rosko23
Active Member
So I bought the time machine colony from Joshua and I paid for the shipping label as required by him.
Joshua and I agreed to wait a few days bc of the weather here in Chicago. I mentioned he should use 2 heatpacks and he said ok. After it got better he shipped the coral out. I got the box and opened it up and the water was ice cold. The 2 "heat packs" used were the hand warmer ones that didn't work. The box was not a styro box but rather a male shift one. It was a foam core board that was cut to make "walls" of the box. It was about 1/8" if that thick. Needless to say the packaging was not well at all. I immediately emailed josh and he said not to worry they should be ok. I told him hopefully they would be bc they were Zoas not something more sensitive. I updated him for 2-3 days in a row with pics showing him how they were "pinched" and nothing but 2-3 polyps out of the "200" would open. He assured me they looked ok and he would take care of me if they died.
Well after a week or so of nothing I informed him and he said they would either die or not. If the died to let him know. Well they did like 1-2 weeks later of never opening. He told me he was out of town and offered to send me a couple things which I already had so I asked if there was anything else he could do bc I didn't want the same things I had. I was willing to work with him on getting some type of replacement.
Well this is where it went south. He finally got back to me after he was back in town and told me that he felt I would never be happy and that I was basically out of luck. I could make a PayPal Claim if I wanted but he was done with the deal. He said this was taking forever and wanted to end this.
So I filed a claim, he then offered me a $100 back and said I bought the corals at my own risk and he never offered DOA guarantee.
I thought about it for 2 days and decided to just take the $100 and leave it alone bc I was tired of "working" with him. But I wanted to just let everyone else know about the poor transaction I had. And give my feedback that I will never purchase from him again. Kinda sucks bc he just kept saying he's not a retailer so he couldn't refund me my money. So basically I'm out 160.
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Joshua and I agreed to wait a few days bc of the weather here in Chicago. I mentioned he should use 2 heatpacks and he said ok. After it got better he shipped the coral out. I got the box and opened it up and the water was ice cold. The 2 "heat packs" used were the hand warmer ones that didn't work. The box was not a styro box but rather a male shift one. It was a foam core board that was cut to make "walls" of the box. It was about 1/8" if that thick. Needless to say the packaging was not well at all. I immediately emailed josh and he said not to worry they should be ok. I told him hopefully they would be bc they were Zoas not something more sensitive. I updated him for 2-3 days in a row with pics showing him how they were "pinched" and nothing but 2-3 polyps out of the "200" would open. He assured me they looked ok and he would take care of me if they died.
Well after a week or so of nothing I informed him and he said they would either die or not. If the died to let him know. Well they did like 1-2 weeks later of never opening. He told me he was out of town and offered to send me a couple things which I already had so I asked if there was anything else he could do bc I didn't want the same things I had. I was willing to work with him on getting some type of replacement.
Well this is where it went south. He finally got back to me after he was back in town and told me that he felt I would never be happy and that I was basically out of luck. I could make a PayPal Claim if I wanted but he was done with the deal. He said this was taking forever and wanted to end this.
So I filed a claim, he then offered me a $100 back and said I bought the corals at my own risk and he never offered DOA guarantee.
I thought about it for 2 days and decided to just take the $100 and leave it alone bc I was tired of "working" with him. But I wanted to just let everyone else know about the poor transaction I had. And give my feedback that I will never purchase from him again. Kinda sucks bc he just kept saying he's not a retailer so he couldn't refund me my money. So basically I'm out 160.
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