Petr Jakubek

Yes, I had just shipped 30 packages, all Ebay and off Ebay sales, will see how these go whether there will be reason for posting another thread by someone. Now preparing to ship another 17 packages to my valued customers. These people will not place any threads on insectnet forum. 

Again in November, I will send you all invitations to my Ebay auctions, you can buy with confidence. I ship from Poland, their postal services proved to be reliable. Later will ship again from Canada, where I reside, and where my company dedicated to teh study and sales of insects was founded in 2000. I am not a ghost so you can not just start to call me bad names without a reason. If you have something to say, let us first have your name, and than you can bring up any issues you have. If you never bought from me before, just stay shut and don't tell people not to buy from me. When you do, people shall just ignore you.


You will receive quality study material, all accompanied with precise accurately recorded collection data. 

All specimens, which were not collected by myself are of a known provenance, I knew many and the best and recognized antomologists of the period. I do not deal withscammers not will ever do. I began putting collection of insects since I was 13, but had been fascinated with insects since little baby.

With my colleague, we described in 2020, 6 new ssp. of Colias nastes from W Canada. Now waiting for the manusript to be accepted for publishing. 

Apart from selling my excess of specimens I own, I continue to study and better understand systematics and taxonomy of W Canada's butterflies. I suspect that soon I will be able to describe few new taxa. Genitalia and DNA samples were already partially prepared to support my observations. 

I've been to places in Canada that very few had been to, and since I began to study Canadian leps in 1999, I had now gone through the processes to better understand what I might had discovered. Results will be published sooner or later, as each taxon take stime to process. I wish to thank my colleagues for preparing the genitalia drawings and the DNA sequences for our current and future manuscripts.

You will soon be informed of any developments in this regard.

Best wishes, bid and buy from me at Ebay.com, you are also welcome to buy privately.
Note, all my sales are taxed in Canada. If you need a proper signed invoice, you are welcome to request that to come along with your next order. 

InsectNet has been created in 1999. Look at the InsectNet Trading Report, you won't find a topic against a serious seller.
On the contrary, you will find several members explaining that they are very happy about some of them.

This said, I personally don't think you are a crook as you have 97% positive feedback on eBay.

But as you asked about professionalism, my few advices : make it what you want.
- if your ebay shop says you ship from the US and some parcels are sent from Canada or Mexico, it can be a huge issue for US collectors (especially with Mexican leps). I am sure you know the US legislation. You should clarify this to avoid any issues, questions and so on.
- ignoring the largest insect forums for years for an insect sellers does not seem very smart to me
- joining this forum to try and resolve some customer issue is a very good idea. But writing 20 posts to explain to each deceived customers that it is not your fault and that some of them are crazy is not the best way to improve your image.

So instead of becoming aggressive towards your deceived customers and InsectNet, you should better try to understand what you should improve in your business procedures.

Bob, you are at insectnet forum, remember? You and I must be explicit as to the content of our messages, as some people believe, that you purchased isects from me by accident = by mistake = you might be regreting this.

By telling each of the valued reader the exact meaning, might help significantly.

If wollastoni reads my comments, he will realize, that I did not steal anything from timchenko from Russia nor from williams from New Zealand and that they should ask themselves, whether the posts they placed, are objective and worth stirring the emotions of various readers, including mine.

As you see, I am being quite well known in the World, just look at the number of views these threads were noticed by, and williams and timchenko just say, how terrible their experience was, but they both know, they got what they ordered. williams got photos of the female both sides, and the tail was not just repaired, it was the very same female's tail which was reinforced with tiny bit of glue, as it was bent and if not done so, this would certainly fall off during the transport. Beautiful female! I am not fool and he knew what he is buying, yet he says, that he purchased insects until he got stung by me - this is lie, he bought just one insect from me. The question is, what he meant by saying that he purchased several insects building trust and than he was stung by a little bee. I was not deceiving him in any way nor planned on making him unhappy for the rest of his life.

timchenko on the other hand, and it must be said, is a mamipulative character. He knew I apologized for not sending him one of hthe few specimens he purchased, the Oeneis macounii male in A- condition, I explained the reason - till today I don't know where is the male he won on Ebay, it must had been sent to other customer who got it for free as I might had just made one mistake and I probably just placed this male into a box destined to other person. I told timchenko what happened and I offered him either upgrade worth 7$ as I did not have nor have another A-male of the same species, or I offered him 10$ refund or 10$ discount on shipping on next parcel. He did not want upgrade, he did not want refund, he got 10$ discount on his next purchase's shipping.

