Action Service

very bizarre business practice
refused to meet, refused cash (he didn’t want to get mugged, i live in pac heights) WANTED pay pal money NOW!
strange…glad i found someone else

I work for a law firm that has used John’s services for the past two years, and found him to be professional and most importantly, very prompt. He managed to effect personal service on a very wary defendant that we fully expected to attempt to dodge service at all costs. John had him served within 24 hours of receiving our request. I would definitely recommend his services!

RUN AWAY! DO NOT USE THIS GUY FOR ANYTHING! Everything you’re reading in these Unilocal reviews has been exactly my experience with John Snavely. I foolishly hired him to serve time-​sensitive court papers by no later than 8pm on December 9, 2014 and he never even made a single attempt. I believe that he provided me with a fake license number as well (although I can’t prove it because he didn’t provide me with the name of the licensing agency, just a license number). When I politely let him know that his services were not going to be needed because after looking at his Unilocal reviews and having experienced being jerked around for a day by him, I no longer trusted that I made the right choice in process servers.
What has followed has been a series (no fewer than 5 just this morning — I stopped responding to him, but his nasty emails just kept coming) of increasingly abusive, harassing emails from him. His demeanor prior to getting my money was completely different. He stopped behaving with any semblance of professionalism and became rude and dismissive after he had my money. He claimed that he would serve the court papers before 8pm yesterday and I spoke to him at 4:30pm to confirm that he would be fulfilling that obligation under our agreement. He assured me that he would, but he didn’t even attempt to serve the papers. When I spoke with him on the phone, he kept pretending to have dropped his phone, making any meaningful discussion very difficult.
I believe he uses PayPal specifically because they don’t offer buyer protection on services and he’s gotten away with ripping other people off that way previously. The REPUTABLE process server that I had to subsequently hire happened to be familiar with John Snavely and his long history of troubling business practices. I was warned to be careful because he is a vexatious litigant who will file lawsuits against anyone for any reason. I don’t know that to be true, but given my horrific experience with this clown, I totally believe it.
What a rude, dishonest, abusive sorry excuse for a businessperson.

John did quite a bit of work for me years ago, then just disappeared after I paid him $ 55 once. I called for 3 months and never got a response. Now a few years later I had some work so I notice he’s got all these bad reviews on Unilocal.So I called to see if we would make good on the money he stole from me. At first, he said he didn’t remember me. Then he did. He claimed I was making it up and started to go into a rant about how smart he is… so I hung up.
I don’t normally write reviews… but this guy should not be allowed to work in this business. Someone should serve him.

I would give negative stars if allowed.
This is the most unprofessional, rude, condescending person I have ever worked with. Did not communicate well, threatened me, harassed me and did not complete any service. He gave unsolicited legal advice and then failed to inform of critical paperwork that needed to be filed in order to complete service.
Do not use this person. He is abusive.

John was quick and conscientious. He was able to serve a very difficult to reach person. I would highly recommend Action Serve services.

Rude, condescending, difficult, and incompetent.
Mr. Snavely said he tried ten times to serve papers over the course of three weeks, and failed. (The next process server succeeded in less than a week.)
After failing to serve, he made it extremely difficult to get a written statement of his attempt (common follow-​up). Over the next two weeks, his story changed, he broke his promises, he insulted me, and he lectured me (I’ll take my legal advice from lawyers, thank you).
Beware.