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Dixie Reptiles said:
Wake up ! The B.O.I. is not the real world
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Your right... but hows this for the Real World.... because of the way you handle yourself here... I wont do business with you. Now thats the "Real World"

WebSlave said:
Terry, I am only going to say this once to you, so listen up, please.

The "BOI" doesn't SAY or DO anything in itself or by itself. The people posting on it, do. This is simply the medium that people are allowed to use to post their opinions and whatever facts they can produce about an issue being discussed. Including you. So yes, YOU are a part of the BOI too. And by your definition, "it" is saying what YOU are saying.

But be that as it may, if you have an issue with what someone has posted on the BOI, spell it out, with quotes if possible, and address what was said specifically and pointedly with your own opinions, and facts if you have them, to counter what that person stated. If you intend to attack and bash the BOI for the simple role it plays in providing something that very very few other sites are willing to bear up under, then you are also bashing ME for what I have created here for that purpose. As such, I have no more tolerance for people who use the freedom of this site to bite the hand that feeds them with the sort of bashing you are now engaging in. It WILL cease, or you will be gone. It will not be the first time I have banned a BOI basher taking up bandwidth here with their crap, nor will it be the last. Your choice to make now is whether or not YOU want to be the next one gone.

You are welcome to discuss your issues about the BOI in the Feedback Forum, but it will end right now in THIS forum or you are gone. I do hope this is clear to you, because I do not intend to make any further effort to make it any clearer to you with a future warning.
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:thumbsup: However you may have wanted to put it in bold... that he can read.... see below

Dixie Reptiles said:
Thanks it is easy to read bold print.
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Suncoast Herpetological said:
Terry

Why do you always insist on trying to have the last word when you are so ill equipped to do so.?

David has been caught in numerous lies and now has no reliable method of supplying the service he has touted.

I would love to hear Fedex's side of this conflict. My bet is that it does not bear a strong resemblance to David's

That about sums the situation up.
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Then why dont you contact FedEx instead of bashing me,we have a difference of opinion that does not make me stupid.
 
Southern Wolf said:
Your right... but hows this for the Real World.... because of the way you handle yourself here... I wont do business with you. Now thats the "Real World" Fine with me.



:thumbsup: However you may have wanted to put it in bold... that he can read.... see below
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You bash away with suncoast it shows how childish both of you are.
 
Im not bashing... Im stating 2 facts

Fact 1.... I wont be doing business with you because of how you conduct yourself on here
Fact 2.... You stated "Thanks it is easy to read bold print.".... therefore I suggest to Rich he should have used BOLD.
 
Dixie Reptiles said:
Then why dont you contact FedEx instead of bashing me,we have a difference of opinion that does not make me stupid.
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Terry I am going to let that one go since i really don't think you are a bad guy, just a bit obtuse. I think if you actually looked at the information that has come to light in this thread instead of simply grabbing hold of your opinion and donning blinders, you would be hard pressed to defend David's position

Suffice to say, your 20 or 30 posts on this thread have done no one any good, especially you and David.
 
Suncoast Herpetological said:
Terry I am going to let that one go since i really don't think you are a bad guy, just a bit obtuse. I think if you actually looked at the information that has come to light in this thread instead of simply grabbing hold of your opinion and donning blinders, you would be hard pressed to defend David's position

Suffice to say, your 20 or 30 posts on this thread have done no one any good, especially you and David.
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I am so glad you are an expert on all things.
 
I posted this over at the Bush-League. I dont know if it will get deleted over there... but I figured I would post here as well... complete with the quotes I was refering to.



Steven_Kelley said:
Another chain of events that added to the recent decision to split from FedEx was the refusal from FedEx to refund payments for anything arriving late or dead due to the waiver we all sign when becoming certified.
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Sorry... I just cant buy that.... I mean we all had to sign that same agreement. This is nothing new. So RIPster was willing to shut the shipping program down and leave its clients (which it has tried hard to convience they dont need to get certified....just use us) out in the cold holding their boxes because there are no guarantees.... Wow.. what a way to do business, now their clients have no way to ship legally.


Steven_Kelley said:
Another situation was surround our discounts; FedEx wanted to renegotiate with Reptster. In other words, they wanted to raise our prices due to their claims with increased costs, even though gas prices have lowered considerably over the past few weeks. FedEx wanted more money; even though Reptster is shipping volume which was exceeding our original agreement with FedEx. As of Saturday, FedEx abruptly canceled our discounts and refused any reasonable negotiations after they stated we had 30 days.
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Sorry.... find that hard to believe as well. I am just a small time breeder... and I still get my discounts with FedX. And I can guarentee that RIPster should have been shipping more packages than me. Why would they (FedX) just abruptly cancel the discounts and refuse negotiations..... is it because RIPster was doing something they shouldnt? Sounds like they gave RIPster 30days to pay up!!

Steven_Kelley said:
On Monday Reptster took a substantial financial hit and had to pay the difference between what was and what is for any packages that were being shipped. The only way Reptster could shut it down was to take the payment method off of the account, which essentially shut it down instantly.
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So RIPster had to send FedX the difference between the discounts given and the actual cost of shipping for any packages that were being shipped. Could this be because of the "YOU CAN NOT LET SOMEONE ELSE USE YOUR ACCOUNT NUMBER" rule with FedX. Sounds like someone was trying to beat the system and got caught.

