All, thank you for the help. I have been unable to get in contact with "Sheldon" (or any of the other aliases) for the past 4 weeks. (I waited to post to BOI, just giving him the benefit of the doubt.) However, Jon from Jon's Jungle, did happen to speak with him yesterday morning. Jon mentioned that "Sheldon" supposedly sold or traded my piebald already (conveniently)--
--despite my immediate plea of sending each other the snakes back. He also tried to play it off that I was the bad guy--for what, wanting my snake back?!? Regardless of if he knowingly passed on fraudulent paperwork, the agreement was voided by doing so, and my snake should have been returned.
I spent the last 2 weeks working with his local police department (an attorney advised me to do this), and they can't do anything, despite his outlandish lies to the detective in charge of the case ("Sheldon" told the detective he got the pastel het clown with the fraudulent paperwork on eBay! He even had the audacity to tell the detective that I never tried to contact him.).
I also noticed on the shipping air bil he selected standard overnight, which makes the package last priority till end of the day. Not sure about anyone else but i wont accept a shipment not shipped priority over night as a whole extra day driving on the truck is too much.
Seems he did this to save few bucks in shipping.
I'm sure he was trying to save a few bucks.
Unless of course the pacakge is helf for pickup at the hub then its fine.
I had it held at the HUB.
Probably a good thing you didn't get through to the 244 number. That area code is for Angola.
224 is an Illinois area code, though, so maybe the numbers were simply mistyped or mistaken by Grant.
There is a Richard
S. Brown in Gurnee. His age is in the 50's (as is his wife). Could be a parent to "Sheldon"?
The area code was a typo. It was supposed to be "224.......". "Sheldon definitely did not sound like a 50 year old...
LOL ... lil ole me? Scary?
Having said that ... it's most likely Grant was given an inorrect number purposely.
No, it was a typo on my part.
I would love to get an update from the OP with anything new that is happening .. I'd hate to see all of this good effort go to waste.
Hopefully the "intro" paragraph to this response will serve as an update. He won't return emails, texts, or calls from me, but had no problem speaking to the detective and Jon (because he didn't know who was calling).
I have spent 4 painful weeks day in and day out trying to get this ordeal rectified (Jon from Jon's Jungle can attest to this)--just so you know, I'm not sitting on my hands.
Again, thank you all, I'm just not really sure how to proceed. Apparently my snake is no longer in "Sheldon's" possession, I can't get in contact with him, and his local authorities won't do a thing.
