• In the past two days I have gotten emails asking about being requested to provide credit card info in order to register and also to make a post in the classifieds forums. PLEASE NOTE: In no instance will this site ask you for this sort of information. The only time any request for payment is made is if you choose to opt-in for a higher membership level, and that is done SOLELY through PayPal. Anything else is coming from a source other than this site. My guess is that this is coming through Google Adsense, but when I can get someone to send me a screen shot of this sort of request, I will know more.
  • Responding to email notices you receive.
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    In short, DON'T! Email notices are to ONLY alert you of a reply to your private message or your ad on this site. Replying to the email just wastes your time as it goes NOWHERE, and probably pisses off the person you thought you replied to when they think you just ignored them. So instead of complaining to me about your messages not being replied to from this site via email, please READ that email notice that plainly states what you need to do in order to reply to who you are trying to converse with.

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On 1/28/2020 I posted a wanted ad in the amphibians classifieds searching for Chacophrys pierottii. On 1/29/2020 at 7:21am I received an email from “Rita Belcher” ([email protected]) staring they had a few available and will send over photos. I responded telling them what I was looking for and asking how much. The seller responded with $55 each plus shipping, and asked for a zip code to calculate shipping costs. Shipping came out to be $55, so the grand total is $110 shipped.
After agreeing with the pricing, I asked for photos before I purchase. After receiving photos, I recognized them from Instagram. The Instagram post (in photos) was posted by someone in Korea on December 20, 2019.
I contacted the seller asking if they were importing this animal, and if this account belong to them. Disregarding my questions they responded “yes they are CBB.”

I’m posting this to warn others of this person that is possibly using fake photos to scam people out of money.
 

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