If Chris Applegate from Ohio contacts you and promises to buy animals from you, do NOT hold them for him unless you receive a deposit or some sort of compensation. Also, if you buy animals from him, treat them for mites! (A friend of mine purchased a snake from him at the last KY show and I recently had to help her treat it for mites...its the only snake she had, so theres no doubt they came from him).
Chris was supposed to buy over $500 worth of tarantulas from me at a recent reptile show in Kentucky. We had been in communication via e-mail about the spiders and Chris promised to buy them from me if I held onto them for him (he had purchased animals from me in the past, and held up his end of the deal, so I figured he would honor his word again), he would pick them up at the next local show he would attend.
Well, as the show's date neared, I tried to get into contact w/Chris to no avail....a couple days before the show, Chris sends me an e-mail stating that he is having legal troubles (due to another botched deal with a KY show vendor where Chris jerked them around for more than 1k in goods and animals) and he would "try" to make it to the show to pick up the animals he agreed to purchase from me several weeks back.
The date of the show comes and goes, and I hear no more from Chris. He never purchased the animals he said he would and I was stuck with a large amount of livestock that was taken off the market under the assumption he was going to buy them from me.....now, nobody forced me to hold the animals for him, I know.....but is there no honor in today's society? Is it too much to ask for people to hold up their end of an agreed upon deal? I don't think so.
Heres a couple e-mails proving that Chris agreed to buy the spiders from me....(Chris' words are in bold to make it easier to read, I hope)
From:"Chris Applegate" <applegate@go-concepts.com>Add sender to Contacts
To:
dbeard84@yahoo.com
I can shoot you some money next week so you know I won't back out! lol
----- Original Message ----- From: "David Beard" <dbeard84@yahoo.com>
To: "Chris Applegate" <applegate@go-concepts.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 10:35 PM
Subject: Re: Re:
>
> Its no big deal man...you can just shoot me a part of the money (whatever works for you) if you want, or you can just get them in full at the show. Doesn't matter to me.
>
What about the P. pederseni. Those aren't on there are they?
Would it be a problem to send you cash next week? I am really strapped and
don't get paid for a week. I can send you some money to hold until next
week.. Let me know if that is a problem..
Chris
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Beard" <dbeard84@yahoo.com>
To: "Chris Applegate" <applegate@go-concepts.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 9:13 PM
Subject: Re: Re:
> The T. gigas and Chevron are both new world arboreals...easy to keep, but
> very fast. They're pretty impressive as adults.
>
> The total for everything would be $550, so how does $400 sound?
>
> --- On Tue, 3/3/09, Chris Applegate <applegate@go-concepts.com> wrote:
>
>> From: Chris Applegate <applegate@go-concepts.com>
>> Subject: Re: Re:
>> To:
dbeard84@yahoo.com
>> Date: Tuesday, March 3, 2009, 8:56 PM
>>
Can you tell me about these though?
>> -2"+ Tapinauchenius gigas (Orange Tree Spider)-$40
>> -2"+ Psalmopeous cambridgei (Trinidad Chevron)-$35
>>
>>
>> Here is a list that I will take..
>> -4" Brachypelma vagans (Mexican Red Rump)-$50
>> -4" female Ceratogyrus marshalli (Horned Baboon)-$60
>> -4" female Chilobrachys huahini (Huahini Bird
>> Spider)-$45
>> -4" female Pterinochilus murinus (Starburst
>> Baboon)-$30
>> -2" female Cyclosternum fasciatum (Tiger Rump)-$40
>> -3" Nhandu colloratovillosus (Brazilian Banded)-$30
>> -2"+ Tapinauchenius gigas (Orange Tree Spider)-$40
>> -2"+ Psalmopeous cambridgei (Trinidad Chevron)-$35
>> -2" Citharischius crawshayi (King Baboon)-$45
>> -Six 1.25"-1.5" Poecilotheria regalis (Indian
>> Ornamental)-$25 each
>> -Five 0.75" Pterinochilus murinus (Starburst
>> Baboons)-$5 each
>>