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Bad Guy Michelle R. Korvel - Do not sell to her !!!

Wow.

Always trust in the BOI to provide some entertainment, at least.

I would like to know the value of this transaction. Was it $1,000 in feeders? $5,000?

There's no proof that the product delivered was even remotely compromised or unsatisfactory.

Customers who are upright and honest don't do immediate chargebacks, or fly off the handle on Internet forums.

Michelle Korbel is a solid placement on the DO NOT SELL list.
 
The only evidence I see, is what Michelle has written herself ... she has shown that she is a possible liar (I don't by the trooper story), a thief (received product, by her own word and did not pay for them), prone to fly off the handle and generally someone I would NOT do business with.

Her words are a prime example of what NOT to do, when confronted with an issue. :ack2:
 
And it goes on and on and on.

First and formost. Has anybody ever dealt with a case where a buyer/seller were in different states? I think not because nobody has posted the obvious.
You cannot pursue on either ends a charge of theft or any charge that may or may not have been committed here without going to the state in which the sale was mad. Tigerlily lives in New York or somewhere around there. Mice direct is in GA. So what happens if charges want to be pressed on either end. Tiger has to travel all the way to GA or MD has to call the police. Either way it's not work the hassle. Second. You tigerlily have lied on this site about our last name, you location and multiple other things. That will get you banned from the site. And even if your profile is gone, this forum will still be here. Your calls to the state troop would have resulted in this. Sorry ma'am but we cannot help you. You will have to talk to the GA police. Wanna know why, the transaction was made in GA since Mice direct was the seller. Why would MD want to call you 50+ times in 10 mins over what 50-200 $$$? I think that BS. I have not personally done business with MD but I know plenty of people that do. And never once in what almost 10 years have I heard one bad thing about there mice. Also last, a rodent facility has standards they have to meet to even be able to sell rodents. Atleast RodentPro does. Not to sure on MD. But if these standards are in place with MD, then there is no way they would have intentionally shipped you a box full of "bad" rodents. I would think more along the lines of them going bad durin shipping or your just feeding a bunch of BS to everybody. What you did was theft. Like it or not. Your the person in the wrong tiger lily. Not MD. Enough said
 
And it goes on and on and on.

My apologies on my bad spelling. My phone sucks sometimes with this auto correct stuff
 
So far you have stated that you will not be posting because you where instructed not to and you have posted more than anyone else. But besides that no law enforcement agency is going to tell you not to speak about it your lawyer may but not a state trooper. They don't even handle that type of investigation. Second speaking on here of a experience is what it's all about. So when Heath posted about his experience he was with in his every right to do so. Now to educate you slander is a spoken statement stating a false term that could cost you your lively hood in the short deff. Now what Heath did was he typed it which would be considered libel if he stated any thing that could cost you your job. All he said is that not to sell to you. No harm in that and no harm in speaking your experiences.
 
Dead beat.... tracking should be all that is needed . And the cops are laughing at you
They can't do nothing for a civil case. Maybe you should retain a lawyer or maybe they
take cash. Lol.. pay mice direct there going to charge us more
to make up for your loss.
 
Mice Direct said:
I am Heath Biggers with Mice Direct. Michelle R. Korvel Purchased frozen feeders from us in November 2013 and FedEx confirms they were delivered. She charged back her card and will not answer phone calls or emails from us.
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TigerLily315 said:
John finally decided to contact me after I made the dispute, never did he return any of my calls before hand. The original contact you quoted, was the day I received the feeders. I contacted him after seeing the billing statement and noticed he over charged me when he guaranteed another price. This is what set him into his temper tantrum and told me "That's how a business is ran", proceeded to call me childish and hang up. Several attempts were made to contact him about the feeders being nasty, he refused to return any communications... that is until he noticed a charge back. .
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Via PM, the buyer has written what is her description of the feeders she received from Mice Direct:

"The feeders were beyond bad (black tummy, horrible smell (not the typical smell, smelled like something you'd find in your garage that has been there for days!), the majority of feeders were covered in urine and feces, etc)."

I cannot imagine in such a dispute not taking pictures or keeping the feeders as evidence.
 
Did she say anything about the packaging? I've ordered from MD and they always shipped in an insulated box with plenty of dry ice. The feeders were still very solidly frozen when they arrived.
 
Melinda, there does nor appear to be any description of the packaging. To me, the lack of communication between the parties is hampering any type of explanation. The seller might have sent perfectly good feeders out, or might not, but there is an information/fact gap between the time the feeders were received and the time the condition of the feeders seems to have been discovered two weeks later. If the parties discussed all this perhaps answers and solutions might be found, but when people don't talk to each other, that does not help facilitate agreement and understanding.

Below is our conversation, Michelle's words are in blue. I edited out one word which I felt was not appropriate.


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If he has been trying to contact you, you should have given him the courtesy of hearing him out. I do not believe you about the 'agencies', provide the names. Most of the time, everyone is happy if the two parties communicate and come to an agreement.

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If you were looking for details, they are as follows:

I purchased feeders directly from John Callaham, they were received 3 days later. I noticed on my bill that he charged me more then our original agreed upon price. I placed a call to him where he told me "This is how a business is ran" called me childish and proceeded to hang up.I attempted to use the feeders approximately 2 weeks later. Once the feeders were thawed out, their bellies were charcoal black and had the most foul smell. I contacted John and left a message for him to return my call on 3 separate occasions (none of which were returned). I proceeded to thaw out another batch (11 feeders from a different bag that were also a different size) with the same results, none of my snakes would touch the feeders.

