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On Aug. 3, 2016 I put down a deposit of $350.00 through PayPal to hold 2 standard, male munchkin kittens that were advertised on Hoobly under the name catlola (her name is Lexus Troutman). The payments were sent to her partner, Robin Mitchell ([protected]@gmail.com). The address listed on Hoobly as Lexus's address is 115 North St., Harrisburg, PA 17111. Photos and texts were exchanged over the next month. Unfortunately, I am unable to get the photos of the kittens to copy here.
We had arranged and agreed to pick the kittens up on Aug. 27th in Coal Township, at the Coal Bowl bowling alley(1380 Tioga St., Coal Township, PA 17866), which is about 2 hours north of Harrisburg, PA. We waited about 2 and 1/2 hours. She never showed up with the kittens. Then we arranged for her to bring the kittens to Winchester, VA. on Aug. 31, 2016. She was to call me when she got to the VA line so we could arrange a specific meeting location. She never called, texted, or showed up with the kittens on that date. I am out my $350.00 deposit I paid to have her hold the kittens for me. She never responded to my last two texts that were sent at 6:24 pm and 6:32 pm on Aug. 31st when I inquired as to her where abouts.

On May 1, 2016 I sent a deposit for a English bulldog puppy via western union to a Kathy Rose, located at 128 Greystone Rd, Bassett, VA 24055. She picked the money up from western union and did show her drivers license. Her son promised to send me a bill of sale which I never received. I tried calling the number I was given at [protected] so someone answered but just left the phone on and never talked to me. I finally got a hold of him by text and requested either a bill of sale or refund of my money. He told me he was at work and agreed to send me either and he would get a hold of me the next day. I have not heard from him since then and he has four more ads up on Hoobly.com. I have reported the ads but they have yet to be taken down. His membership name is Allstar1980 and he claims to live in North Carolina. The cellphone is registered in Martinsville, Virginia some 125 miles away for Greensboro. This guy took advantage of me and I hate to see all the others that he may do the same to advertising dogs at $1000.00 a piece. I just lost my dog of fourteen years to cancer and really would like a new best friend. I am on a fixed income and the money I sent him I had been saving for a while. I guess I was ignorant and should have done more research on how do handle these kind of transactions. I am a kind hearted and honest person this just makes me mad that people have to take advantage of others. The tracking number on the western union is [protected]. I will be calling western union back in ten days to file a fraud report and I will be addressing the situation with a letter to hoobly.com who should have some way of protecting the people that use their site.

I bought a puppy off Hoobly web site on Ja uary 31, 2016...the guy i bought her from said she was full blooded Shih Tzu, but she's not, she is Shih Tzu a nd Chihuahua, she was 8 weeks old, he was from Lansing Mi.. and he told me to pick up at the Meijers gas station in Greenville at 3 o'clock pm, so we meet him there..i called him when i found out she isn't what he told me she is and i told him i want my money bach and he said just love her and she is cute...sohow can i get my money back? my name is Margaret Santose phone number [protected], e-mail [protected]@frontier.com
His contact number is [protected] and his user name is peppens on the Hoobly site

A listed ad showed the location as Tampa, could be right, but... they referred me to an email address: [protected]@gmail.com. This is her "co-breeder". I made contact and exchanged 6-8 emails with vague results to Deborah Yount. Cute puppy pictures that "were taken just this morning". But when I asked her for a picture of puppy A with puppy B, things went silent. She insisted on pushing the transaction right then, they were in Indiana, supposedly, but the time stamp show 5 hours later with a GMT time zone. She gave me a name of someone who would be my delivery system for the pet... I could not find that person in Ft. Wayne, IN directory. She offered two references, I heard back from one with rave reviews, phrased very much like the original emails.
The original email contact on the ad was: [protected]@mail.com.
There was also a scam alert with the same email address involved.
They were willing to send me the pup anywhere for a flat $150 before they even knew which airport to send it to. I may be wrong, but this smelled real bad... Scam! Watch out!

The ad was posted 10/1/15 or 10/2/15 for full blooded lab puppies for sale in Belleville, MI. Ad stated they had 2 black males, a chocolate male, and a yellow female for sale with pictures. I made contact with the phone number listed on the ad [protected] on Friday 10/2. On Sat 10/3 we made the 45 minute commute to Belleville to look at the pups. They only had 1 black male left (so they claimed). I asked the guy for his address, he sent me an address. Upon arriving to what my maps on my phone said was our destination, there was not a house. I text the guy telling him we were looking for his place and he said "oh, we are meeting at the BP gas station". We were buying this pup as a surprise for our kids, so they were with us. They were so excited to get out and play with this little guy. Then the guy says, oh, he was born without a tail. So my husband and I talked about it, the kids loved him, so we decided to still go ahead and buy him. On 10/14 the puppy had a lot of diarrhea and threw up. On 10/15 my husband took him to our vet. The vet said no doubt one of the parents was a lab, but the dog is definitely a mix with something AND they definitely had his tail docked. And to top it all off, his bacteria counts in his urine were so high that the vet said he definitely had the infection before we bought him. I attempted to contact "Tony" as that is how he introduced himself to us and have not gotten a response at all. Rude, inconsiderate, disrespectful, sick human being to sell a family a puppy and lie about it on the ad that was posted and in person. Very disappointed that he hasn't contacted us back. All we are asking for is information on what he is mixed with. He's our baby now and we've rescued him from a very bad situation apparently, but he could at least do us the favor of letting us know what he is mixed with and why he lied to us about the tail. The ad is obviously no longer posted, but this was the link to the ad: http://www.hoobly.com/An1FZ/labrador-retriever-pup.htm Desirable resolution for this complaint: 1) To know what our lab puppy is mixed with, so that we know for our own information. 2) Our money back for the full blooded lab that we paid for that we did not get. We paid $225 for him and we've already spent $235 in vet bills to find out what was wrong with him and put him on antibiotics for 12 days for the infection.

I put a deposit on a kitten that carrieh1, P.O. Box 6546, Kingsport, Tn 37663, [protected]@gmail.com, [protected] KNEW had highly contagious and very difficult to treat ringworm. She didn't disclose the ringworm infection until we met in person for me to pick up my $700 shorthair persian kitten.
When I told her of my past experience with ringworm and that I couldn't have a pet that had ringworm due to the health risks involved for my two children and dog, she refused to refund my deposit.
This seller knew the kitten had ringworm before she accepted my deposit and never shared that information with me.
Buyers beware, if not for your $, for your health.

i signed up for hoobly to post for sale adds after 1 week i was unable to post my adds without signing up my phone number last time i did this my text bill was run up i do not think any web site should be permitted to force a user to give out their phone number it is a invasion of privacy

There is a couple from Philadelphia who breed English Bull Terrier, they keep there dogs tied up in the yard where one of the dogs jumped the fence and hung himself they also keep these dogs in small cages sacked on top of one another, they breed for money and not for the health or quality of the breed, they go on the internet looking to buy more English bull terriers to breed then after they are done with the dogs they resell the dogs for more money, do not sell your puppies or adult dogs to these people they won't be going to a good home, don't purchase a puppy or adult dog from them these dogs never had any veternary care, it's very sad how these dogs live...don't let these people fool you they are also being investigated for animal cruelty and neglect.

Hoobly has gotten so spam filled with advertisers running spam filled ads over and over again and it goes unchecked by hoobly.com.

I would not use hoobly.com as chances are your personal information will be listed for all to see and you will get a ton of spam to your email and headaches begin