I was one of the folks that had a bad experience dealing with shawn about a year and a half ago....I never made it public, only a few members here knew about it.
My problem was that the ray pups came in super skinny and near death, I bought 3 pups, 1 died in 2 days, another one died in 3 weeks. NONE of them ever eat. I have tried everything under the sun and they would not eat. I've been keeping rays for over 5-6 years. I know the "dril" when it comes to hunger strike.
I told him what had happened, I didn't expect anything, after all, all I had was a LIVE ARRIVAl guarantee. He swore that they ate, but I let it go...what was done was done.
A few years later, I found that he was "overwhelmed" with all the thailand orders. He literally came out of nowhere and selling 30 rays at a time. Most came from thailand, a lil came from columbia. He also had a business partner at that time. Long story short, I think the timing was off and most if not ALL of the problems that arose happened during this time with the thailand orders.
I believe he's banned from MFK for similar reason, but the few that vouch for him have said nothing but great things about his stock ever since the thailand ordeal.
My opinion, I think he has gotten better. His posts on aquabid all looks healthy. I think he's a little bit more "relaxed" now and not pressured as he was on the thailand ordeal. If you do a search under MNstingray, you will see his how many posts that he had. At one time, he started 2-3 different threads with at least 10-20 rays on each thread. I can imagine how overwhelmed one person can be with that many request and orders.
That's my $ .02, this is the first time I made the story public since it happened (spring 2010)
Stan