Bad Guy mike fields is a horrible business man

[Junkyard]

I noticed you took care of the threads that you see as not being legitimate. A couple you wish you could redo that you learned from. I am currently reading this one that is full of many problems:

Rainforest Reptiles in Florida - BAD DEAL - STAY AWAY

This one you sold unhealthy and mis-sexed animals:

Rainforest Reptiles----BAD DEAL

You continually complain about Ravensgait, yet you sent an animal that could not survive one night in his home, did you send it out for a morning delivery? I still have that unanswered question in that thread (also Tosha mentions the mis-sexed snake you sent):

Rainforest Reptiles

How about getting to the legitimate issues. You are irritated that an inquiry about you goes bad, yet you did not resolve the issues that caused the thread to go bad.

 

[daniellesgeckos]

Right. Just trying one small step at a time.

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Thanks Danielle Fields

 

[Ken Harbart]

This thread is very much about Dan too. If he was done wrong by the thread starter then I want to hear what he has to say.

Well hoss, this ain't Burger King, so you don't get it your way.

Is the subject of the thread Dan Solaro? No.

Is the subject of the thread Mike Fields? Yes.

End of discussion.

 

[Bill Stonegate]

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Thanks Danielle Fields

I was simply trying to say that the ACTUAL AUTHOR of the post (i.e. Mike ,Danielle, or whomever) needs to sign his\her name to each post, and if he\she has a problem remembering to do that simple thing, than his\her chances of dealing with the more complex issues at hand won't be very good.

 

[daniellesgeckos]

When someone inquires as to if anyone knows anything about you, they have a right to know about your previous dealings. Simply giving people that information is not an attack in any way, shape, or form.

Even if you seem to think that only having a "few" bad deals is some kind of miraculous feat of outstanding business practices, it is how you handle those bad deals that truly shows what kind of a businessman you are. And you blew it.

But you're right, I DO have something against you.

I am sick of people who come into this hobby/business only to make money, and the animals end up suffering because of it. You have lied to and ripped off more than a fair share of people, and you can go back now and make up whatever kind of story you want to try to cover it up to make it right, but unless you have some kind of proof, I don't believe a word you say.

You can claim all you want that you began this business because you love animals....but when animals are dying because of your stupidity and negligence, you should realize that perhaps you'd be better suited to selling something that doesn't have to suffer....like pet rocks.

Listen I do not have a problem if you want to surface a few links on what you have read or something from personal experience. However I do have a problem with just making rude comments expecialy when you have never done business with me. What ever happen to benifit of the doubt? or innocent until proven guilty. I thought the point of this BOI is for a person to share their experience and if a dealer felt he was getting the raw end of the stick he could ad his two cents in and maybe they will get to the bottom of the problem. Out of all those threads started about me only 2 or maybe three actually proved their case. What I mean by that they provided proper e-mail and or pics with dates etc. Everyone else is either just claims with no proof or just inqiures. You have been prepared to sling me up over a couple of deals that went bad. I have been selling reptiles online professionaly for 4-5 years and in those 4-5 years we will just say that I have done 50 deals in each year well that is a very low number but I would like to remain conservative in this example. well that is 200-250 deals within that time period. I have 5 complaints 2 or 3 which actually proved their case. Now I do not know the exact % that is but I am sure it is pretty low. Yet you have me written off as a bad dealer? That does not make since. 1 out of the three that proved their case tought us how to ship animals properly. We changed everything about our shipping from that point on an shipped animals the right way. 1 out of the three got their money back and yes the other I should have just given her what ever she wanted. I refuse to give money back to someone just because they made a aqiusation on this site. I do not like being pushed around and I refuse to pay someone because they tried to blackmail me.

To anser your other claim in this thread bassed on what you have read on here you can not form a opinion on weather or not my husband and I are in the business for the money or just the animals. Just another mean and hatefull thing you could ad in your response. Like stressed to you before you do not know me or my husband personally and from what I have read from you on here not only in my threads but in other I would never want to know you either. Yo are rude very rarely have a nice thing to say to anyone.



