Happy Birthday BOI!!
 

October 1 is the official birthday of the Board of Inquiry, as close as I can guestimate it. So today the BOI is three years old.

Why does it seem M-U-C-H older than that?? :smash:

Re: Happy Birthday BOI!!
 

One answer to that

MANY MORE GREY HAIRS:D

congratulations are in order and all should thank you for the service

congrats webslave.....
 

you have the tenacity of a pit bull.....i'm only a lurker and it seems like it's been much longer than 3 years!!! can't imagine how you feel or do it for that matter. rich, are you doing the irba show in valley forge, pa. in mid november? if so, i'll bring you a case of sunkist orange. lol! still have no idea how you keep so many balls in the air at once!! congratulations!

WOW how awesome. Keep up the good work. This site is great . I come here daily. I have not seen my name yet.... I do not know if that is a good thing or a bad thing..Anyway Thank you for all the great information. I am sure this site has saved a lot of people a lot of time, heartbreak and money. HAPPY BIRTHDAY BOI and MANY MORE TO COME

Congradts!!!
 

Rich,

Congratulations!! It seems like it has been alot longer than 3 years for me as well. I guess this is just our old memory failing on us again. hmmm who was I writing this to again? haha

thanks
 

i admit i was off to a bad start when i first came here but im learning allot here through the boi.
Not just by the bad guy posts which help me to develop my own policy and terms for my sales but the good guy posts too. They have not only helped me find good breeders but helped me with reguards to proper packing and shipping.
I certainly have a list of sellers now that I wouldnt give the time of day let alone a quarter to make their phone call to their lawyer ;)

Happy Birthday BOI!!
 

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and Thanks!

That picture is forever going to be scarred into my mind...... cute!


HAPPY BIRTHDAY :D

Happy Birthday BOI!

Nothing worth having is easy to attain. That statement has never been more true than it is in reference to the BOI.

Congratulations on a job well done to Webslave, Ritchie, Ken, and all the members that have contributed their time, resources, and wisdom.

Jackie and Tom,

That pic is just to cute....... Happy Birthday Again BOI

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BOI!!!

Wow, it is really hard to believe that it has only been three years. I started posting here under one of the older versions (not certain if it was the original one or not) sometime during the early summer of 2001, but it seems like it has much, MUCH longer than that. It has been informative, interesting, and irreplaceable from the very beginning.

Thanks, Rich!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BOI!!!!!!!!!!
Heres to all the great people on this site, and to Rich.:beer:

Re: Happy Birthday BOI!!
 

Congratulations... definately seems like it has been more than three years...

:beer: cheers to you!

Boi
 

Thanks Rich,
Boi is probably the most valuable tool in the reptile industry. Thanks for all your hard work.:)

Happy Birthday
 

Happy Birthday BOI and thanks Rich for all you doneand keep up the work.

It would have been nice to have a heads up on this. I could have sent my annual donation in and got two for one. Any way Rich, I was thinking about early Jan 04 to send the donation. Keep webslaving!

Happy birthday
 

Thanks Mr. Z for a darn good site. I've learned a lot about the herp world - both good and bad, and it has shaped the way I try to do business with people.

You've done well. Thank you.

Thanks everyone. We did have a real rocky road through one stretch, but that is all behind us now and all we can do is grow and try to make our world a better place.

I would have thought trying to make a worthwhile beneficial website would have been a no brainer, and be pretty much univerally supported. After all, I am really taking the heat from the flak that originates on the BOI, which takes it off of other webmasters. But after getting banned from one webmaster's site and then boycotted by another because of it, heck, what do I know? Both are pretty comical efforts to put the brakes on what they see happening here. In the former instance, all it did was to spur me on to even greater efforts to make this site work.

So much for that.......

Thanks for being a part of this. YOU are the ones that made this site. I just gave you the tools.

Rich Z.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BOI
 

It seems like a lot longer than three years. I guess that's what happens when we come here almost every day. I thought it was a great site in 2001 Rich but you consistently make it better.
THANKS RICH:) Rob

A Toast to the Board of Inquiry.

Before it was here, none were imune
To the foibles and scams of those who would view
To take all our money and our reptiles too.

Then along came the webslave who had had enough.
He creadted a place to share knowledge and stuff
And he never backed down when the going got tough.

Through law suits and threats, this board did persist.
Through fighting, fake morphs, and deals to resist.
To educate customers so scammers can't subsist.

To The Webslave I say, This is only the begining!
We'll keep the site going as you were intending,
And the world will be better, for time never-ending!

Happy Birthday BOI!
From Your Sick Uncle Morti and all your friends at Redtailboa.net

Happy Bithday BOI!

Just think of all the people that this board have saved from being scammed or duped in the last 3 years. This board proves that the good guys do come out on top. No pun intended.