If only we had a facepalm smiley...
Hello All,
My name is Armen. I go by Rhacoboy on this forum, and RhacsEtc on most others. I have been using fauna for several years, and the BOI is one of my favorite things about this forum.
I have known Kim for about 9 years. She has been vending at the Taylor, MI reptile show that I regularly attend, and she worked at a pet store that I used to frequent. She is one of the most honorable, honest breeders in this business, and I am disgusted by the accustations and alligations against her. Kim has BY FAR some of the best stock, and has been a reputable breeder who has had nothing but positive things said about her for several years, until this post.
None of that has any relevance. An honorable person doesn't engage in such a vindictive activity as holding someone's refund hostage. Based on her handling of this situation, she richly deserves any and all negative comments that she's received.
OP, it is funny how you can call someone childish, yet you have your mother calling her and threatening her? Go ahead, call your lawyer, in the meantime I hope Kim will be filing a police report due to the fact that she was threatened by your mother. Practice what you preach, OP. You calling her childish is very hypocritcal.
What your sycophantical tendencies have clearly blinded you to is this: Had your buddy not chosen to act like a petulant child, this thread wouldn't exist. Nor would she have received any so-called threats. It's funny how people suddenly turn into crybabies when they have no real leg to stand on. Assuming that the conversation even happened as your friend claims-which, considering her credibility is pretty much non-existent, is very questionable-there was no explicit threat of physical violence. Having to step away from your life to be dragged into court over $152 would be enough to make most people "sorry" to have put themselves in the situation where they had to hear her voice. In light of your friend's choice to withhold returning the buyer's money, a threat of legal action isn't even remotely unreasonable.
I rarely reply to these posts, but seeing one of the best of the best getting slandered on this forum calls for a response.
Not particularly relevant, but I always get a chuckle over people who can't even muster the smarts to differentiate between libel and slander. If you're going to make a habit of supporting the person who's clearly in the wrong, maybe you should just continue to abstain from posting here. We're known by the company we keep, after all.
I know that what everyone see's in this post is STRICTLY based on what the OP and Kim are posting in this thread, so I would like to go off of what has been posted.
First off, Kim states that A LIVE ARRIVAL GUARANTEE REQUIRES SYR, and SYR insurance to be purchased. Without that, you will not get the live arrival guarantee. This seems to be an industry standard. When I ship, I use SYR. I ensure the package and in that case the live arrival guarantee stands. If the buyer waves the insurance, they then wave the live arrival guarantee. She told you "If I use ship your reptiles, they have insurance you can buy, its 2.50 for every 100, any of the others don't have it on reptiles." So if you, OP, had paid to use SYR, she would have guaranteed the live arrival with the SYR insurance.
Regardless of your laughable idea of what the "industry standard" is for Live Arrival Guarantees, that's yet another irrelevant spiel. Your buddy flaked-out and cancelled the order. Hence, nothing was ever shipped. All that's left is for her to stop being a vindictive child and just issue the refund. If she doesn't have the money-which is what I believe to be the case-she needs to admit to that and make arrangements to complete the refund. No more hiding behind her pitiful little display of righteous indignation, which I suspect is just to hide the fact that she's too proud to admit she simply doesn't have the money.
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Nothing worth responding to.
I hope that the two of you can civily resolve this, and I hope that these posts do not ruin anyones opinion of Kim. There are DOZENS of people who can vouch for Kim, her animals, and her business practice. If you have been in this business for 10+ years, and you have NOTHING bad ever said about you, that goes to show that she has clearly been doing something right all these years.
And now there's at least one person who can vouch for just how unreasonable Kim can choose to be when it suits her. Again, whatever she may have done right in the past, does nothing to negate the fact that she's completely dropping the ball on this one. Any tarnish to her reputation is entirely self-inflicted.
Also, she has told you she is going to refund your money, and she has already refunded half. Your payment was sent in four different pieces, why is it unacceptable to be sent back in four different pieces?
If you really need to have it explained exactly why it's wrong for a 54 year-old woman to act like a spoiled preteen, I'm not going to waste any more time trying to explain it. Aside from acting out of a blatantly obvious desire to as petty as humanly possible, there's no reason to continue to drag this out. For someone who claims to want to be done with this particular buyer, she sure isn't acting like she wants to end this.
