Well I hate to do this~ because it’s embarrassing to admit how I helped him rip me off~ but others should be aware of him in case he gets better at his thieving and actually rips off someone who doesn’t see it coming.
Back on 10/14/08 I sent 7 Ball Pythons to Rick Harrelson. He SEEMED like a nice guy and promised me a pied from his 09 breeding season but I didn’t believe he would actually do that~ I figured he was new and didn’t realize just how much work it was to get a pied from your hets and once he figured that out he wouldn’t want to follow through on that deal. He insisted he would but I just asked that he pay shipping for the Ball Pythons and IF he proved out the failed ghost project that he send me one of the ghost babies. I really did think he was just a nice guy new at this and I thought I was being nice helping him out. Unfortunately I may have just given him snakes to rip others off with.
Shipping was cheap because he is not very far from me~ according to Mapquest only about 4 hours (Maybe I should show up on his doorstep Christmas Morning with the police to repossess my snakes? LOL!) ~ so I only asked him for the $35 shipping. He promised he would send me a check on 10/14/08 and THAT I actually believed. I figured if he was scamming me he would at least send the shipping so it was that much longer before I KNEW I’d been scammed and trashed his name.
Well~ No check for the shipping showed up~ So I emailed and asked him for it on 11/1/08. He emailed back that he would get it out that week and that he had surgery…….can’t you even come up with an original excuse? Oh well~ I knew for sure then but I didn’t want to admit on the BOI that I had helped him rip me off so I emailed him again on 11/17/08 asking for the shipping. He wrote back saying if I could still take Mastercard he would pay me. I was never able to take Mastercard…..so I wrote him back and told him I could not and it would have to be a check or paypal.
Haven’t heard back from him. So~ I hate to admit it but I helped this Jerk rip me off and you should be aware of him~
So the Search Engines can find this Bad Guy thread easier if he tries using a different name:
Rick Harrelson
201 Cabriolet Trail
McDonough, Georgia, 30253
770-843-1046
rickharrelson@yahoo.com
His name comes through on the Yahoo emails as Rick Harrel
He’s got my snakes so he may try selling them or breeding them and selling the babies~ I’m not really mad so much as disappointed in myself for believing him. I hope his name, address and phone number being listed for the world to see as BAD GUY was worth the $35 shipping.
Photo IDs of the snakes he has~
If he tries selling you these as anything but a FAILED ghost project don’t fall for it…..