free to ask and I will get that info. To each of you who ask personally, ASAP........

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I would suggest posting all your proof here instead of individually to each person who asks for it. Just tends to be normal BOI protocol
 
To each of you who ask personally, ASAP........

But, by all means, if it makes you(my fellow helpers) more likely to believe and trust what I am saying is fact, total truth... Then by all means, let us invite that piece of trash on here and see what happens. :angry:
Posting your supporting information HERE, in this thread, will be the best way to present your case against him. If it's as clear-cut as you're implying, it'll do the most damage out in the open, where everyone can see it. Some things you may want to post: Screenshots of the ad or whatever email states that he's claiming to be sending it FedEx, as well as a photograph of the shipping label on the box to show that it was sent USPS. Before and after pictures. Provide us with whatever pictures may have been sent to you before making the purchase, as well as your own pictures that show the actual condition in which they arrived (visible back breaks).


Shipping USPS is against SYR's rules for one. Do you know if they use SYR?
What, exactly, would SYR's TOS have to do with a scenario where USPS was used to ship?
 
It's interesting I just now see this.
I offered him replacement in Nile Monitors as I can show in screenshots and he declined them. o_O
 
So was it one lizard, or two?

http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/forums/showthread.php?t=368197

You also made no mention there of "easily visible back breaks".

Not accusing anyone of anything, just looking for some clarification.

The OP had posted 3 separate threads regarding the issue. Thread #1, Thread #2, Thread #3. All of which mention a "friend" sending him "a" juvenile Nile monitor that arrived half-frozen. I don't recall seeing any specific mention of visible back breaks in any of his threads, nor any mention of an actual transaction having taken place. While he apparently didn't feel the need to post anything tangible that'd support his claims, he did manage to find the time to post 2 new Wanted ads today, looking for more Nile monitors. Between the seeming inconsistency of the number of lizards involved, his hesitance to publicly post proof, and the odd little fact that someone seems to have some reason to think his name's actually Shannon, I'm getting a bad vibe about the guy. Some clarification definitely seems to be in order.

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If need be I will present any information to prove my innocence, I have emails, photos, and everything to present my casing. Thank you.
 
Of course I have plenty of pictures of the chat and everything I can prove so you all know I'm not a scammer.


SnakeLover188 said:
After taking quite a while to actually ship, this guy put these 2 baby lizards inside of a cricket-keeper sized container(approx. 8x8x6) with zero support, no paper within this little section, allowing both lizards total free-play and the ability to flip around throughout transit and the possibility of getting injured... Surrounding this container was some newspaper and then the plain, uninsulated cardboard box to close around that. Zero heat packs even though shipping was from a cool state to another cool state. The air holes placed on the outside cardboard were gigantic, allowing huge amounts of outdoor air to come inside.
Is this an accurate description of how you shipped the monitors?
SnakeLover188 said:
Above all this, this seller shipped USPS Express, for less than half the shipping money that I paid in the first place!!

Did you charge him for FedEx shipping while using USPS?
 
He paid for USPS shipping, I have emails of how much he paid and what we came to an agreement too AS WELL as what he said was fine and not fine, I followed HIS shipping instructions as stated in the email.
 
I did receive photos of DOA, yet when asked to reimburse him with new Nile Monitors he declined and said he was going to post a negative report, which leads us to this incident.
 
DOA W/ back breaks...

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