You have absolutely no proof that animals have died due to my negligence. Even in the begining when we made shipments the wrong way none of those animals died during the shipment. Just another claim that you have no proof for. Question did someone hurt you in the past or something? I think you will be ok if you relax a little. You seem to have a angry streak.


Thanks Danielle Fields

 

[daniellesgeckos]

I was simply trying to say that the ACTUAL AUTHOR of the post (i.e. Mike ,Danielle, or whomever) needs to sign his\her name to each post, and if he\she has a problem remembering to do that simple thing, than his\her chances of dealing with the more complex issues at hand won't be very good.

Have you not been paying attention? since our warning to do so we have done exactly that. We were sighning the two of us but now just each writer. Thank you for your concern.

Danielle Fields

 

[daniellesgeckos]

I noticed you took care of the threads that you see as not being legitimate. A couple you wish you could redo that you learned from. I am currently reading this one that is full of many problems:

Rainforest Reptiles in Florida - BAD DEAL - STAY AWAY

This one you sold unhealthy and mis-sexed animals:

Rainforest Reptiles----BAD DEAL

You continually complain about Ravensgait, yet you sent an animal that could not survive one night in his home, did you send it out for a morning delivery? I still have that unanswered question in that thread (also Tosha mentions the mis-sexed snake you sent):

Rainforest Reptiles

How about getting to the legitimate issues. You are irritated that an inquiry about you goes bad, yet you did not resolve the issues that caused the thread to go bad.

Yea my husband was doing a best for last kind of thing. He will be addressing those very soon.

Thanks, Danielle Fields

 

[daniellesgeckos]

Well hoss, this ain't Burger King, so you don't get it your way.

Is the subject of the thread Dan Solaro? No.

Is the subject of the thread Mike Fields? Yes.

End of discussion.

OK you win....LOL!

Thanks Danielle Fields

 

[Dennis Hultman]

Case #8
Thread starter vferra 1-28-2007 states that we shipped him two captive born white lip pythons. 1 of which arrived with mouth rot. At first he questioned weather or not they were captive born but fecal results proved other wise. Then he says he gave 1 ml of baytril to the small snake to help treat the mouth rot. Now anyone who know's anything about treating a snake that size knows that is to much and he easily overdosed this animal and did it for three days. The snake died on the third day. Here is the part that Vinny does not tell the BOI on the day he recieved these snakes he tells me that the smaller one arrived dead. For some reason that struck me as strange and because he brought up the BOI before he actually made his purchase we decided to check the forum and on their we read his first post which mentions nothing about the snake being dead. This is why I got so upset in this case.

This guy is a prime example of a customer blackmailing a company by using the BOI and because we do not blackmail well we told him to go screw himself.

I’m reading the thread he started. You stated that he told you the little one died on arrival? Which is completely different from what he posted. I don’t know but I think if I was the seller, I would have been on here ASAP with that big of a discrepancy.

http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/forums/showthread.php?t=94893

Afterwards, he later posted in another thread that you agreed to take care of him even after the original post (if I read his statement correctly). Are you stating you did not agree to take care of him after he already started that thread?

What is your stated policy to your customers in regards to health guarantee?
How long do they have to report a problem? What is your sex guarantee?

Also about the same time several people came forward to state you sent a wrongly sexed animal. One was also another white lip. Also someone stated that the gecko you sent died. In the posts, each person stated that you would not contact them or respond to emails. In another thread someone stated you would give them a credit on there next order for a wrongly sexed animal but several have stated no contact once they reported problems.

The Species US Threads.
It is good to see that you are taking responsibility for the shipping conditions and admit that you were in the wrong. You stated so back then as well and also stated you would change your methods. Four months later a couple of people came forward afterwards to state the shipping conditions didn't change. That was after you had stated that you would fix it.

 

[daniellesgeckos]

I’m reading the thread he started. You stated that he told you the little one died on arrival? Which is completely different from what he posted. I don’t know but I think if I was the seller, I would have been on here ASAP with that big of a discrepancy.

http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/forums/showthread.php?t=94893

Afterwards, he later posted in another thread that you agreed to take care of him even after the original post (if I read his statement correctly). Are you stating you did not agree to take care of him after he already started that thread?

