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Bad Guy Ronny Steves

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On Monday 3/2/2014 I saw a post for a 46" male red tegu for sale, I contacted him asked a few questions and ended up making a payment threw PayPal for him.
We agreed Tuesday for Wednesday delivery(yes i know its still Wednesday) and seamed well and good.

Today I logged in and noticed he had removed the (Sold) tag and I messaged him and he assured me that it would be arriving today but had misplaced the tracking number.

I was talking to a friend who is also a member and he messaged the guy and he tried to sell it to him for $150.00, after talking with some other people I found out that multiple people sent this guy money for the same animal.

I will list my conversation first, then the one that where sent to me by the other users.
 

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This one is from the other forum user.
 

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Even if this guy did ship him to me, and i highly doubt he did, he is still trying to sucker more people into sending him money.
 
I sent him $175 on Monday through Paypal he was supposed to ship out yesterday for today no tegu. I am putting a claim through my Pay Pal. If some one can tell me how to show my emails and PM from here I can show proof. I had my wife send him an email acting interested after he was supposed to ship out and he told her the same $150 shipped.
 
The Limit message on your payment should of told you he was a NEW paypal account. He didnt send anything so hurry and file a claim, and it will LOCK his account and all funds.

Being new he has no quick access to the funds!
 
Brian, file a claim ASAP. This dude's a scammer for sure.

I'm also suspicious there is a connection between this "RonnySteves" and Fauna user "Snakey"/Max Nixon, who is also in the UK and had a B & W tegu auction that didn't pan out for ole Max as he used a UK address in his profile location.
 

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I saw that ad.
I hope it all works out for all ..
"to good to be true" was my first thought and I moved on ............
 
I'm glad that all of you should be getting refunds :)

It definitely pays to search a vendor on Fauna and if that doesn't initially pan out, to then post an inquiry.

We're the BOI, it's what we do. :D

(The sentence above is a sarcastic take-off of a commercial I see/hear way too often that I am totally sick of)
 
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