Inquiry On Terry Lilley Of Centralcoast

im looking to buy some blue tailed monitors,black tree monitors,red phase sand monitors and maybe some water monitors from terry lilley of central coast reptiles. if you have any feedback of them please let me know.thanks

Originally posted by burmsrus
im looking to buy some blue tailed monitors,black tree monitors,red phase sand monitors and maybe some water monitors from terry lilley of central coast reptiles. if you have any feedback of them please let me know.thanks

Your looking to do what???!!!

I would search the BOI for his name. Also, it wouldnt hurt to call the Better Business Bureau and ask them.

If you had utilized the search feature as required by the rules of this site you would found plenty of previous threads on him and his business practices. Below are just a few.

http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/foru...t=terry+lilley

http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/foru...t=terry+lilley

http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/foru...t=terry+lilley

funny i have purchased a pair of dwarf retics that were exactly as stated and were in very good shape and excellent packaging. i have no problem buying from terry again. i am surprised at the neg threads IMO
charlie

The guy has had less than a golden reputation since the day I first ran into him at a herp meeting over 20 years ago. Always been very questionable where acquires some of his animals as his CITES permits seem to be called into question frequently as to their authenticity as well as the animals on the permit matching the animals for sale.

It appears to continue to this day.

I would stay far away or at least do A LOT of homework before sending him any money.

TC

I have met dozens of people that Terry has done a number on. There are a couple people that I mentioned in other threads that he has owed animals to that were paid for, for years now that he was happy to sell but not to ship. He sells other people's goods using other people's pictures and then keeps the money.

For those who remember the previous threads on terry, he was selling his business. I guess the prospective buyer must have waken up and figured out how bad a name it would be to have.

i bought 3 snakes from him that where supposed to be about 950 grams and when they arrived they where not as big as they were supposed to be the biggest being 850 grams. i wasnt happy and he sent someone my way who wanted the snakes i wasnt happy with and i got my money back and kept one of the snakes i liked. i would buy from him again. just make sure you get pics of the snakes getting weighed and you shouldnt have a problem with him. he was very nice.

Hes an idiot. Enough said.

a few years back i did a trade with him, all my animals were personal pets, and I wanted to trade a few animals for a green tree python. Well it got here, and it was about the size of a 6-8 month gtp, and it was already green! It didnt eat for several months, i had to assist feed it. Now its back to health and eating finally, but someone shouldnt have to go through that, especially when all the animals I sent to him were in top knotch quality! It was also from some really supposed high yellow animals, and it doesnt have any high yellow, ohh well, i wonder if those pics he showed me were even his animals. Does anyone have a gtp that they got from him? Hows it doing?


Thanks
Tim Coplan

thanks for the info everyone.i think ill give my business to the guys at goldenserpent.