Steven_Kelley said:
According to a conversation David had with FedEx Chief Council. FedEx is losing a ton of money these days and are cutting all recent programs (like the one offered to Reptster). FedEx is going to start tightening up on many accounts that are not as profitable for them as others.
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How are they loosing a ton of money when their biggest money maker is FedEx Priority Overnight.... which is what we all ship by.... besides... they are loosing money by NOT shipping packages. Lets say that you were paying $40 by shipping with RIPster and lets say that they booked 100 packages a day. So why would FedX give up $4000 a day?

Did I mention that Im still getting my discounts... so this doesnt wash either

Steven_Kelley said:
If all goes well, we expect to be back up and shipping with UPS on Monday-Wednesday the latest next week. Only thing is: No shipping of snakes until UPS reviews test packages and policy changes surrounding snakes. Both UPS and Reptster want to make sure we have everything covered and everyone is protected when it comes to snakes.

To answer the question again that I know will be asked and talked about: UPS IS CONSIDERING ACCEPTING NON-VENOMOUS SNAKES VIA REPTSTER AND IS SCHEDULED TO REVIEW POLICY BY NOVEMBER 17th TO BE EXACT!
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Why would a company (RIPster) that tries to convience a multitude of reptile breeders to use its services by touting that you dont have to get certified just up and drop its shipping provider? Oh wait.... RIPster didnt drop FedX... FedX dropped RIPster and gave them 30 days to pay up. You have effectively left all your clients out in the cold holding the very boxes that you said they dont have to get certified to ship.

Now you want to use UPS but until someone can convience them to change their policy your clients are still out in the cold holding their boxes because they didnt get certified. What happens if UPS DOESN'T change its policys. Wooops.... what a way to leave your customers hanging.




Sputnik said:
That's a very smart way to do it, I may do it myself once I get certified.... the local kinkos is just 5 mins away.
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Ya may want to check into that further. Several people have reported problems with Kinkos accepting live snakes.
 
Southern Wolf said:
I posted this over at the Bush-League. I dont know if it will get deleted over there... but I figured I would post here as well... complete with the quotes I was refering to.





Sorry... I just cant buy that.... I mean we all had to sign that same agreement. This is nothing new. So RIPster was willing to shut the shipping program down and leave its clients (which it has tried hard to convience they dont need to get certified....just use us) out in the cold holding their boxes because there are no guarantees.... Wow.. what a way to do business, now their clients have no way to ship legally.




Sorry.... find that hard to believe as well. I am just a small time breeder... and I still get my discounts with FedX. And I can guarentee that RIPster should have been shipping more packages than me. Why would they (FedX) just abruptly cancel the discounts and refuse negotiations..... is it because RIPster was doing something they shouldnt? Sounds like they gave RIPster 30days to pay up!!



So RIPster had to send FedX the difference between the discounts given and the actual cost of shipping for any packages that were being shipped. Could this be because of the "YOU CAN NOT LET SOMEONE ELSE USE YOUR ACCOUNT NUMBER" rule with FedX. Sounds like someone was trying to beat the system and got caught.



How are they loosing a ton of money when their biggest money maker is FedEx Priority Overnight.... which is what we all ship by.... besides... they are loosing money by NOT shipping packages. Lets say that you were paying $40 by shipping with RIPster and lets say that they booked 100 packages a day. So why would FedX give up $4000 a day?

Did I mention that Im still getting my discounts... so this doesnt wash either



Why would a company (RIPster) that tries to convience a multitude of reptile breeders to use its services by touting that you dont have to get certified just up and drop its shipping provider? Oh wait.... RIPster didnt drop FedX... FedX dropped RIPster and gave them 30 days to pay up. You have effectively left all your clients out in the cold holding the very boxes that you said they dont have to get certified to ship.

Now you want to use UPS but until someone can convience them to change their policy your clients are still out in the cold holding their boxes because they didnt get certified. What happens if UPS DOESN'T change its policys. Wooops.... what a way to leave your customers hanging.






Ya may want to check into that further. Several people have reported problems with Kinkos accepting live snakes.
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No , it won't be deleted nor was there a reason to think or insinuate it that it would or might be. I warned you to not use the moniker " Ripster " outside of one area on the forum. If that has your panties in a bunch , not my problem. In the future , try not to read too much into what is asked. The Bush League is not nor does it have a BOI and the rules there are different in some ways than here.

Neither Steven nor Reptster is being protected at the Bush League and Steven has openly answered questions asked of him. Regardless of my feelings on Reptster , I nor the Admin or other Mod , are inclined to let you or anyone else turn it into a pissing match.
 
What I find interesting is that either Steven Kelley or Gerry (ssscales) did a STRAIGHT copy and paste to the 2 forums (BL and Reptster)...if you look back just a little, someone (I believe Dennis) quoted the EXACT SAME THING from ssscales that was posted on the Reptster forum. I also find it interesting that Mr. Kelley can go on OTHER forums and respond to what is happening with Reptster, but chooses not to come here and talk about this issue (the FedEx shipping situation).
Just my 2 cents on this early morning. I have lots of other things to say, but just not going to right now...I am trying to stay "out of the box" as the original poster of this thread. Sometimes it is not easy...
 
Why can't David ever actually answer a question or explain what is going on.

He has his mods do all the talking and posting.

I am getting sick of him never answering questions and always making his mods post about issues relaying what he "told them".

He runs the site/business. It's David who should be clearing up things NOT his mods.

I want to hear it from him so he can't go back and say his mods misunderstood him when they posted something.
 
I smell toast.

It's only a matter of time before someone else starts a new thread about it. It's really a whole new level of crapola.
 
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