What is your stated policy to your customers in regards to health guarantee?
How long do they have to report a problem? What is your sex guarantee?

Also about the same time several people came forward to state you sent a wrongly sexed animal. One was also another white lip. Also someone stated that the gecko you sent died. In the posts, each person stated that you would not contact them or respond to emails. In another thread someone stated you would give them a credit on there next order for a wrongly sexed animal but several have stated no contact once they reported problems.

The Species US Threads.
It is good to see that you are taking responsibility for the shipping conditions and admit that you were in the wrong. You stated so back then as well and also stated you would change your methods. Four months later a couple of people came forward afterwards to state the shipping conditions didn't change. That was after you had stated that you would fix it.

When he called me to tell me one had died I told him then I would take care of it but the more I thought about it the more something did not ad up or I had that gut feeling so I checked Fauna. I saw this thread and I waited to see what his next move would be. I kept it to my self about the thread but wanted to see what he would say if I told him that I was not replacing the animal. The next words that came out of him mouth was fine then I will start a thread about you on Fauna (blackmail) I then and only then told him that we knew he started a thread already he then wrote stateing that he had become a fauna junky is I think what he refered to in the thread but anyway he began to retrack staements and everything else. At the time I could careless what you people thought so I stayed silent. My only mistake and I have said that already.

Was it several people or one or two who stated that our shipping hadnt changed and I can assure you it had done a 360. When we were first brought up about our shipping. I shipped this poor snake in a USPS box and through USPS no styro and no heat pack just a bag and box. No one from this point on could or have made a claim that we have shipped something that way again. If I remember correctly it was exactly 6 packages that were shipped this way described above and 1 or 2 wrote on Fauna. This was four years ago again I have made a living selling reptiles through kingsnake.com for four years and their is only 2 claims of shipping this way. However I believe I read one guy say we forgot to put the bottom styro in the box. This may have also been true a mistake but notice something very different. No USPS box no USPS shipping and their was styro involved and a heat pack. I would say that is proof that our shipping methods have changed up to that point. I also remeber reading something about a guy who claimed his chameleons were switched on him but when asked to show a pic or something to prove it he then can't come up with a pic and also has the nerve to bring up their was no heat pack in the box. When I know for a fact their was because it was our first winter we ever shipped through and I put the heat pack between the chameleons in the box and not underneith them or above them like we have done ever other year. This si the same guy who wrote us a e-mail stateing he loved the animals and thank you so much and then comments on this thread a month and half later. I addressed this in the same thread.

As far as mis sexed animals I would say sure it is a possability and I would replace if that is what the customer wanted. Accidents do happen and when you move the volume of animals we move it is very possable to sex a few animals wrong but in no way shape or form does this prove me to be a bad guy. Just because people have not come back into that thread to state that I have taken care of them does not mean it has not happened. I would much rather handle everything right over the phone I think it is more personable this way.


Thanks, Mike Fields

 

[Bill Stonegate]

I have been working my way through the other "bad guy" threads on RR.

I am not really familiar with these people, or this company, so I have an open mind.

My initial thought is, "Why didn't they deal with their issues at the time?" These threads go back for years.

Now, they want to come here and "clear the air" all in one swell foop?

Honestly, it would be cool if they could; a definite happy ending to another BOI drama.

My mind is still open, but they have a lot of work cut out for them.

In the words of a well known Cuban, "You got some 'splainin' to do."

 

[Dennis Hultman]

As far as mis sexed animals I would say sure it is a possability and I would replace if that is what the customer wanted. Accidents do happen and when you move the volume of animals we move it is very possable to sex a few animals wrong but in no way shape or form does this prove me to be a bad guy. Just because people have not come back into that thread to state that I have taken care of them does not mean it has not happened. I would much rather handle everything right over the phone I think it is more personable this way.
Thanks, Mike Fields

Sure it happens and it doesn't make you a bad guy for it. But what was reported and posted is that they received no contact after reporting it.