I was fairly professional, I did not deceive him in any way, however he lets the entire World know, that he was terribly treated.

Regarding the legal USFWS regulations as we seem to be understanding them... it's not something we shall be afraid of, but something, we as a community, shall fight against. Governments across the Globe destroy OUR nature, nature that is equally OURs as theirs, who gives them the right to destroy our nature and at the same time pretend that they care for it? Collectors or nature lovers, us, you or I, are not responsible for any irreversable damages caused to the natural environment and it's content - all life forms. But its again those governments, who impose those irrational laws into effect and we just are doing nothing about it. The chemicals used in agriculture, overexploitation, unreasonable mining, waste of natural resources, destruction of meadows, forests, global industrialization, pollution of the seas/rivers/air and the soil, altering the climate, everything is destroyed by many industries, but not by butterfly collectors/entomologists. We need to fight against the laws forbidding us to trade with insects which were legally obtained. The most important law of a man kind is not to obey bad/irrational laws.

Amateur entomology as we know it in its current and past forms, may not survive the next decade.

USA is considered to be one of the greatest polluters of the World. USFWS will impose fines, if we try to supply an entomologist with a dead deceased insect, which was with care conserved for the purpose of a scientific study or enjoyment. This is wrong. We shall be discussing these things and trying to find a way how to address changes in this matter. That is by far more relevant topic than to argue in the forum, if williams or timchenko, both of which got exactly what they paid for, were or weren't terribly treated.

Petr, if I were you, I would have said :
"Hello all, I see a lot of bad comments here. Please look at my eBay reviews and you will see that I am a honest supplier. I may have made some mistakes though (everyone does), so I ask all deceived members to send me an email at xxx@xxx and I am sure I will find a solution to make them happy".

Instead of this, you are very aggressive towards deceived customers, one happy customer and one InsectNet moderator : I am afraid you've worsen your image instead of improving it.

I don't think, I hope so, that I've made my position worse than it is. My clients will continue buying from me and I am always inviting new clients to join the group of satisfied collectors. However, I do not want to sell to crooks, who are never to be happy no matter what you do, and they are out there.

I again call to everyobody to fight together not against each other but against bad laws, against the criminalization of entomology Worldwide. We are not criminals. There are many of us, including myself, who do not collect endangered species, protected species. There are people including myself, who have inherited important insect collections of a very old provenance. But these insects, many of them now protected, can not be sold or even given as a gift, unless a government officer being paid by us, allows you to do so.

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Back to my other concern, williams from New Zealand, purchased just one butterfly from me back in 2011, it was a beautiful large female of Papilio multicaudatus, yet, after 9 years, he is so frustrated with this deal, that each time now and in the past, he will bring up his mistake, because he bought the female, he received the very female he bought based on photos he received prior to sealing the deal.

I will not apologize indefinitively to williams from NZ for providing fantastic female with ONLY reinforced right hindwings tail. williams bought from me because he was recommended to him by his mutual friend Laurie Wills, from New Zealand. I carried losses because of the way williams acts, as Laurie, despite making numerous purchases from me, stopped buying from me after williams got his female with the reinforced tail. This Papilio multicaudatus was collected in the wild, it was a large beautiful female, a rarity in sense of such a large specimen did not suffer any damages while being netted, except for having its one tail, bent but not missing. 

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There are already such threads, including discussions last week alone. No serious environmentalist disagrees with the irony of focus on permits while rain forests are being destroyed. Anyone can Search the Forums to find this information.


That said, a specimen sold as a product is incomplete without correct data and any required permits.

I do find this whole thing entertaining, in a way.



ETA: changed grammar to be more clear concerning audience.