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Bad Guy Tyson Shuler and Taylor Alfs - Exotic Wonders of the Permian Basin - Midland Texas

Can you tell us more about the chameleons? Is the guy who lost chameleons the same guy who still has some that survived?

It feels like we are sort of coming into the middle of parts of this story. Do you have any documentation of contacting your customers who still have healthy animals that they bought from you, like emails, texts, etc?
 
Tyson Jaymes said:
I just hate how someone can say something and its word, Mike and Sean are the admins on Reptile connection so if they say something bad than im screwed... Im glad that my name is not ruined here... Anyone wanna get a gorgeous GTP?
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We really do just want to figure out what the truth is here, and Sean, the op didn't seem to care about making his accusations clear or to substantiate them.
 
Tyson Jaymes said:
I will get emails from the customers and post them up here.
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This would be great. Then we can continue to try to sort this out.

For now, I am off for much needed sleep. Get emails or correspondence or you can even try to get these people to come here and post, and give us their impressions of you and of this situation.

Rob is right about the classifieds too. You can post your animals there for free and unless Sean or Mike become paid members, they cannot post in your classified threads. ;)
 
Tyson, you say you invested $43,000.00 in this store. that makes you the owner of the business which makes you responsible for everything that goes on there.

You have tried to put the blame on your employees, you are ultimately responsible for every transaction they do. if they sell a sick animal its your problem to fix.

As far as you being set up..I am not buying it.grow a set! take responsibility!!

That was classless bringing a defenseless kid into your problems.:(
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So all in all 43,000 put into a store that started with Ringtailed Lemurs, caimans, lizards, snakes and more, all put together with Vision cages, and now I have two small racks a redtail and pair of Het Pied Balls. Soon after this mike said he felt bad and had a blood I could have so I could sell it and make some money, I was given a Blood with mites and a really bad RI which did not make it.

So my only conclusion is I was setup. Now I understand if people wont do business with me, But im trying to get things right.
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Tyson Jaymes said:
Yes that is the same mike. Thats why I am trying to show everyone I had nothing to do with bad customers how do I fix my name. This is how I feed my kid lol.
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Tyson this is what you said was your occupation when you joined Fauna on September 8,2012

So I guess my question to you is will you lie about your employees setting you up like you lie about your occupation?

I work for a smoke shop while I build my breeding collection.
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Tyson Jaymes said:
I feed my daughter and take care of my kin by selling reptiles,
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This is Tysons profile. tried to put it up on last post,didn't work.:)

About Tyson Jaymes
FULL NAME
Tyson Jaymes
City and State and Country
Odessa, Texas US
Interests
Retics, Burms, GTPS, any and all Ball Morphs.
Occupation
I work for a smoke shop while I build my breeding collection.
Biography
Motors, and building websites.
Where did you hear about FaunaClassifieds?
Google.
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Tyson - bad move on registering with a different name than is used to identify you in the title of this thread (your full name). Suggests you may not want people on Fauna, outside of this thread, to know that the thread is about you.

People here wil form their own opinions. You should try and be as honest as you can from here on out. Ask a Mod if they will change your username.

Tell us all the info about all the sick animals (Cham, Burmese, Gaboon,...). How'd you get them, where were they kept, who sold/traded, the whole 9 yards. What happened to Taylor, anyway?
 
As far as his claims of saying me and michael were out to get him thats just proposterous, maybe michael was idk I work alone. Sure michael came to me afterwards appologizing for tyson and taylor so I left his name out of this and also refrained from banning him from the facebook group "permian basin reptile connection and classifieds". That does not mean in any way we were working together.

Heres a conversation between me and his girlfriend recently who came to me wondering what happened...
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As far as the chameleon claim, hes he got them from me. I bought a bunch off underground reptiles wholesale list and quarantined them in a bunch of separate exoterra cages and one big mesh cage I put all the ones that ever looked sick in.
Everyone I sold them to I told then they were WC jacksons from underground reptiles.
I had about 5-10 left in that mesh cage and Tyson wanted to buy all my exoterra cages for his store. I gave him the chameleons as a bonus and told him they were all BGRADE. He then turned around and sold them and told everyone they were CB and perfectly healthy. Not my fault...

Here are some more screenshots from the facebook group "permian basin reptile connection and classifieds"
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One more thing, I at least try to show proof and get laughed at by everyone, Tyson Shuler gets on here and says some cute lines and everyone takes his word for it???
 
SeanSmith said:
One more thing, I at least try to show proof and get laughed at by everyone, Tyson Shuler gets on here and says some cute lines and everyone takes his word for it???
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No one took his word for anything. We asked him to clarify his language, which he did, and we asked him to give us some kind of proof that supported his side of the story. We asked you to do the same, and you refused before he joined and told his side of the story.

Are there any pictures of these sick and mite infested animals that your fb group claims that he sold to your members?
 
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