Www.aquacon.com

[SoLiD]

They can't hide anything on the Internet!!!

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.aquacon.com

[DrMark]

I always heard bad things about this company.

[Mr Cob]

I just spent a bit of time grazing through all the complaints about this company/group all over the net! Crazy! Stuff!

They even steal images and use them and then manipulate the colors drastically and pose the coral as being several different types/colors! LOL! Classic!

Thanks for posting and making us aware.

[brewercm]

They even steal images and use them and then manipulate the colors drastically and pose the coral as being several different types/colors! LOL! Classic!

Now if this is true you may be able to do something after all as though that this is illegal and can possibly be handled by the correct authorities. Probably someone even close by that has been burned that would love to shut them down and throw them in jail for fraud.

[glennr1978]

Updated with the "Actual Older Photo Advertisement" I saw.

Old Contact Information
Order Line: 800-798-7625
Tech Line: 954-572-0033
Fax Line: 954-746-2992

Mailing & Showroom Address
4613 North University Drive
Lauderhill, Florida 33351



They are up to their old ways again.
http://www.nano-reef.com/forums/inde...owtopic=179965

NEVER BUY ANYTHING FROM AQUACON.COM !!!!


-David

Wow David, that sucks!!! The thing on nano reef is kinda silly IMO, but I would be PO'ed if that happened to me (your situation, not the nano reef thing).

My family and I take trips to Fl about twice a year. Maybe I could pay them a visit for you the next time I'm out there....

[mikedelgado]

My gf got me that for xmas last year. Needless to say same story.funny thing is that I just asked her today for some reason if she ever got her money back from her cc company. what a bunch of ***holes.

[reeferRob]

Below is the cut and paste from another forum about my one and ONLY experience with aquacon:

WORD IS: Aquatic connection SUCKS!! 1st the fruitcake that assures me yesterday they would ship out at 9pm that night, then I call this am to confirm shipment before I take off from work. I send 2 emails to them requesting a tracking number, no answer, I wait til like 4pm and I call for a tracking number and get told they'd email it right out. NOTHING! I call fedex, they can see several shipments to my address but nothing as recent as yesterday. I try and call them back and get an answering machine that says to try back in a few minutes. I keep trying until the answering machine quits answering. Now there's no way to take off work tomorrow so I guess I'll come home to a box of dead fish! NEVER AGAIN AQUATIC CONNECTION!

1 week later

well guess what, The completely incompetent and ignorant people shipped my fish to me a week late even after numerous messages left to CANCEL the order when it didn't ship last week. Got home from work today and a note was on the door from fedex, I called fedex and they had the driver meet me in cove. Aquacon never even notified me they were shipping them, and since I cancelled a week ago I never dreamed they would show up today. Well the 2 Idols are alive, 1 is real healthy looking and the other is extremely stressed and may not make it. The twin spot was deader than dead upon arrival, and the goby package that Rich wanted wasn't even shipped. GAWD them people are STUPID!!!! I was originally told that once they shipped I would recieve email and phone notification, GOT niether!!


Rob

I did put in a dispute for the charge, and told my bank that since I did recieve 1 live Idol, I would pay for the 1 fish pus shipping, just cuz I felt like it was the right thing to do, although I wish I would have disputed the entire amount now!

[jpond83]

i would be mad

[prof]

I am not defending the company so please don't take this any other way.

I have some really cool red and green zoos (under 20K and actinic) that turn orangeish brown under 10K lights. You might want to try them under different lighting. It won't make up for the bait and switch but they might look cooler in a different tank.

This is why the good web vendors explain exactly what kind of lighting the livestock is grown and photographed under.

[SoLiD]

That was under XM 15K lighting with PC Actinics. Believe me, it made very little difference. I actually already had a 2 Polyp Frag of PPE's to compare them to so I knew immediately that they were FAKE. The true colors are brown and yellow. So in any lighting I put them in won't matter much; simply because you can't polish a turd!