Aquabid: Captnralph ...whats with this guy?

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Calihawk

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I see some MFK members have gotten fish off him and its all gravy, but what a sketchy guy. Captnralph.

I bought and paid for a BGJD female 3", and after a few days he says that he is worried now because he had some Kordon breather bags break on him, WHAT? IDK if 3" cichlid thrashing around in a Kordon is safe or either considered to begin with. I've had LFS triple bag 3" cichlids and get leaky by the time I get home. So I told him that if he is that unsure and with his lack of shipping confidence, I should get a refund. Few Days passes, NO WORD. I left more emails and Ralph finally says he'll ship and provide tracking no later than Wednesday. Come Thursday, then Friday, then Paypal Resolution center to file a claim against a waste of my time.

This is his "Situation" I guess, considering he has no time for customers:
ahoy there, i am selling all of my fish stock and breeders except my electric jack dempsey who i have grown to love, reason: my wife has been lying and cheating on me for the entire year i have been married to her, i am flat broke because of her and have to move into a roomate situation, though it breaks my heart in so many ways I have no other option but to sell off my only true happiness in life with the exception of my children, I have one thanks to Deb, she brought me to aqua bid, i love this site and all associated with it, please bid away on this auction so i can raise the money to move out, pic up soon, this pair is beautiful, the colors on these Jacks are amazing, they were purchased from a respected breeder on this site, egg clutches of 250 or more, excellent parents, the female is missing one of her pectoral fins, absolutely not a defect, she lost it fighting for her male, I lost three females, she was beaten up bad and i nursed her back and she is very happy and healthy, shipping is 12.00, sincerely CR ( I will still be selling driftwood and i will be back selling fish better than ever once this is behind me )

His latest feedbacks and posts are around what would be this Unfortunate Ordeal, so I can't see that it affected him too much. Also starts out with "Ahoy!"...if I was going through a divorce or the likeness I wouldn't have any Ahoy in me. Nor would I post my most personal situations on every Aquabid post, telling the WHOLE fish community of being cheated on...Hey how come the whole world knew but I couldnt get a simple email stating the situation, I'd be more understanding

He has bad feedback too...also note that half the people with BAD experiences are so irritated they dont even bother to leave Bad Comments. So Im sure theres more.
 
Update:
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Resolution of Your Case: #PP-001-973-@@@@@@@@----------------------------------------------------------------------




We have concluded our investigation into your case and have decided in your
favor.

We were able to recover $26.00 USD and this amount has been credited to
you. Please allow five business days for this adjustment to be posted.

If you are due any additional funds, we will make our best effort to
recover the balance from the seller.


If the seller's account has insufficient funds to complete the refund owed
to you, please be assured that we will take appropriate action against the
seller's account, which may include limitation of the seller's account
privileges.


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Transaction Details
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Seller's Name: Ralph Roenbeck
Seller's Email: mrroenbeck@gmail.com
Seller's Transaction ID: 3PR27119EM729422U

Transaction Date: Aug 20, 2012
Transaction Amount: -$26.00 USD
Your Transaction ID: 71C72439X
Case Number: PP-001-973
 
HighBackRTG said:
That is strange. When I bought fish from him recently, everything went smoothly. I don't know what's going on but it does seem a tad bit... sketchy to say the least.


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Reminds me of a few THAI sellers, builds a little reputation with customers, then starts selling bigger stuff and disappears of the face of earth.

LOL, Ahoy mates, my wife cheated on me and I just got testicular cancer, however Im selling some beautiful fishes. Yo Ho Ho
 
It is a strange situation. There was a note that his account was under investigation at one point, however there no longer is and his auctions have continued.

At best he seems flakey and a lot of his feedback seems to be buying or selling driftwood.

Calihawk said:
Reminds me of a few THAI sellers, builds a little reputation with customers, then starts selling bigger stuff and disappears of the face of earth.

LOL, Ahoy mates, my wife cheated on me and I just got testicular cancer, however Im selling some beautiful fishes. Yo Ho Ho
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I also bought fish from him with the same experience. When I won the bid he was quick to answer questions, but after I sent payment he pretty much stopped all communication. He hasn't shipped the fish the days he said he was going too so I had too file a claim with the credit card company.
 