I tried to contact John once again with no response, so I went to my bank to dispute the charge. With no call back from John, I threw the feeders in the garbage and ordered from a different company.

John has since (since the dispute) been willing to try and contact me, which I've been informed by several agencies not to reply to him. On 11/29, John called my personal phone 53x in a matter of 10 minutes (I have a app downloaded on my phone that will hang up on that person as soon as the call is placed, hence the reason so many were accomplished in a short period), also sent several emails threatening to release my personal information to the public, etc.



Any questions, feel free to ask.

Some details may have been missed, as I have been doing clinicals all week and Im pretty fried.
He did NOT try to contact me until I made the dispute. I made several attempts to contact John, left more than 3 messages at the company number and also gave him more than 2 weeks to respond. He contacted me 2 weeks after the dispute was made. I was informed by the branch manager of my bank to cease communication with the company (State Troopers say it is a civil claim, but he was BEYOND harassing, even after asked to stop. He was informed by Visa not to contact me until the matter is resolved) now because it is in the hands of the Visa company. They will make the final decision with what information they have.
Assuming what you are saying is true, the fact that he posted here was NOT contacting you. YOU contacted HIM by answering this thread.
The fact that is was NOT John Callaham himself posting this thread, it is not classified as contacting him. I have the legal right to defend my name once it is placed in a public forum. I have NEVER dealt with Heath nor do I even know who this person is.
And, despite your many pissy replies about printing out stuff, either of the other parties as well as readers have the legal right to post their opinions about this situation, about your allegations and lack of proof and their opinions on your general approach.
No disrespect to you, but, I could care less what they or anyone else thinks of me, nor trying to do to my "name". Nothing could be any worse than my ex husband trying to put me 6 feet under.

I have every right to be defensive, my name is being called into question on a PUBLIC forum for everyone to see and try to judge what they dont know. They figure because it's a business, they are IMMEDIATELY right in the situation and I'm wrong.

The fact of the matter, I tried, several times. It didnt have to come to this conclusion. John made the choice be demanding he be right and not try to rectify the situation. So, now it's my fault because I did the right thing.

Being defensive is a natural response when you have a group of people on a forum bashing someone they don't know. Am I supposed to stay sweet and kiss ? It's not possible.

I by no way am directing any of this toward you, if I sound nasty in any of my responses, I apologize. It's not meant to be, I'm just beyond frustrated with this whole situation, they have taken it WAY to far.
Reread your posts. You need not be sweet, but you are coming off as the opposite, have provided no proof, no description on the thread about why the feeders were unsatisfactory, and then you would not talk to them when they tried to call, they may have been trying to find out exactly what was going on.
You apparently have proof of calls, do you have emails or texts? Post them.
I'm not understanding how posting screen shots of the numerous calls will prove anything in my case. That will just prove the harassment. I'm a very private person and do not like when other people jump into a situation that had nothing to do with them to begin with. Hence me coming off as a ***** (sorry for the language, only speaking the truth)

The feeders were beyond bad (black tummy, horrible smell (not the typical smell, smelled like something you'd find in your garage that has been there for days!), the majority of feeders were covered in urine and feces, etc).

So, not only am I dealing with this thread, schooling, clinicals, sick family member, etc. I can't make every stranger happy on a forum. As I said in my prior message, I can't worry about what the people of the forum think. I have more improtant things to worry about. So, if they all want to judge a complete stranger and side with MiceDirect, then so be it. It's not any worse than my past.
Everyone has difficulties and stresses in their lives. If you are not going to address questions and concerns of the readers here, perhaps you should not have posted at all. It is a business forum. To take the time to put readers down and then not take the time address their concerns certainly sends a message.
Once Visa is finished with the dispute, I would be MORE than happy to post EVERYTHING to show how shady this company is. At this time, I have other things to worry about then my name being trashed.
 
I dont know. Maybe I'm getting to old and cranky for this b.s I've seen less drama in murder cases. That being said, Just reading TigerLily315 bile makes me not ever want to deal with her even if she is in the right, Which I doubt.
 
At this point, I could care less about INFRACTIONS, ban me from the site. I have other things to worry about then what RANDOM people think. The reason it took me 2 weeks to break into the feeders, I still had frozen feeders from a local supplier. For you inbreds claiming to be the best detectives out there, no one ASSUMED that reason. Don't do business with me, I don't give a flying fuck anymore.

Nothing anyone says here will change the outcome nor the fact that John Callaham is the reason this problem even exists. Out of the hundreds of purchases I've made online, he is the only childish fool I've EVER had a problem. Say what you want, it means ABSOLUTELY nothing to me! Good day!
 
Michelle, do you have any copies of the repeated attempts you made to contact the seller? If you post something...ANYTHING that will back up what you're saying everyone might be more sympathetic to your side of things. I know you don't care, or give a flying **ck or whatever, but some of us might want to know if we should or should not do business with the seller, so could you please post some evidence to back up your claim? Please?
 
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Michelle, do you have any copies of the repeated attempts you made to contact the seller? If you post something...ANYTHING that will back up what you're saying everyone might be more sympathetic to your side of things. I know you don't care, or give a flying **ck or whatever, but some of us might want to know if we should or should not do business with the seller, so could you please post some evidence to back up your claim? Please?
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Once I get copies from the phone company (s), both cell and house phone, I will definitely provide that information. That would show all of the attempts made to contact him without response, BEFORE the dispute was made with my bank.

Another thing I forgot to mention, for all to dwell on. John Callaham is DEMANDING more money than the original purchase. Go figure, and I'm the thief.:yesnod:
 
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