Another Rant----Sorry

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Fdfiremedic

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I know this may sound petty but it bothers me to see this. I had a fellow reefer come buy live rock out of my 3 tier tank I recently tore down. I sold all the rock to him for $150 which came out to about $1 a pound. I now see it up for sale for $3.50 pound. You stated you were trying to add to a existing tank and I was trying to help you out but then you posted pictures with 3 bins loaded of rock. It's also posted all over craigslist. It's morally wrong to buy people's stuff on here claiming you need help or taking it for free and then trying to re-sell it for a profit. Not to mention it's against reef central rules I believe. You know who you are on here and so do many others so I wont call you out. Just letting you know I would have sold it to you as well for $3.50 a pound and made that profit for myself had I known your intentions. I was trying to be a nice guy and help a fellow reefer out, not profit on them. You even brought a scale to my house stating people were selling rock for more than the pds they had stated. Shame on you!!!!!!!
 
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This club thrives when people help others out in this club. Giving out good deals and receiving good deals is what helps keep us all in this hobby. Not by getting a deal and marking it up to make a profit. Thats helps NO ONE in our club!!!!!!!
 
I agree I think people should stop giving stuff to him just because he's the first to respond... and let some other reefers have it that need it and will use it, not try to profit from it...
 
He tried to do the same thing to me, fortunately I wasn't available to meet him, then I saw him selling it and figured he didn't need it anymore. He told me he needed it for a new setup.
He was offering me a really low price also. I was wondering if he was going to turn it around and sell it. When I ended up selling it to someone else he PM'd me that I was selling "his" rock.
 
we all know who this is! you can def. see a pattern with this guy. in one of his for sale threads he specifically tells you he bought it from this guy and has the jingle bells to sell it again a month later. this is why i will never buy off of him no matter how good his/your stuff is . ben its called karma, im a big believer and it will come and get him in the long run.
 
I have lost out on a couple of things before to this guy because I didn't respond before him and I definitely could use the break financially.
 
I am new to this community, but I dealt with him on Craigslist and drove an hour to meet him for rock and he never showed up! Now, I find him on here and it's quite disappointing! It's terrible to do something like that, but hopefully with all of the posts, people can be a little more aware of it! Glad to see you are letting people know!!
 
Your right Wayne maybe I will take the kids to get a Frosty or Nutty buddies and chill out and maybe he now will too lol
 
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i think there was just a frost warning issued till 9 pm for the following sites......craigslist, reefcentral, and the surrounding areas
 
thats funny, ive never dealt with the guy, but got bad vibes from someone coming out of the blue and buying and selling stuff like there is no tomorrow. shrug, i like the new frosty shakes myself.
 
Im new to reefcentral and i have been getting alot of tip and meeting some new people from this site that are really nice people, trying to help me out and it really is not cool to know that there are people out there trying to take advantage of fellow hobbyist. And then turns around and post in Cleveland area threads..... knowing that, just from this post i know who not to deal with thank you
 
wow didn't know you guys had such strong feelings towards me untill i checked out this thread today, ben, i'm sorry for buying your rocks at asking price. maybe i should have offered you more money. and to think that i drove out ten mins and drove back to your house to help you post pics of your tank on here with my digital camra because yours was broken.

monti steve, i bought that green zoa rock from you when no one else wanted it. you just wanted to get rid of it so bad so i bought it from you because i like zoas. now im selling it because it's out grown the area it was at before and theres more polyps then when i bought it from you.

jefft321 you were selling rock because you didn't need it anymore so i offered to buy it. you were away for business over a month so i found someone else selling rock that i needed. and yes, i was planning on using all of the rock i bought. my cusin danny wanted me to set up his 125g while he reads up on saltwater. i almost bought the 125g until he told me he changed his mind about it because of funds. so all the rock i bought, what was i going to do with it? resale it at the same price i bought it for after taking the time and energy to dive to BFE to get it? and how can i sell it all for the same price if there's a big difference in base rock and live rock which was mostly base rock when i bought it from ben. there were two nice peices and they are in my main display tank.

PirateFish52 is it really my fault that i got to the thread before you did i mean geezz, if you wanted something that bad you could have just told me. i would pass up anything if someone wanted it bad enough.

Kristinensky when did you drive an hour to buy rock and if you did why didn't you call me?! i have my number everywhere. if you look at your rock need thread, i responded and i said i would be available monday for pickup. today is monday and i['m at home typing out all of this because i'm trying defend my rep. i'm still available and i['m only a phone call away.

aadler i do buy and sell like theres no tomorrow because i love a good deal if i can get it and sell what ever i don't need or want anymore.

anyone who has spent some time around me knows who i am and i don't need to try to defend myself from all of this but its because i do care about what you guys think i have to say something.

anyone who has bought anything from me has not been disappointed because i do go out of my way to try to get them the best i can. when kevin bought four fish from me and three died, i give him his Full refund letting him keep the one still alive. when i sold my tricolors i try to frag at least 5 heads per frag. when jeff trout asked for micro algea i was the first one there with a full bucket of calurpa and he gave me some very nice stuff for it and i was very thankful. the second time i came over to his for some small rocks for my 3g picotope i gave him more money then what he was asking for because he give me an anemone for free. the same anemone i'm selling now because hes moving too much in my tank. i always posted high so someone can shoot me an offer and i stated all things obo. i didn't get ****ed when i paid 5 buck for a small frag of xenia when anaelitz promised me a nice chunk, i didn[t get mad when i paid 15 bucks for a good chunk of grape monti plate when i received two nail size peices. i just bit my tonge and smiled.

so no everyone is getting on me for sale coral.. i bought the told stools for 15 a peice and try to sell it for 10, im selling zoas way bellow what reefkingdom is selling for and yet i'm being bashed.
why do people sell coral then if it's not to make a little money to keep up with this expensive hobby? why is there a livestock selling forum if everyone should give it away? it's fine for people not to like me but it's not ok to try to make me out as a bad person when you don't even know me. yes i do win raffle prizes and yes i did pay for my tickets just like you did. if you want to win too then buy more tickets. the shrimps i got, are awsome thanks to who ever picked the prizes
 
I dealt with you on Craigslist. I'm not going to support anything from someone who buys something for a certain price,.. knowing you were just going to turn around and sell it for 3 times what you bought it for! That's just wrong! I'd much rather wait and buy it from someone who is really trying to help me out and one day I can help them out in return. This hobby isn't about taking a deal and then screwing the next person over!
 
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