Stephen Barger
Full Member
Hello, everyone. My name is Stephen Barger. I live in Newport News, VA. Some of you may remember me. I signed up in 2002, and for a brief few months sold snakes on this site. I eventually grew to KS as well, and was shipping ~40-50 snakes a week via these two sites. Some of you may remember I had a house fire in May 2002. I promised to get back into selling as soon as I moved back into my house. Unfortunately , life doesn't always work as planned, and I never got back into selling. I am once again attempting to do this now, as I am scouting locations for a retail shop to work out of. Details will be forthcoming if I do get back into wholesaling or retailing.
This post is not about my old/new/future plans. This is about Jason Stone.
Please forgive the length of this post, but I do feel it is necessary to post the entire story here, not bits and pieces. I too often see BOI posts that only have tid bits, and you can't make a complete judgement.
Starting around April 2002, I started a number of dealings with a Mr. Jason Stone out of (at that point Indiana). I believe this may be the same Jason Stone listed in this BOI thread : http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/for...&perpage=5&highlight=jason stone&pagenumber=1
It sounds just like him.
He and I got along well. He seemed to be a nice enough guy. He sold and traded me some animals. I sold and traded him some animals. All was great. Or so I thought.
On May 22 , 2002 I had a house fire. I lost pretty much all of my animals, there were a few survivors, but not many. On May 25, 2002, I got access through work to the internet, and came on this site, and posted a notice that I was out of business due to a house fire. (see link). http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=475&highlight=Stephen+Barger
At that time I emailed a number of suppliers I got animals from, and a number of customers telling them I would either no longer purchase/sell to them, or to make arrangements to refund monies owed.
I owed Jason Stone nothing. No animals, no cash. All dealings had been completed, but we had discussed possible future dealings. I emailed him to let him know that the future dealings were off.. at least temporarily. I explained why. He emailed me back, stating he understood and offering great emotiional support. What a nice guy... yeah.. thats it.
During the Time of May 22-Sept 5th or so I did not get any USPS mail due to the fire and being out of the house. We had mail stopped, and held at the post office, to be delivered upon moving back into the house in September 2002.
On May 25th, I called Airborne Express, my shipper of choice at the time. I talked to billing, and asked them to suspend my account, and send me a full listing of all monies owed to them. I explained about the fire. They agreed to do so, and agreed to even waive payments until I got back into my house (I faxed a notorized letter to them confirming the fire).
In September I moved back into the house. I had owed Airborne around $500. I had invoices from them totalling around $1908.56. I called them back, and asked where these charges had come from. I explained that the account was suspended in May. They said it had never been suspended. They said it had been used to date as late as 3 or 4 days prior to me calling them then.
I advised I had not authorized any usage of the account since May 25. They agreed to send me a item by item listing of every shipment on the account.
It turns out my 'friend' or my 'associate' or whatever Jason Stone had completed some ~$1400 worth of unauthorized shipments via my acct. He had gotten the email from me stating that I wasn't in business anymore, and that I wasn't able to recieve mail. I assume he knew the inner workings of Airborne, (as he had an airborne acct according to billing).
See Airborne at that time listed the shippers acct number on the shipping lable .. even to the point the recipient could see the acct number.
I called Airborne's billing Dept back upon reciept of the itemized list. I told them that I had suspended the acct in May, and that these were fraudulant shipments that were not authorized by me. They forwarded me to Airborne's Legal Dept.
They agreed to contact Mr. Stone (which was no easy task.. he had listed some 15 or so phone numbers and addresses on the invoices), both at his parents, his house, his girlfriends, and a number of other places.
According to the Legal Dept of Airborne Express, as of October 2002 that Jason had agreed to pay the full amounts for the shipments he had done, and that they did not wish to pursue legal action with him, as they just desired the due monies. They agreed again to send an updated invoice, and for me to pay my portion once I recieved the corrected invoice.
As of November 2002, he had not paid, and they finally told me to just pay my portion.. there was a lot more mix up between me and airborne, as everytime they sent a corrected invoice, they never fully corrected it. In January 2003, I finally paid Airborne a total of $897 (remember my original due amount was only around $500). I had had enough of them, and I told them at that time I would never ship through them again. I ate the loss.
The point of the story, is that Jason Stone from May until September 2002, made a number of shipments on my airborne acct with NO authorization to do so. He rang up my acct with some $1400+ worth of shipments with no agreement to do so. I have emailed Jason on a couple occassions since this time, and there has been no response to date.
I no longer have the email addresses I did at that time, and no longer have the emails that I sent him (had to reload computer after virus last year). But I do have as proof some 50 pages or so of Acct bills from Airborne.
This is not slander, I posses plenty of evidence if needbe to support this.
Please AVOID JASON STONE! He has proven to be a dishonest person, and I suspect he is the same Jason Stone (ReptoMania) that as of June 2003 was located in Lomita California.
