Had an issue with Shinobi that I thought I should share with the community to help any potential future customers of his make a more informed decision about doing business with him. I purchased 3 clones off of him, he claims that he only sells and ships large clones that could actually be considered teens, and very well rooted. He mailed them on a Thursday with regular priority which is a huge no-no as anyone that ships clones can tell you, if you're going to chance clones with regular priority you have to send them in the beginning of the week, the people I typically deal with only ship express, 2 clone shippers fit into a $26 flat rate padded bag so it's a no brainer. The following Tuesday they arrive, 2 are dead and appear to have been dead for at least some time, the 3rd is barely standing up, sometimes I can save them when they're that beat up but it's hit or miss, by Tuesday evening it is dead. I told Shinobi and he requested pictures. OK, I get it you want proof, I mean I don't know what I'd have to gain by having you resend the same clones if they lived but ok I'll send you pictures dead clones that's fine. Took a couple days to get him to respond with a phone number I could text pictures to. He sees them and agrees that they are dead and he has some just coming out of the cloner. After asking several times over the course of several days when he anticipates on sending them he asks what clones needed replacing again. I tell him and he goes silent. 8 days go by, I message him on IG and although he didn't read my message he has been active. I text him and the iMessage says delivered so that means his phone is powered on, has service, and received my iMessages. He's added new auctions on Strainly as well during this timeframe. So on the 8th day I assume he doesn't want to bother with replacing the clones and it's easier to just keep my money, I sent the payment with the PayPal friends and family option so there isn't much I can do. I file a dispute anyways and in the notes I put down that it was an unauthorized transaction. One hour later he messages me back and tells me a storm came through and he's been without power and that he just got my messages, pretty big coincidence right? 8 days without hearing from him and he responds 1 hour after filing a dispute? lol ok. Anyway, the next day the dispute is closed, PayPal tells me they can't refund the transaction which I expected anyways. Now Shinobi tells me the money got yanked from his account and he can't send until he gets the money back after the dispute was closed out by PayPal. I show him screenshots showing that it is indeed closed and no refund was issued to me. He tells me he hasn't gotten the money back and that it could take a month for him to get the money back into his account and he's worried that if he sends the clones now that I will keep the money. Ok, so I tell him again the money was not refunded to me and the case is closed, he argues with me playing the victim card about the natural disaster and its not his fault he didn't have service and he thinks I'm going to screw him over. In reality he actually did have service because my iMessages went through as delivered and he was active on IG and new listings were listed on strainly. So now we are at the point where he's telling me the case is still open with PayPal (it definitely is not) the money was yanked from his account and now he has limitations (I highly doubt that as the case was closed in less than a day of me opening it) and he can't send me the clones because he's too afraid that I'm going to take the money and run (again impossible, the money was never refunded to me and the case is closed). So now knowing that I will never get these clones or my money I tell him to keep the clones and the money, it's more the principal to me than anything else $225 or whatever it was I don't even really care about.. So here's what really happened, He mailed out barely rooted clones the cheapest way he could, they came in dead, when I informed him about the dead clones he put me on the back burner and then eventually figured it was too much of a hassle and I can't leave bad feedback because I didn't buy them through strainly because I merely messaged him to buy them, so fuck it just keep my money, then when I disputed the transaction he came up with his little natural disaster story and acted all friendly, didn't mention the PayPal thing at all until after the case was closed, so after the case was closed now he can play hardball because he doesn't stand to lose any money and he tried to turn it around like I'm the shyster lol.
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