Ah, just for fun, I'll participate in this discussion. Remember also, that I encouraged you to join this forum on May 10th, via email. Welcome, William, by the way!
Yes, it seems I did neglect to put in a darkling beetle for you. That was a mistake. You did, I believe, receive a container that was marked "darkling beetle", but it had a free roach that I'd pulled for you earlier, instead.
Let's back up a bit.
You posted your feedback on June 1st. In the 21 days preceding your post, I sent you exactly 20 emails (you sent me many more but I consolidate when possible), answering your questions and entertaining your "special order" requests that changed, rather frustratingly I might add, from day to day. In the end, you purchased two roaches. Thank you again for the business!
I sent you the G. oblongonota and the red head O. deusta, per your order. I don't usually sell singles of G. oblongonota but entertained your request to do so. When I realized that I did not have a large nymph to sell you at the discounted rate, I wrote back and offered the medium nymph and a free question mark roach. You accepted.
When I shipped, I also included a second O. deusta, but may or may not have labeled that there was a second one (I often label it as 1+1 to indicate an extra, but not always). I'm not sure how you could have missed the second roach in the deusta cup since the cup is only about 2 inches across. That, sir, was a freebie. It was kind of you to mention via email that you scoured your trash looking for it, though that was maybe a day or two later and after you wrote and told me that your O. deusta had died (not DOA, but afterwards).
Several days after you placed the order, but before I shipped, you asked about darkling beetles. Out of kindness, and because I assume you are a kid, I offered to include one for free. You happily accepted. Yes, folks, that's right...he's complaining about a free beetle. I think what happened here is that I had labeled a container with yet another freebie that I'd already pulled for him (E. capucina that I had also pulled for him, because it is my favorite species) as a darkling, meaning to trade it out before I actually shipped a few days later. I later forgot that I'd not switched the contents...I believe.
So, I'm not entirely sure what I actually shipped to you at this point. I know that your order was for one G. oblongonota and one O. deusta. You got both of those, plus a free question mark, a free red hed roach and possibly a free E. capucina as well, instead of the darkling.
Regardless, I would hope that you would be a little bit more forgiving to the next dealer that answers 20 emails so kindly and more than doubles your already "special request" order with freebies.
Welcome to the forum...and reality!
(This constitutes my one reply to your one reply, per Orin's new rules!)
No hard feelings, but there will be no replacements for your dead freebie, the roach you threw in the trash or the free beetle that was actually a roach. You still came out well ahead since you ordered 2, received 5 (but only noticed 4).