It sounds like him.. BUT if this is not the same guy, I am truely sorry for the connection, but the names and the characters match.. so?
Thanks for taking the time to read this lengthy post. Please forgive the excess length, but I feel it is necessarry to get the whole story out, not just part of it.
Stephen Barger
Newport News, VA
[email protected]
This post is not about my old/new/future plans. This is about Jason Stone.
Please forgive the length of this post, but I do feel it is necessary to post the entire story here, not bits and pieces. I too often see BOI posts that only have tid bits, and you can't make a complete judgement.
Starting around April 2002, I started a number of dealings with a Mr. Jason Stone out of (at that point Indiana). I believe this may be the same Jason Stone listed in this BOI thread : http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/for...&perpage=5&highlight=jason stone&pagenumber=1
It sounds just like him.
He and I got along well. He seemed to be a nice enough guy. He sold and traded me some animals. I sold and traded him some animals. All was great. Or so I thought.
On May 22 , 2002 I had a house fire. I lost pretty much all of my animals, there were a few survivors, but not many. On May 25, 2002, I got access through work to the internet, and came on this site, and posted a notice that I was out of business due to a house fire. (see link). http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=475&highlight=Stephen+Barger
At that time I emailed a number of suppliers I got animals from, and a number of customers telling them I would either no longer purchase/sell to them, or to make arrangements to refund monies owed.
I owed Jason Stone nothing. No animals, no cash. All dealings had been completed, but we had discussed possible future dealings. I emailed him to let him know that the future dealings were off.. at least temporarily. I explained why. He emailed me back, stating he understood and offering great emotiional support. What a nice guy... yeah.. thats it.
During the Time of May 22-Sept 5th or so I did not get any USPS mail due to the fire and being out of the house. We had mail stopped, and held at the post office, to be delivered upon moving back into the house in September 2002.
On May 25th, I called Airborne Express, my shipper of choice at the time. I talked to billing, and asked them to suspend my account, and send me a full listing of all monies owed to them. I explained about the fire. They agreed to do so, and agreed to even waive payments until I got back into my house (I faxed a notorized letter to them confirming the fire).
In September I moved back into the house. I had owed Airborne around $500. I had invoices from them totalling around $1908.56. I called them back, and asked where these charges had come from. I explained that the account was suspended in May. They said it had never been suspended. They said it had been used to date as late as 3 or 4 days prior to me calling them then.
I advised I had not authorized any usage of the account since May 25. They agreed to send me a item by item listing of every shipment on the account.
It turns out my 'friend' or my 'associate' or whatever Jason Stone had completed some ~$1400 worth of unauthorized shipments via my acct. He had gotten the email from me stating that I wasn't in business anymore, and that I wasn't able to recieve mail. I assume he knew the inner workings of Airborne, (as he had an airborne acct according to billing).
See Airborne at that time listed the shippers acct number on the shipping lable .. even to the point the recipient could see the acct number.
I called Airborne's billing Dept back upon reciept of the itemized list. I told them that I had suspended the acct in May, and that these were fraudulant shipments that were not authorized by me. They forwarded me to Airborne's Legal Dept.
They agreed to contact Mr. Stone (which was no easy task.. he had listed some 15 or so phone numbers and addresses on the invoices), both at his parents, his house, his girlfriends, and a number of other places.
According to the Legal Dept of Airborne Express, as of October 2002 that Jason had agreed to pay the full amounts for the shipments he had done, and that they did not wish to pursue legal action with him, as they just desired the due monies. They agreed again to send an updated invoice, and for me to pay my portion once I recieved the corrected invoice.
As of November 2002, he had not paid, and they finally told me to just pay my portion.. there was a lot more mix up between me and airborne, as everytime they sent a corrected invoice, they never fully corrected it. In January 2003, I finally paid Airborne a total of $897 (remember my original due amount was only around $500). I had had enough of them, and I told them at that time I would never ship through them again. I ate the loss.
The point of the story, is that Jason Stone from May until September 2002, made a number of shipments on my airborne acct with NO authorization to do so. He rang up my acct with some $1400+ worth of shipments with no agreement to do so. I have emailed Jason on a couple occassions since this time, and there has been no response to date.
I no longer have the email addresses I did at that time, and no longer have the emails that I sent him (had to reload computer after virus last year). But I do have as proof some 50 pages or so of Acct bills from Airborne.
This is not slander, I posses plenty of evidence if needbe to support this.
Please AVOID JASON STONE! He has proven to be a dishonest person, and I suspect he is the same Jason Stone (ReptoMania) that as of June 2003 was located in Lomita California.
It sounds like him.. BUT if this is not the same guy, I am truely sorry for the connection, but the names and the characters match.. so?
Thanks for taking the time to read this lengthy post. Please forgive the excess length, but I feel it is necessarry to get the whole story out, not just part of it.
Stephen Barger
Newport News, VA
[email protected]
