snake lab / Chris Guida (split from "If it's too good to be true...")

[snake lab]

Wow the peanut gallery is still going strong i see. Just to let ya know ive talked to justin and we will be getting everything worked out tonight. His deal is the only deal i have left open. Go do a boi search for others in the community and i think you will be amazed to find out how quickly peopke will run and point fingers. How many times am i going to have to say the same thing before the peanut gallery gets it? Yes i screwed up, i screwed up by not keeping a closer eye on who i was dealing with. I should have done photo identifications, i could have done a number of things. I cant change it. All i can do is fix it. I never intended on ripping anyone off nor did i rip anyone off. I am guilty of not making a unsatisfied customer happy with the aninals they recieved for whatever reason. On a couple deals. The justin deal is totalky my fault. I should have refunded his money. Instead i was trying to get him another animal he wanted. As far as ellen i tried to work with that lady, she wanted more then she originally paid and it was only one so called dead snake with no proof it died. Not only did she want a refund but she wanted new snakes as well. But go ahead peanut gallery keep bashing me. Your so quick to bash someone from a couple deals that went south at one time in a 12 year span of good buisness. Seems fair to me.

[Stewart_Reptiles]

Wow the peanut gallery is still going strong i see.

But go ahead peanut gallery keep bashing me. Your so quick to bash someone from a couple deals that went south at one time in a 12 year span of good buisness. Seems fair to me.

Glad to see how much you changed in the last 7 years do you expect respect with all YOUR lies and insults?

Apologizing and insulting people at the same time ........let me know how that work for you.

Maybe you should take a break and try this again in another 7 years maybe the attitude will have improved by than and maybe you will be capable of HONESTY that time around

[rabernet]

Your so quick to bash someone from a couple deals that went south at one time in a 12 year span of good buisness. Seems fair to me.

We're not quick to bash someone for a couple of deals that went south. We are quick to bash someone for not RESOLVING those couple of deals in almost SEVEN years time.

Let me ask you a question. If this had not come to light the way that it has, would you have reached out to Justin today to try to resolve it? When would you have made good on this bad deal with Justin if your feet weren't held to the fire?

It takes you SEVEN years to produce another snake that he wanted? Come on! At no time in the past SEVEN years did you think "you know - I still need to resolve this thing with Justin, let me reach out to him and make things right"?

You illustrated that you were not above lying in your Fauna thread - when you told Ellen that you had shipped her money and a replacement snake - but surprise! Nothing showed up.

[snake lab]

Deborah i could give a damn what you few think of me based on what you want to believe out of the situation. Ive apoligized and admitted to my couple deals and i have fixed and still fixing them. Get off your high horse just because you are a mod on a forum website. Some people may bow to you for that but i sure dont. I have been in this industry a long time i have had thousands of great deals. Ive had a couple deals that went south. Get over it. The deals were not with any one of the peanut gallery . But i know its the internet so everyones a rockstar. I will keep ya posted in what shows i will be at tgis coming year. Please dont hesitate to come by and trash me

[Mike Cavanaugh]

And this whole situation was created from a moderator or administrator from this site taking a private message, putting their spin on it and sending it to members to call me out or whatever. Why didnt you call me out yourself? Instead you have regular members do it.

LOL, I always love conspiracy theories... In fact I have made a few up myself over the years.

Just ask Mike Cavanaugh how well he gets along with the staff here. He's gonna fall out of his chair laughing at the thought that someone would think we'd confide in him and ask him to do dirty work for us. He's just smarter than you.

LMAO!!!!

Yes Chris, you obvioulsy haven't been around this site long enough to know its members... and their relationships with one another...

The admins of this site and I... we kinda have a love - hate relationship. All joking aside though, I really do love and appreciate all of them, and have even had the pleasure of meeting some of them in person. That said in the past the admins and I have had a tendancy to butt heads a bit when we disagree on things... I have a lot of passion in regards to this hobby and sometimes I let my emotions get the best of me. At one point I was almost banned! Lucky for me they haven't kicked me out yet because they know I contribute a lot to this forum and they know I make an honest effort now to follow the TOS of the site with every post.

Anyways, yes, it is very safe to say that I would not be the one the admins would go to for some sort of secret mission LOL.

See, I like calling people out... I like adding a little spice to the conversations when something doesnt sound or look right. I think it adds a lot to the forum, and keeps people honest. Judging by all of my recent reading on CMG today on here and Fauna, it appears my skills for smelling something that is a little fishy have proven themselves once again.

I am glad you are now trying to pay back the people who you owe money to. Now anyone that is willing to wait 5 - 7 years for a refund if a deal goes bad can decide to do business with you if they want.

Now please quit ripping the teeth out of rats mouths while they are still alive... And for gods sake, stop killing spiders ball python babies because they wobble.

