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MR PEANUT seller, great snakes!

heloderma_guy said:
Hi all,

Just responding to the numerous posts now questioning my profession and a few other things. The purpose of this forum is to tell whether or not you had a positive purchase from a seller. That is all I was reporting. If you do not want to order from a person, then don't. I'm not telling you to buy from MR PEANUT as the name is kind of odd, and indeed does seem kinda fishy. The purchase was made through Paypal and the seller was a verified delta shipper, and as such there was no return address.
Sorry I don't have a real name to give you guys for this person. While the last name was listed as Peanut on the e-mails, that was all I had to work with. I fail to see the relevance of most of the objections leveled in this thread :confused: . If you don't feel comfortable ordering from someone, then don't. I took a chance on the name when others didn't and was quite satisfied with the service I got. There was no other motive than that. Hope this helps you all out some.
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More bull excrement. All items shipped via Delta include the shipper's name and address. If you paid through PayPal there was a real name of the entity that received the payment. Was it really "Mr. Peanut"?

You, Loren, are lying.
 
???

There was not a name from the paypal account, merely an address. While paypal reported the person as a certified shipper, there was no name on the box when it arrived. :eek: Sorry, that pisses you off so much, but it is the best I can offer you. Once again, if you don't feel comfortable ordering from someone, don't do it.
 
First you say
heloderma_guy said:
the seller was a verified delta shipper, and as such there was no return address.
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then you say
heloderma_guy said:
There was not a name from the paypal account, merely an address. While paypal reported the person as a certified shipper, there was no name on the box when it arrived. :eek: Sorry, that pisses you off so much, but it is the best I can offer you. Once again, if you don't feel comfortable ordering from someone, don't do it.
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I'm not pissed. I'm just catching your lies. Is he PayPal certified? Or is he Delta certified? Did PayPal give you an address? What shipper accepted a box with no return address? What was the tracking/waybill number? These are simple questions and you are simply tying a noose around your neck and hanging yourself with more lies. Keep 'em coming. It's a rainy Sunday here and you're mildly entertaining. As I said, I was born at night, but not last night.

BTW, when PayPal confirms a payment they give a business name or a person's name. What was it? And what was the email address that "Mr Peanut" used to accept payment? It would be easy for you to retrieve that and then I could check it myself. If this is all on the up and up come clean and answer the questions.

A scammer will answer that he deleted all of the emails and threw away the box already. I'll answer that you can go into your PayPal account and retrieve the transaction and get his email. What's your excuse going to be?
 
I've been eyeing a female hypo boa in the KS classifieds for a while now but it didn't "feel" right so I passed her up.. Glad to see I trusted my judgement after reading this post.. I'm a religous classified surfer and my #1 red flag is the fact that I've never once seen Mr. Peanut's ads in the past and they have only been running this month and now this "heloderma guy" is posting in praise the first day he signs up. Mr. Peanut/Loren, trying to boost sales by praising yourself on the BOI is going to do more harm than good.. This trick has been pulled a million times, you don't think these good'ole BOI people can recognize it?
 
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lorens computer must be down again....LOL

NOT JUST TUNA ROTTEN TUNA
 
I'm wondering... probably a long shot here.

Mr. Peanut = Reptile Ranch ?

Animals in ads seem vaguely familiar and Mr. Peanut looks to have shown up right about the same time RR disappeared from the KS classifieds....and that apparently was shortly after the latest round of someone posting on the BOI about someone getting a sick snake from RR.

I wish I could find an old ad of RR's to compare IPs to the ones in Mr. Peanut's ads, but the ads aren't there anymore.

Adrian
 
heloderma_guy said:
There was not a name from the paypal account, merely an address. While paypal reported the person as a certified shipper, there was no name on the box when it arrived. :eek: Sorry, that pisses you off so much, but it is the best I can offer you. Once again, if you don't feel comfortable ordering from someone, don't do it.
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Very simple. What was the email address you paid?
 
:shrug01: Is this against TOS? My buddy is not a member because he only has dial up and Fauna takes too long to load. but he was looking to buy the adult female Hypo advertised on KS and I advised him to get a name and location to look her up here...

After much back and forth this is what he got in a nut shell, pun intended.

1. Name: Charlie Gutierrez
This is a female, who he spoke with on the phone.

2. PayPal or cash only. Would not accept a Postal M.O.

3. Morgan Hill, CA no address, no phone number would be given.

4. Offered for a pick up deal... as soon as he told her he was in Wa. state.

5. Mentioned that "she had never had to work so hard to sell an animal"

6. When asked for 2 references stated that she would only after first checking with these people for permission to give out info. Then never responded.

The last contact was her saying that she "did not have to take this kind of questioning, I will not sell her to you"

This all may not be in EXACT order, but this is the meat of it... I can post emails (some calls fell in between) if needed by Mods for TOS compliance.

Needless to say I told Mike to run the other way...Hope this helps.

Oh yeah, she claims to watch the BOI, so I had Mike ask for her username... response was "oh, I just look, I am not a member"


So Hello Charlie, if you are watching Mike says hi!
 
It is the Reptile Ranch.
Charlie sent the email. The address was [email protected].
Take that address to paypal and put it into the send money line. Put in 1.00.
On the next screen it will tell you if they are verified or not. if they're verified the name we pop up, underlined with a link. click on the link.

The information comes up.
Payment Sent To: REPTILES ([email protected])
Account Status: Verified Business Member (241)

[email protected]

Cust. Service Phone: 209-829-1227
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This is chuck and Luara of the reptile ranch. Loren here, is more than likely Luara.
 
It is the Reptile Ranch.
Charlie sent the email. The address was [email protected].
Take that address to paypal and put it into the send money line. Put in 1.00.
On the next screen it will tell you if they are verified or not. If they're verified the name will pop-up, underlined with a link. click on the link.
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Then cancel the payment ;)
 
Man am I glad I saw this. I too was eyeing the Hypo female he has had listed on KS. The only thing that was stopping me was the name. I was having trouble convincing myself to buy anything from someone calling themselves Mr. Peanut.

Thanks guys for the awesome detective work.


Vanessa Pritchard
 
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