Beetles 4 life, beetles & beyond, luke mcgroggan

jake7917

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Ordered from this guy feb 6, we emailed back and forth for a bit, then he went silent for 3 days after I sent him money. Got a response on the 9th, then ignored me for another 5 days. Got another response. I asked for a refund then Ignored me until the 18 before saying he sent it already. Asked for tracking number and he didn’t respond until the 1st saying he didn’t use tracking. Claims I scammed him because his PayPal was missing money that was different from our transaction amount. It’s march 13th and I’m still waiting for a response after emailing him multiple times again. Package has yet to arrive and I never got a refund.

TLDR bad at responding, didn’t use tracking. Communication is not good. Don’t think package was sent. buyers be warned

 
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@jake7917
Same experience here very recently.
He got my money, no beetles for over two weeks.

He said he is gonna ship it for three times, but he failed to do so, not responding messages in timely manner.

He said he is going to refund me, but he never did yet. I filed a claim on PayPal, and currently waiting for the PayPal to resolve this issue.

For the additional info about this scammer:
Beetles & Beyond
Luke behind the Slaughter
luke.mcgroggan@gmail.com
discord: Luke behind the slaughter#9685
954 348 7229
PayPal: Christina Smith, yankee0213@gmail.com

 
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Over half of the larvae arrived dead due to bad packaging when I first ordered from him. You could tell he was new to this hobby. Some of the larvae that he sent weren't even Lucanus elaphus(which I ordered). He sent me replacements after I sent him money for shipping but I received more than 40% dead again due to bad packaging even though I told him how he should package his larvae. Overall, I do not recommend buying from this seller unless he changes his ways of packaging.

 
This is also the same person posting here (@everthing-beetles)

I've had the exact same experience.  I sent them the money over 2 months ago, and they stopped responding to me immediately once they had the money.  No updates or products shipped.

I recently escalated my issue with Paypal to get my money back and reported this seller today on an Invert marketplace Discord and several other people chimed in with the exact same story.  This appears to be a clear consistent pattern with this seller -- taking money and then refusing to send products or reply with information to people once they have the $

 
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Hello beetles & beyond here if you're reading this I just wanted to say I'm sorry for everything I really messed up and now that's coming back to haunt me I should have managed the money better I'm currently homeless and recently lost my job  done with life my bank account and my PayPal are both in the negatives i can't afford to pay my medical bills or apply for a lone do to my new credit score for all who got scammed if I end up not killing myself or in a better place where I can send your stuff I will try to do that it's been a long path on my invertebrate journey I'm sorry for my foolish decisions thank you I will now go to the place I belong hell of course goodbye

 
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