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04-28-2004, 06:23 PM

Well, we recieved an amazing response to Bob Sloan and did a fir amount of research on him. He has ripped off many people in both the reptiles and taxidermy. Here are a few links pretaining to him (sorry webslave, too many for screen shots).

http://www.taxidermy.net/forums/Bird...03B1B195C.html

http://www.taxidermy.net/forums/Indu...03EA420D1.html

http://www.taxidermy.net/forums/Indu...03B5AF053.html

There are many more, but you get the picture. We were interested in buying a pair of Patternless atrox that he claimed he had, but despite several months of e-mails and calls, no photos. We believe that he was trying to:

1.) Try to rip us off somehow.

2.) Check our facility out and steal our collection.

3.) He just could not help himself, and lies just keep pouring out of his mouth.

In his e-mails (sorry, I do not still have them) and conversations on the phone he has claimed to have the following:

Patternless atrox
Leusistic atrox
Albino atrox
Melanistic atrox
Piebald atrox
Patternless Albino atrox
Albino Gila Monster
Fea Viper
Leusistic Mexican Milksnake
and the list goes on and on!!!

Now either he has the most impressive (and unknown) collection known to man, or..........he thinks I'm an idiot to believe him. Now, we gave him the chance to sell us a pair of Patternless atrox for $5,000 for the pair, but he never sent pics and we were not going to let him just walk into our facility, let alone waste anymore time on him unless we knew he had the snakes in his hands. Despite months of beating around the bush on his part, no pics. Then, today I get this e-mail from him:

"Keith

Just a heads up..........I sold all six patternless - 4.2 and the fems
were bred to a guy in Europe. That export permit finally paid off. I got
$1,000 each ! I also have 17 newly collected this year and my original
12. All of my females are bred and the 10 wild caught are also probably
bred since they do so right out of the den !!! I look to have between
100-250 babies this year. Look for them on kingsnake.com in the fall for
$50 each ! Happy breeding AS**HOLE !"

He lies, is a known theif, and will rip you off in a heart beat. If I understand correctly he is either moving out of the state, or to Del Rio, so watch out. His your collections from him and please do not send any cash to him!!!! I wish I would have saved the past e-mails from him, but they were not worth my time and effort any longer.

04-28-2004, 06:23 PM	#8
Keith Northrop	Well, we recieved an amazing response to Bob Sloan and did a fir amount of research on him. He has ripped off many people in both the reptiles and taxidermy. Here are a few links pretaining to him (sorry webslave, too many for screen shots). http://www.taxidermy.net/forums/Bird...03B1B195C.html http://www.taxidermy.net/forums/Indu...03EA420D1.html http://www.taxidermy.net/forums/Indu...03B5AF053.html There are many more, but you get the picture. We were interested in buying a pair of Patternless atrox that he claimed he had, but despite several months of e-mails and calls, no photos. We believe that he was trying to: 1.) Try to rip us off somehow. 2.) Check our facility out and steal our collection. 3.) He just could not help himself, and lies just keep pouring out of his mouth. In his e-mails (sorry, I do not still have them) and conversations on the phone he has claimed to have the following: Patternless atrox Leusistic atrox Albino atrox Melanistic atrox Piebald atrox Patternless Albino atrox Albino Gila Monster Fea Viper Leusistic Mexican Milksnake and the list goes on and on!!! Now either he has the most impressive (and unknown) collection known to man, or..........he thinks I'm an idiot to believe him. Now, we gave him the chance to sell us a pair of Patternless atrox for $5,000 for the pair, but he never sent pics and we were not going to let him just walk into our facility, let alone waste anymore time on him unless we knew he had the snakes in his hands. Despite months of beating around the bush on his part, no pics. Then, today I get this e-mail from him: "Keith Just a heads up..........I sold all six patternless - 4.2 and the fems were bred to a guy in Europe. That export permit finally paid off. I got $1,000 each ! I also have 17 newly collected this year and my original 12. All of my females are bred and the 10 wild caught are also probably bred since they do so right out of the den !!! I look to have between 100-250 babies this year. Look for them on kingsnake.com in the fall for $50 each ! Happy breeding AS**HOLE !" He lies, is a known theif, and will rip you off in a heart beat. If I understand correctly he is either moving out of the state, or to Del Rio, so watch out. His your collections from him and please do not send any cash to him!!!! I wish I would have saved the past e-mails from him, but they were not worth my time and effort any longer.