11/05/2024
So I’m not about drama but when you mess with my family, animals or money I’m not letting it go. I will no longer promote, support or purchase from SGV Mantis and I suggest you all be careful as well. Back in May of this year I purchased a mantis with shipping for $87.55. Paid him upfront figured it would take about a week to ship and then few weeks went by and I didn’t hear anything so I reached out. I’m like “hey no rush but when are you planning on shipping” and he’s like “oh I’m preparing for a show” Another week or 2 went by nothing. Then I reached out again and he said he was prepping for another show. Few weeks went by again and I’m like hey I really need to know when you’re shipping so I can be home. Finally he said he would ship and by that time it was peak 95 degrees here so I said no it’s too hot now. Then we got into July timeframe and at that point, I didn’t even want the mantis anymore because it had been weeks and weeks and message after message and the mantis was already at an L4/L5 so I’m like just keep the money for credit and I’ll get a mantis down the road. Then my dog went through some medical issues and my priorities shifted but I also started hearing he was taking other peoples money and not shipping so i made the decision to request a refund….Well It’s been 6 months now , multiple requests to get my money back, excuse after excuse promises of a refund and still nothing. I gave fair warning that my last message was the last, and then I was gonna just handle it myself and that was about 3 weeks ago. At the end of the day, I have empathy when people are going through things, but when you are a business, you have absolutely no right to accept peoples money and not produce what they paid for and then just keep the money for your own hardship “that’s called theft”. I work very hard for my money and I didn’t give him a donation so it’s extremely unethical at this point. So after multiple attempts to rectify the situation and six months, too long of being patient I will use my platforms to spread the word. FB is small but when I take it to TikTok where I have almost 70K followers and show all the messages from back to May. Maybe people will think twice before they purchase. 
I think what makes me really upset about the situation is that I and others have promoted his business multiple times on TikTok and he def gained followers from us doing so and in return he rips us off?

