another scam artist...? you tell me...

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okay... you guys might have seen this thread... http://www.socalireefs.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27006 sounds like a deal amirite...

well richard (rich1p) said, i'll trade you my smaller back pack then, she said, aight... the deal was that they were gonna ship them out via fed ex... so they do... richard, being a good guy, throws some frags in the mix... he didn't have too, but i guess he felt like he had too since it was just a super deal... he had discount tropical fish bag everything up and shipt it out for him... since they ship stuffs all the time... okay... so they ship it out... that day fed ex calls him that a bag popped... they open up the box for him and the manager at fed ex inspects everything for him...

he said that the skimmer was un damaged, and it was just one bag that popped... messed up the box... so they gave him a new box, and the guy at fed ex packed it up again for him and sent it on it's way that same day... richard got the box but didn't open it... then he gets a text from her saying that the skimmer got there all damaged and complete trash... so he feels bad, and says, oh, well send it back and you send my broken skimmer back out... so he sends the box completely un opened back...

he gets a box in the mail, and when he opens it, it's this...




OMG...


so he lets her know... she didn't text him or PM him back for a couple of days... then finally, "oh i'm sorry, but i can't talk right now"... then he gets a text saying "hi, i just talked to my husband, he said that he thought it was trash and threw it away because it was all broken up" WTF...? that her husband sent out the wrong pakage... supposedly her and her husband have 3 reef tanks... he's gonna know WTF kind of reef shenanigans arΘ going on in his house... right...? he knows the difference between a FW and SW filter... c'mon... that's so stupid...

now she's like... "oh well" and now, well, richard is pretty much arsed out... and today she asked for her thread to be locked, since she's running a smaller skimmer...

man... so what do you guys think...?? srsly...
 
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why would anyone ship out that dirty crusty gross freshwater filter...????


WHY!!!???... why would he put it in a box and mail it out...??? OMG!!!...
 
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Iiiifff the skimmer was in fact broken is one thing but once it went from that to shipping a crusty tetra filter claiming they threw away the skimmer is completely ridiculous. The obvious moral thing to do at that point was to say to yourself Woops we messed up and threw away the item before we can send it back so maybe we should offer some type of compensation. At least that is what I would do.

BUT I am a believer of two sides to a story so lets see what she has to say. I'm really intrigued now.

Sorry to hear this happened to you Rich.
 

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Not only that, but looking at the pic, there are way too many parts for one HoB there. There are two intake tubes with impellers and two media frames. Did he just grab some stuff outta the trash and throw it in the box?
 

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Why would you toss it in the trash anyway? Wouldnt you want to show it to the sender? something here is very sketchy.....
 
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Thanks you Luis(toromp).I really appreciate it.. I'm Just gonna do a water change and hopefully get one next week..

I really don't understand why they would "accidentally" throw it in the trash.. If it were me, I would send it back immediately.. As I did when i received hers..

I think we all know the difference between a HOB fw filter and a skimmer, Don't we?
 

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