ForkedTung
Serpent Mound Monk
I was hoping to avoid this but Mike has forced the issue by stating he would start a thread on me ( to be honest I had thought of starting one on him, but was willing to let the issue rest where it was, he got his snake and I got paid, should've been the end of the story).
In a nutshell, I posted a hatchling cornsnake on cornsnakes.com, Mike offered to buy it, I looked into shipping FedEx, next day( I am FedEx certified to ship and have shipped many snakes and never had this problem) he wanted me to find a location convenient to him so I sent him a link with staffed locations ( he later states he's had snakes shipped there before so I'm not sure why he had me go look up locations for him?) and he decided to go with the standard rate for next day delivery.
After agreeing to this he PayPals me the money and then I ship on Monday and send him the FedEx shipping link so he can track it.
I didn't get any response so I repeatedly tried to contact him via two email addy's I have ( one for business, the other for contacts) and through PM's and messages at cornsnakes.com. I wanted to make sure he knew, for sure, the snake was coming ( for this Mike later calls me paranoid), finally after the Monday emails I get a message Tuesday ( today) he will be picking it up after work.
At approximately 7:20 PM, my time (4:20 in AZ, where the snake is), I get a call from FedEx stating that the package has not been picked up and that they know it's a snake because it's been sitting there for seven hours now and I had written the scientific name and common on the box, very small...per the LACY ACT
( something Mike later calls "crap" and admits he doesn't do).
The woman is very nice and helpful, and she says that because it's an animal they can only hold it there until 5:30 PM or they will ship it to Tempe for the night because that facility where it is at can't keep it, (at that point she is unclear what will happen with it if he doesn't pick it up tonight and she said she's looking into it), but he can still pick it up in Tempe before 7:30, this info was from two different conversations when she called me, one before and then after they shipped it to Tempe.
I immediately again send emails and messages, the same as before, to Mike basically reiterating what I've been told, I also send him the phone number of the very nice FedEx lady ( she really was helpful and just trying to get this resolved, in the later conversation she said if he didn't get it in time, she'd pretend they missed it and she'd try to keep the snake there in Tempe until the next day by 5PM) which it appears he never bothered to call her.
At this point I'm frustrated with the lack of being able to communicate with him, I've done everything I can to see he get's this snake, delivered to exactly where he wanted, when he wanted it and to where he's had snakes shipped before. I'm worried about the snake and just hoping he get's it in time, as it will probably be another day of travel with temperatures dropping (even with the 40hr. heat pack) if they had to send it back, a possibility if he doesn't get it in time.
Then I get this
I tried to make this easy to read;we had two sets of emails going at one point, but I can post them all as they are if that would help((blue is me, writing in now)
At the same time after my first email we had another set of them exchanged, I send this:
and I send this:
Much adoo about nothing? Happy Mike ( link sent).
I do admit to two mistakes:
1. Not getting his phone number.
2. Not checking into that facility, although calling any of these places and asking about shipping live animals where the employees don't know squat would not be the best idea either.(we both could have been more diligent, he said it was fine and had shipped snakes there before).
In a nutshell, I posted a hatchling cornsnake on cornsnakes.com, Mike offered to buy it, I looked into shipping FedEx, next day( I am FedEx certified to ship and have shipped many snakes and never had this problem) he wanted me to find a location convenient to him so I sent him a link with staffed locations ( he later states he's had snakes shipped there before so I'm not sure why he had me go look up locations for him?) and he decided to go with the standard rate for next day delivery.
After agreeing to this he PayPals me the money and then I ship on Monday and send him the FedEx shipping link so he can track it.
I didn't get any response so I repeatedly tried to contact him via two email addy's I have ( one for business, the other for contacts) and through PM's and messages at cornsnakes.com. I wanted to make sure he knew, for sure, the snake was coming ( for this Mike later calls me paranoid), finally after the Monday emails I get a message Tuesday ( today) he will be picking it up after work.
At approximately 7:20 PM, my time (4:20 in AZ, where the snake is), I get a call from FedEx stating that the package has not been picked up and that they know it's a snake because it's been sitting there for seven hours now and I had written the scientific name and common on the box, very small...per the LACY ACT
( something Mike later calls "crap" and admits he doesn't do).
The woman is very nice and helpful, and she says that because it's an animal they can only hold it there until 5:30 PM or they will ship it to Tempe for the night because that facility where it is at can't keep it, (at that point she is unclear what will happen with it if he doesn't pick it up tonight and she said she's looking into it), but he can still pick it up in Tempe before 7:30, this info was from two different conversations when she called me, one before and then after they shipped it to Tempe.
I immediately again send emails and messages, the same as before, to Mike basically reiterating what I've been told, I also send him the phone number of the very nice FedEx lady ( she really was helpful and just trying to get this resolved, in the later conversation she said if he didn't get it in time, she'd pretend they missed it and she'd try to keep the snake there in Tempe until the next day by 5PM) which it appears he never bothered to call her.
At this point I'm frustrated with the lack of being able to communicate with him, I've done everything I can to see he get's this snake, delivered to exactly where he wanted, when he wanted it and to where he's had snakes shipped before. I'm worried about the snake and just hoping he get's it in time, as it will probably be another day of travel with temperatures dropping (even with the 40hr. heat pack) if they had to send it back, a possibility if he doesn't get it in time.
Then I get this
I tried to make this easy to read;we had two sets of emails going at one point, but I can post them all as they are if that would help((blue is me, writing in now)to which I replied:
now Mike:
my reply
At the same time after my first email we had another set of them exchanged, I send this:
he send this in reply to that one:
and I send this:
To which my final one from him that I have not responded to is this:
Much adoo about nothing? Happy Mike ( link sent).
I do admit to two mistakes:
1. Not getting his phone number.
2. Not checking into that facility, although calling any of these places and asking about shipping live animals where the employees don't know squat would not be the best idea either.(we both could have been more diligent, he said it was fine and had shipped snakes there before).
