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Post by joee30 on Feb 5, 2013 19:12:48 GMT -8
I like to play with their simple, scammer heads. I pretend to be interested in their "stock", and offer them a ridiculous amount of money, and to pay for shipping. then I vanish for a couple of days. Then come all the sad and some rather pathetic excuses as to why I must send them money. I had many offer my bugs that are endemic to the USA, Mexico, and Europe, but that were very common in Cameroon. lol I have had a couple beg and pleads to send them money, and I had a bloke try to give me a sob story about how he runs a website for orphans and needs money to help them. All in all, I let them know that they are scammers and thieves, and then I don't hear a peep from them. I feel very bad for people that fall for these guys tricks.
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Post by joee30 on Jan 6, 2013 12:39:08 GMT -8
So would Papilio(polexenes)color fall under machaon? I'm behind in the nomenclature dept.
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Post by joee30 on Jan 3, 2013 14:53:05 GMT -8
I bet he is from an african nation. lol I had a couple of african scammers try and tell me that they had endemic us butterflies that are really common in cameroon and tanzania, and at a ridiculous price. lol
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Post by joee30 on Jan 1, 2013 13:05:04 GMT -8
I'd love to get Mecynorrhina ugandensis and poggei torquata, but they are very expensive and ebay is too competitive. I'd also love to get my hands on a pair of Stepanocrates doherty, S. preussi, and Compsocephalus dmitreiu. Maybe one of these days.
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LOL
Oct 29, 2012 11:37:05 GMT -8
Post by joee30 on Oct 29, 2012 11:37:05 GMT -8
I find it funny that there are some dealers on there that have very common species, like the Zebra Swallowtail (Eurytides marcellus) or Dynastes tityus, yet they are very rare and ask for a ridiculous price.
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Post by joee30 on Oct 28, 2012 16:27:31 GMT -8
I feel bad for the poor sap that will far for this scammers trick. The more people fall for their lies and send money for rare bugs at ridiculously cheap prices, how can you go wrong? It is sad indeed.
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Post by joee30 on Oct 17, 2012 16:37:36 GMT -8
here i am in Australia 3 weeks ago, up in the Mountains of Ballina New South Wales. i was catching Graphium macleayanus and Ornithoptera richmondia. i happen to stumble across a snake that i couldn't resist myself from picking it up haha Is that a Morelia or carpet python? Those are nice snakes. I'm in the military, so I have some time to dedicate to collecting and the hobbies. I've bought some beetles the past week and have been working on a parnassius collection. At some point, I will need to start trading for specimens from Australia and New Zealand.
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Post by joee30 on Oct 6, 2012 13:48:03 GMT -8
I bet the money will have to be sent western union to Cameroon or Tanzania because they are on a collecting trip there, and those species are probably very abundant there. what a bunch of idiots, but the bigger idiots are the people that fall for ads like these.
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Post by joee30 on Sept 21, 2012 15:29:29 GMT -8
they'll always find someone to sell the claws to. It is sad that poachers get away with things like this.
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Post by joee30 on Sept 17, 2012 14:31:34 GMT -8
There is no need to argue over who is selling what on Ebay. Who cares! I agree with Stringer about the legality of the raptor claws, if they have been just hacked of a freshly killed bird.
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Post by joee30 on Aug 2, 2012 14:22:22 GMT -8
I can get it when I go to California on leave. I know several spots where it grows. I wouldn't mind trading specimens or pupae. I can collect H. maia here in numbers in october.
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Post by joee30 on Aug 2, 2012 12:16:46 GMT -8
I'd love to get some of those and rear them as well. Do you ever get any ova from them?
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Post by joee30 on Jul 30, 2012 5:50:36 GMT -8
I would say Ft. Campbell, but it's a military base. I live there. lol Land Between the Lakes looks like it has great habitat.
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Post by joee30 on Jul 17, 2012 14:54:29 GMT -8
Nice to hear that Clark. I wonder what she has in stock? By the way, do you know of anyone who will be raising Hemileauca species this year?
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Post by joee30 on Jun 18, 2012 11:49:19 GMT -8
The thing that got me was that that person just copied and pasted the names of the bugs I named, and said that they were very common in their area in Africa. I wanted to call them out on it so bad, but instead, I will have them get pissed off when they get a western union call to pick up their money and it will be a buck, than a thousand dollars.
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