Chris,
Have you been able to get a hold of Mike yet? Clyde McPherson and I have been trying to reach him via email, phone, and through his father with no luck at all. All we know about Mike is that he is back in school. The number I have for Mike is 401-523-2736 which is a RI number.
I've been trying to get a hold of Mike for the past few weeks about a deal he’s never completed. About 3 months ago I purchased what was supposed to be an adult female pastel poss het snow. Well she turned out to be a he. So I gave Mike 30 days to find something I would be interested in to trade or give me my money back.
Mike calls me up about 4 weeks ago saying he has an adult stripe line albino male for sale. I agreed to pay him the difference between the pastel and the albino and sent him the money right away. What Mike failed to tell me was that he did not have the albino in hand. He was in fact trying to complete another deal with Clyde McPherson to get that albino.
Clyde told me Mike was supposed to send him various ball pythons including a female pastel for the albino. Well it turned out Mike sent him a pretty normal female trying to pass it as a pastel. (Mike had tried to sell me this wc possible pastel earlier but I declined.) So now Mike owed Clyde either a pastel female or some money.
So after I sent Mike the money Mike turns around and sends Clyde most of it and now still owes Clyde $200 dollars. After I confronted Mike about this over the phone he finally confessed that Clyde still had the boa and that he would settle up with Clyde so that Clyde can send the boa directly to me.
About 2 weeks went by and no money was ever sent to Clyde. Clyde and I have tried repeatedly to call, page, email, etc to try to reach him. Clyde finally spoke to Mike father and Mike’s dad told him that he would talk to Mike and make him pay Clyde. Still nothing happened.
Another interesting thing we found out was the relationship between Mike Williams and Dana Shields. I questioned Mike earlier about how Mike was related to Dana Shields, who I had to send money to twice because Mike's paypal account was not working. Mike told me three different things. Once he told me that Dana was a customer of his and then that Dana was a partner and then that Dana was his girlfriend, which he later denied ever saying.
I remembered speaking to someone who identified himself as being Dana Shields months ago about a DH snow he had. I even inquired about Dana on the BOI and Mike replied backing saying he was a good customer of his.
http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/foru...t=dana+shields
Well Clyde finds out from Mike’s dad that Dana Shields was actually Mike’s girlfriend. I guess someone forgot he had a girl.
Lucky for me Clyde was kind enough to send me the albino anyway even though he is now out of $200 dollars. My experience with Mike is that he is dishonest and is trying to sell animals he doesn’t even have yet. I believe in giving people second chances but this was his second chance and he blew it.
If Clyde had not sent me the albino I would have had to pay Mike a nice visit. I hope Mike does good and pay Chris and Clyde back but I would definitely be cautious before dealing with this guy.