I also just noticed that Omar posted this on your user profile just the other day.

Hi Danielle

I was told that you are 'rectifying' all the 'bad guy' complaints about Rainforest Reptiles. I have a complaint that was never rectified or even address. In fact, when I emailed you and Mike, he changed his story and eventually stopped responding to my emails.

Here is my problem (this is the post I put up on fauna) and after is the email exchange that I had with Mike (and now that I read back, I guess you responded to some of the mails):

"I've read a few posts about people being screwed by these guys and I should have listened. I wouldn't say I got "completely screwed" or that Mike was out to get me, but after my deal with him I think he just doesn't have a good conception of what good business is all about. He sold me what was suppose to be 3 1200g+ c.b. normal female BPs that were eating well. When they arrived, they were all under 1100g (one being under 1000g). After a day or two, a couple of them pooped leaving them all under 1000g. When I emailed him, he claimed that he specifically told me that the 1200g+ snakes were w.c. and because I explicitly requested C.B. they were going to be 1000g+. He told me to refer to the emails we had exchanged and to the post he was putting up on kingsnake. My email service keeps all my old emails (non of which mentioned anything about 1000g+ animals) and the post had since been changed. It has been a couple of weeks and the snakes have yet to eat. This shady dealing leaders me to suspect that he wasn't entirely truthful and that these might indeed be w.c. animals. I kept emailing him but he eventually stopped responding. I am unhappy with my purchase and definitely misinformed (and possibly lied to). I would never buy from this guy again. Some deals are really just too good to be true."

If the gentleman is right or wrong about his assessment, I can't state any firsthand knowledge but it was obvious that he was unhappy with the purchase. How long do you give to rectify these purchases? What were the terms? There may have been some miscommunication but should be an easy problem to work out? The same thing he is reporting as above. No contact at all or contact stopping and no resolution.

 

[Dennis Hultman]

On your statements on packaging, this was posted last year.

Let me start by saying Mike couldn't get anything right for me. I ordered some "wholesale" stuff. Half didnt come in, some were dead it was a very small order. He brokers half the stuff he has. Packaged horrible, an EMPTY BOX with no newspaper, styrofoam, etc in it so everything was just rolling around, 1 freezing heat pack. Bad experience.

Anthony Allis
[email protected]

 

[daniellesgeckos]

I have been working my way through the other "bad guy" threads on RR.

I am not really familiar with these people, or this company, so I have an open mind.

My initial thought is, "Why didn't they deal with their issues at the time?" These threads go back for years.

Now, they want to come here and "clear the air" all in one swell foop?

Honestly, it would be cool if they could; a definite happy ending to another BOI drama.

My mind is still open, but they have a lot of work cut out for them.

In the words of a well known Cuban, "You got some 'splainin' to do."

And you absolutely right. I should have taken care of this as they apeared you can see in the begining were I did but qiuckly learned how you can be attacked on here by people who have nothing to do with the known situation. I also noticed how this had little or nothing to do with my money so I did not care. This whole thing started with a guy who brought my name up who has never bought one thing from me and started a Mike Fields is a bad businessman thread. I guess you can say enough is enough at this point. As far as answering questions please take your time and read every thing I wrote and the other people wrote in this thread plus please take the time to read all the threads about my company. You will qiuckly see that even though my name has gotten brought up on here several times only a few are legit claims and actually only a few have proved their case. The other times are just people asking if anyone knows about us and or good guy threads that qiuckly turned into bash sessions.


Thanks, Danielle Fields

 

[Dennis Hultman]

Sure it happens and it doesn't make you a bad guy for it. But what was reported and posted is that they received no contact after reporting it.

Without going through each thread a pointing it out on each post, I'll use a couple of examples I already posted in this thread.

Originally Posted by ravensgait
I will say up until I sent him the money he was quick to reply but after that he was real slow to respond to emails if he replied at all and if I called I got the machine or his wife who would say he wasn't there.