I am his unfurtunate wife. Sorry for the spelling, I have an autoimmune disease that is terminal and it has affected my brain functions. I would like to tell you that Ralph is a con artist. He treated me so nice when we met. I was already disabled, but not diagnosed yet. We met, had alot in common and he is a charmer. We go married, moved to our own house, and the real ralph came out. He was abusive not physically, but mentally. Which is worse to me because I was disabled first for mental reasons. I was however raising fish, selling them, had great feedback. He got into it and helped me, and then when I just mentioned that I was going to leave him, he posted all of my fish as his and sold them all. He did ship those and got the money, I got nothing. I never cheated on him, or even thought about it. I was very ill by this time and was pretty much bedridden and I had no idea what he was doing. The only reason I now can speak freely, is he is in jail where he belongs. He took money, jewelry, my pain medicine and fish. I use to work for the FBI as a Fingerprint Examiner, and made alot of money because of lots of overtime. So I had alot of nice things when I did have to go on disibility. I took very good care of them because I knew I would never be able to afford them again. Well con man Ralph made sure I lost every single thing I treasured. He told lies about me to my family and they believed him and it has taken me a year of living with my mom again after I left him for her to finally trust me again and we are now regaining trust and love. I am bedridden now. I have finally been diagnosed by a Ruehmatologist, and I have the terminal disease of behcet's. Its an autoimmune disease that after looking at all my records, the DRs figured I have had it for 20 years. Stress is a huge factor of this disease. The stress that man caused me made a terrible flare come out that gave me all the symptoms that come out like mouth ulcers, skin ulcers, and loss of alot of my sight, symptoms of the disease, so thats how I was diagnosed. He never believed me that I was sick. He always put me down because I could not clean the house as he wanted me to. But he quit working 3 months after we got married and lived off my disablilty and his sales on aquabid. There is so much he did to me, and if I told it all you would not believe that a person could live with the abuse I recieved because I was sick. I never cheated or even had a thought of that and I never lied to him. He just would not believe that I was in the pain I was in and I kept getting worse, and he got angrier and more abusive the sicker I became, and I finally had the courage, thanks to the wonderful people at the abuse hotline, to leave him. He had no money, no job, no place to live, nothing. My mom who at that time still believed him, let him come stay here! I was dumfounded. But I figured I was safe with her here, so I said I would not put up a fuss for one month if he stayed away from me and if we did happen to have to be in the same room or talk about something, he had to be nice. Well Ralph just could not keep the real Ralph hidden anymore during that time, so now my family finally saw what I took for the two years I was with him. So my mom asked him to leave and he went to NY where he was born. Well he got even worse there and was arrested and put in jail where he belongs. He is a very vengefull person and I am kinda of scared of what he will do when he gets out, but I really rather die than deal with him and this disease I have which just keeps getting worse because he constantly calls me, like 30 times a day, and he knows I don't have money to pay for him to call and I wouldn't do it anyway. I did put 25 on the phone so we could talk business and figure out what to do. I want an anullment, I want it to be like my marriage to him never existed. It makes me sick that lies about me will be on the net forever. I rue the day I met that man. And the last thing I will say about him, is he had the nerve to ask me two days ago, to come to his bond hearing that he arranged, to tell the judge that he needed to bond out to take care of his dying wife. What a person, Huh? And then asked if my mom would sign for his bond?!?! I told him he is crazy. She sees everyday what the stress and abuse has done to me. I won't go into details too much, but usually with behcet's, you have flares, with ulcerative sores in mouth, on body ect and they are supposed to go away in two weeks, but I have been in this horrible flare with all the symptoms of Behcets for almost a year now. So I just want ed to tell my side and let you know he is a bad person. At the end he sold alot of fish and driftwood on aquabid and never sent the stuff out, or if he did, he did not pack it right and most died in transport. I got no money from this. But when I found out what he did, I did try for a couple months to make things right to as many of the people as I could because I felt horrible that I had introduced him to aquabid. I still have alot of tanks and fish that I can not care for as well as I should, because before he went to NY, he set up tanks in my moms garage, and just left them for me to deal with. So if I ever get over this flare, I will be back on aquabid, newtonhill is my handle if I remember correctly, this disease takes your memory away too, but I will be back, God willing and The fish are nice fish. So if I get back on there and you want to see and buy some nice BG Jacks, Swords, and others stay tuned. Feel free to email me at debnewtonhill@gmail.com Which is my new email that is on my phone so it is easier for me to check and keep up with. I don't have much use of my right arm right now because I have such bad inflamation in the shoulder joint which causes horrible pains to shoot down my arm and in my neck, and my hand is almost totally numb except for the stinging tingles and ulcers at the end of my fingers that will not go away.. this disease is very rare and I am finding it to be hard to get help for some of my symptoms, so if you know anyone familiar with this disease, please get in touch with me. But what I was going to say about my arm, is it is hard to get on the computer and type, so I can check the new email on the phone I have. I am sorry if he scammed you, I wish I could do something to pay you back, but he sold all of my beautiful breeders that I had, so I have to start over and breed the fish he left and offer them when I get some nice fish. But if I don't get over this flare soon, I will be selling his adult fish because it is so hard for me to care for them. So please send me good wishes, prayers whatever positive vibes and believes you have, because I could really use some positive thoughts, energy in my life right now. Deb.:help2:
 
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I realize you're seeking out positivity in this, but assuming what you say is true (which, frankly, I'm assuming) this seems like a story that should get more attention. Scam artists are often publicized, as they should be. If you've got evidence, court records, pictures, n' stuff, do you think it would be worth sending them to blogs or news media to try to get more attention? It sounds like you've suffered terribly at the hands of this awful guy.
 
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