[snake lab]

We're not quick to bash someone for a couple of deals that went south. We are quick to bash someone for not RESOLVING those couple of deals in almost SEVEN years time.

Let me ask you a question. If this had not come to light the way that it has, would you have reached out to Justin today to try to resolve it? When would you have made good on this bad deal with Justin if your feet weren't held to the fire?

It takes you SEVEN years to produce another snake that he wanted? Come on! At no time in the past SEVEN years did you think "you know - I still need to resolve this thing with Justin, let me reach out to him and make things right"?

You illustrated that you were not above lying in your Fauna thread - when you told Ellen that you had shipped her money and a replacement snake - but surprise! Nothing showed up.

I tried to reach out to justin a year ago and then again about 6 months ago on facebook and email. I was emailing is jkobylka@edu address but i have found out from a mutual breeder we both do buisness with that it has changed. I have talked to justin this morning and will be getting it straightened out tonight. The other deal is a case of a customer who is not happy with any deal. I tried a number of solutions with her. When i found her replacement animals she didnt want em. There comes a point where the situation gets exhausted. Now my question to all in tue peanut gallery, what the hell else do you want me to do.

[wwmjkd]

I tried to reach out to justin a year ago and then again about 6 months ago on facebook and email. I was emailing is jkobylka@edu address but i have found out from a mutual breeder we both do buisness with that it has changed. I have talked to justin this morning and will be getting it straightened out tonight. The other deal is a case of a customer who is not happy with any deal. I tried a number of solutions with her. When i found her replacement animals she didnt want em. There comes a point where the situation gets exhausted. Now my question to all in tue peanut gallery, what the hell else do you want me to do.

is that honestly your excuse? you can use google to find contact information on just about anyone these days, to say nothing of someone like Justin with a successful business website. if you've used any of your 'connections' in the reptile industry in the past few years, there's no way you could have missed the fact that he's a breeder with a great reputation. people like that are easy to get in touch with.

I don't want you to do anything other than honor your agreements, no matter when they were made. selling normals as hets, failing to provide paperwork, and holding other people's money all have a tendency to find their way back to the surface.

and cavanaugh might rub a few people the wrong way occasionally, but he's no idiot. he's certainly not the one trying to cover up past lies with new ones and hiding in anonymity until someone else exposes him.

[snake lab]

Im not covering anything. Again i ask the question. Once my deal is fixed with justin what would you people like me to do? You want to sit back on your thrones and act like you are perfect in every way. I admitted the mistakes i made. I was a co owner not a sole owner, i worked the online part solely and also did some of the wholesale orders. I learned alot about the buisness side of things from those experiences and as i had mostly great deals there were a few questionable ones that i either fixed and am going to fix the one with justin so again i ask what do you expect me to do? You guys have me pegged as a bad guy from jumpstreet and im not looking for your acceptance. All these forums online are all the same. You will always have the peanut gallery sitting behind their computers with all the answers.

[JLC]

Again i ask the question.... what would you people like me to do?

Seriously, if you REALLY want to build up a decent rep...then you have to realize that it's not enough to just play lip-service. You can say over and over again, "I own up to it..." but you honestly don't seem to understand what that really means.

You haven't once addressed the issue of the lying. You seem to think that so long as you ignore it, no one will notice it?

OWN THE LIES as well as the mistakes. When you realize that honesty and integrity is ALL any of us want, then you'll know what to do yourself. Admit the lies...ALL of them...not just the ones we've noticed or called out...and then let people know that you really DO understand what words like "honesty" and "integrity" mean. Then go out and LIVE BY THEM.

Trust won't happen overnight, but over time...if you really mean it...and you really work hard...you CAN build a successful business. But if you keep hiding behind various veils of deception, no one will ever care how much you "own the mistakes".

[wilomn]

Im not covering anything. Again i ask the question. Once my deal is fixed with justin what would you people like me to do? You want to sit back on your thrones and act like you are perfect in every way. I admitted the mistakes i made. I was a co owner not a sole owner, i worked the online part solely and also did some of the wholesale orders. I learned alot about the buisness side of things from those experiences and as i had mostly great deals there were a few questionable ones that i either fixed and am going to fix the one with justin so again i ask what do you expect me to do? You guys have me pegged as a bad guy from jumpstreet and im not looking for your acceptance. All these forums online are all the same. You will always have the peanut gallery sitting behind their computers with all the answers.

Are you attempting to infer, in your roundabout run on sentence single paragraph way, that some one or more of us may not have the same distaste for you and your ways in person that we do online?

I can assure my responsibility ignoring toady, some of us would not have a single second's hesitation in telling you to your face what we've written here; were that truly what you were, pathetically, attempting to infer.