Originally Posted by danielsmn1
but it has been very unpleasant trying to reach this guy. He won't answer my phone calls, emails, anything. It all

Originally Posted by ambrosemurphy View Post
I have to agree...I bought 2 pair of Helmeted geckos from them last year...separate transactions...both instances were nightmares as far as them answering e-mails and phone calls. They shipped in woefully underprepared packaging both times, and the geckos arrived extremely stressed and damn near frozen. Within a week, one male of the second pair had died. I sent them photos, etc and never even got the courtesy of a response.

 

[daniellesgeckos]

I’m reading the thread he started. You stated that he told you the little one died on arrival? Which is completely different from what he posted. I don’t know but I think if I was the seller, I would have been on here ASAP with that big of a discrepancy.

http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/forums/showthread.php?t=94893

Afterwards, he later posted in another thread that you agreed to take care of him even after the original post (if I read his statement correctly). Are you stating you did not agree to take care of him after he already started that thread?

What is your stated policy to your customers in regards to health guarantee?
How long do they have to report a problem? What is your sex guarantee?

Also about the same time several people came forward to state you sent a wrongly sexed animal. One was also another white lip. Also someone stated that the gecko you sent died. In the posts, each person stated that you would not contact them or respond to emails. In another thread someone stated you would give them a credit on there next order for a wrongly sexed animal but several have stated no contact once they reported problems.

The Species US Threads.
It is good to see that you are taking responsibility for the shipping conditions and admit that you were in the wrong. You stated so back then as well and also stated you would change your methods. Four months later a couple of people came forward afterwards to state the shipping conditions didn't change. That was after you had stated that you would fix it.

Also why I have you here do you think you can fix the thread about me that does pretain to me at all?

 

[daniellesgeckos]

Also why I have you here do you think you can fix the thread about me that does pretain to me at all?

Thanks Danielle Fields

 

[daniellesgeckos]

I’m reading the thread he started. You stated that he told you the little one died on arrival? Which is completely different from what he posted. I don’t know but I think if I was the seller, I would have been on here ASAP with that big of a discrepancy.

http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/forums/showthread.php?t=94893

Afterwards, he later posted in another thread that you agreed to take care of him even after the original post (if I read his statement correctly). Are you stating you did not agree to take care of him after he already started that thread?

What is your stated policy to your customers in regards to health guarantee?
How long do they have to report a problem? What is your sex guarantee?

Also about the same time several people came forward to state you sent a wrongly sexed animal. One was also another white lip. Also someone stated that the gecko you sent died. In the posts, each person stated that you would not contact them or respond to emails. In another thread someone stated you would give them a credit on there next order for a wrongly sexed animal but several have stated no contact once they reported problems.

The Species US Threads.
It is good to see that you are taking responsibility for the shipping conditions and admit that you were in the wrong. You stated so back then as well and also stated you would change your methods. Four months later a couple of people came forward afterwards to state the shipping conditions didn't change. That was after you had stated that you would fix it.

Our policy has been the same for years. We offer live arrival and claims must be made with a few hours of the shipment. People need to realise that when you ship live anything to anyone it is at risk. I ship tommy a perfectly healthy Satanic leaftail gecko that we have had for months but if Tommy does not have the tank set up right he can kill that gecko within 24 hours. The first thing a customer decides to do in this situation is point fingers. Little do they know they were the cause of death. That is why we only offer live arrival. You have no idea how many people will call you a month later looking for money or a refund for something they have killed. Am I supposed to take care of the animal for you?


Thanks Danielle Fields

 

[daniellesgeckos]

Also why I have you here do you think you can fix the thread about me that does pretain to me at all?

Also why I have you on here do you think you can get rid of the thread that does not pretain to me at all?

Thanks Danielle Fields

 

[Bill Stonegate]

The other times are just people asking if anyone knows about us and or good guy threads that qiuckly turned into bash sessions.


Thanks, Danielle Fields

Absolutely right. I think most readers can see that. However, your apparent habit of ignoring people who (may or may not) have legitimate complaints seems to be a common "thread". Please excuse the bad pun.