I didn’t see a thread like this, so I thought I would start one to share my experience with Eric of DVG:
He was having an invite contest on his discord giving away beans for the top 5 winners. I usually like these contests because while I haven’t been active on Overgrow lately, I do participate in Discord a lot and have my own community on there. So I promoted his discord on mine and a couple of others, and won the contest at the end of Jan. I was pretty pumped, cause like who doesn’t like “free” beans. They’re not really free (in my opinion) because it’s a basic exchange of advertising for product, but let’s call them free anyway.
So, who doesn’t like free beans, right. I gave Eric of DVG (Dungeon Vault) my address and everything seemed great. I followed up with him to ask if he got tracking on my prize (which he valued at $750 during the promotion) and he never responded. Which isn’t terrible, everybody’s busy and it’s not a big deal. But I still hadn’t gotten them, so I followed up. Again, no response.
So I followed up with my buddy who is his moderator. This morning Eric reached out to me and uh, I will let the following pictures speak for themselves. In the third picture he refers to my discord- this is because I had shown people on my community how rude he was being to me.
Have you guys run into other breeders who act like this? It’s crazy people still act like this in this day and age. There’s so many good guys out there (like Bodhi) that I couldn’t imagine putting up with this dude for his packs. So I guess I won the invite giveaway but he won’t send me my prize.
Anyway, I just wanted to share my experience and see if you guys had any to share.
Looks like your blasting him here and on your discord…? I can kinda understand where he’s coming from. He prob didn’t have to respond in this fashion… but if he was reading this post now, do you think he’d be happy about it?
You won some free gear, looks like he has intentions to send it but you’re on the bottom of the priority list. Might be off the list after speaking ill about him on discord… and now here.
Don’t mean to side with anyone, just putting out some critical perspective here, sometimes it’s tough to see from the inside looking out, I’m on the outside and you’ve given me small look in.
Hope you still get your packs, yes some peeps can be rude in their demeanour, I realize I’m likely posing as the devils advocate in this response. 🤷
Yes I’m blasting him because he’s being extremely rude. I was being patient and didn’t expect him to ignore me completely and then accuse me of complaining because I told his mod as such. What would your standards be? It’s been three weeks, and he’s stated very clearly in the last message that he’s not going to send my prize.
No time frame. In my experience people take a couple of weeks at most and stay in communication. He was uncommunicative and I considered his response rude considering I just wanted him to follow up.
I once answered a post from a well known breeder asking for a certain strain. He posted that he would give 20 seeds of one of his strains for 10 of what he wanted in order to make a cross. I sent him the strain he wanted. Upon receipt of him getting my send he informed me that it was the right strain but not the year he needed.
I said fine just send it back to me then. He refused and then stated he wasn’t sending me anything because it wasn’t what he wanted.
About 6 months later he came out with the cross. And no I never got a thing from him.
From my view - if I caught wind of shit being stirred about me when I had every intention on sending out a giveaway and just hadn’t got around to it yet. I prob wouldn’t be pleased. I may not have been rude about it… but I can understand why someone would loose patience with the individual stirring the shit.
In your shoes, I may have just let it play out, it’ was a giveaway after all. Also would have had a second thought about re-blasting him on a new thread on OG. To me it looks like a good way to further the ‘feud’? He’s not here to share his perspective, but I can’t imagine him having a different response to finding a thread like this. No one likes being called out - especially if they don’t think it’s warranted (weather it is or not). Had he had genuine intentions to ‘get to it’, sending your packs, I can understand where some frustration would stem when hearing about you calling him out in your discord. Sounds like you caught him by surprise and he doesn’t have patience for it. That’s what I’m seeing here anyway. Take it or leave it, I probably shouldn’t have gotten involved… haha.
To be clear, he was rude before I even mentioned anything on my community. That’s the reason I had called him out, not because he took a while. You’re giving him the benefit of the doubt, which is nice of you, but I don’t see how his actions warrant it.
I’m nice and patient with people who get back to me, not people who ignore me then act rude to me because I had to contact a staff member about them ignoring me.
Like I said you’ve only given us a glimpse of the entire play out. I didn’t see where he was rude other than the last message in what you’ve posted here.
I hope this gives some closure to your beef.
Outside this beef, I’ve noticed that in some breeding circles some feuds do get heated to degrees that generally arnt warranted. And by the end of it, it’s done more harm than anything else - and either parties can’t recall who threw the first stone or even how exactly it got to that point. Pass one and let it go, reconcile and spread love.
Unfortunately there will always be people who think they don’t have to follow the “rules of a civilized society”.
Weed is supposed to enlighten us but it doesn’t seem to work for everyone.
I’m sorry you didn’t get your part of the agreement.
Though I can definitely see your point of view as well…the childish response was entirely unprofessional and uncalled for.
I think that is more or less what @leetdood is referring towards in the OP.
2 years ago I made a purchase from a breeder directly through his site. On his site he also had autism awareness pins that you could buy for $20 ea.I ordered two.100% of this money was suppose to go towards his non profit. This piece of shit never sent the pins and completely ghosted me over $40 and even had the nerve to block me on IG for simply asking if he was ever going to send them. Its pretty fucking sick to use autism awareness as a front to increase business, take donations at show and online and even use autism awareness to try to get your banned IG account back. If I had the time or patients I would love to F2 all the this dudes gear and give it out freely but im not giving that scumbag another dime.
