Bad Guy Wendy Childs, Reptile Addictions

[ReptileAddictions]

Ok, I read them anyways, and OF COURSE Dennis the EX is on here promoting the store HE WORKS FOR. Puke........

We sell normal BPs at 5 feeds for $30, they hit 10 feeds they are $40. At times I have charged $10 more for a female.

Last weekend they were all $20, maybe it was a normal she was looking for. We sold out in 2 days.

My store is above and beyond clean. The habitats are beautiful. People complain because they cant find the animal in its habitat. They are very close replications of their native environments- even prettier!

EVERYONE is feed, watered, and cleaned DAILY. Their are ID tags that have a picture that tell people scientific name, common name, native origin, adult size, lifespan, diet, type of habitat, ect. The animal is for sale solo, or the habitat is for sale with it. NO cage has more than 2 animals in it. 90% only have one.

Anyone is welcome to view all the youtube videos. It is unlike any "store" I have ever been to, and I have traveled the country.

 

[shelliebear]

That makes a lot of sense Wendy. I didn't know you had so many people in there. Rasmussen Reptiles just opened in the mall, and I hate how people go in there and look at the snakes as if it is a freak show. 6 year old kids' parents saying, "Eww, look at that snake!" It makes me sad. They don't understand.
"Crummy selection"...yes, you have a beautiful one, not crummy. I take that back. I suppose I haven't been there enough (as I don't treat it like a zoo! ) to see what your selection was like at other times of the year. Plus, I guess I'm on a much lower budget than some--I can't afford much more than $40 for a new ball python, which is why I was looking at hatchlings, which I have now found out you sold out of very quickly.
Sorry for judging. I love your store. I now understand what the fee is for. Thanks for not letting it become a zoo. >.<

 

[shelliebear]

Actually I am surprised that this thread is allowed to remain in the BOI and not transferred to the General Business Forum. She can do what she wants with her store IMO. If someone doesn't want to pay $5 to enter her store than they just don't enter. They don't purchase from her and they move on. Why is this here?

'Cause I'm an idiot and posted it in the wrong forum.

 

[The BoidSmith]

Sorry for judging. I love your store. I now understand what the fee is for. Thanks for not letting it become a zoo. >.<

Thank you Rachelle

 

[spyder79]

Ok, I read them anyways, and OF COURSE Dennis the EX is on here promoting the store HE WORKS FOR. Puke........

We sell normal BPs at 5 feeds for $30, they hit 10 feeds they are $40. At times I have charged $10 more for a female.

Last weekend they were all $20, maybe it was a normal she was looking for. We sold out in 2 days.

My store is above and beyond clean. The habitats are beautiful. People complain because they cant find the animal in its habitat. They are very close replications of their native environments- even prettier!

EVERYONE is feed, watered, and cleaned DAILY. Their are ID tags that have a picture that tell people scientific name, common name, native origin, adult size, lifespan, diet, type of habitat, ect. The animal is for sale solo, or the habitat is for sale with it. NO cage has more than 2 animals in it. 90% only have one.

Anyone is welcome to view all the youtube videos. It is unlike any "store" I have ever been to, and I have traveled the country.

So you are turning your reptile pet store into a Serpentarium/Reptarium? So i take it you changed your mind about getting out of reptiles.

 

[Iraqvet]

So you are turning your reptile pet store into a Serpentarium/Reptarium? So i take it you changed your mind about getting out of reptiles.

She must have changed her mind about selling the business...It still sounds to me like she just has a nice store and not a zoo type place and is trying to use some reasoning for the $5 entry fee...I seen the pics in her add with it up for sale..Yes its nice,but its no zoo and deffinetly nothing I would pay $5 to see..

 

[JHB1982]

Rachelle if you are looking for a normal female why don't you just buy one from Rasmussen's? They have had normals in the past for under $40. As many as they have I'm sure they have a female in their lot somewhere.

 

[ReptileAddictions]

JHB- James Bowers of Reptile Non Solutions, another local wanna be competitor. Why am I not surprised ? You buy supplies off LLL and jack up the price and resell it to Rass to resell to spokane jacked up again. What a great guy you are.

Rass sells WILD CAUGHT NON FEEDING ball pythons they acquire in lots for Ian at outback for $7.00 a piece. Ya, they resell them to all of spokane for $40. What a deal. A non feeding snake that dies. If I had a dollar for every customer of theres with a BP issue Id be half way to Tahiti. Heck, they dont even sell live rodents, or sofurs. Success rate on that anyone?

Iraqvet- Spokane does not have a "zoo". Not here or anywhere near here. We have Cat Tales, which has 8 big cats and costs $7.00, we have mobius which is a small science type of kid place. They do have crested geckos I donated. It costs $6.50.

As of yesterdays count I have 832 animals in stock. Reptiles and USDA classified small exotics.

YOU might not pay $5 in the area you live in to see this place. But, people here have never seen 95% of the things in this store and they will pay $5 to tour OR $0 to purchase.

 

[ReptileAddictions]

The store is still for sale, just undergoing some major changes. My private collection at home is still for sale.

 

[JHB1982]

Wendy come on.....do you work at the CPA firm that does my accounting? You know have no idea how I run my business let alone how I manage my supply chain. You also have no idea how anyone else runs their business either. That would be like me saying something off the wall like you are going out business because you order everything COD and write a cold check and now you have finally run out of suckers. Of course you and I both know the latter to be a little bit true with your one disgruntled former vendor who sent out an e-mail to quite a few of us containing your e-mail correspondence about how they could not get payment from you since you were filing bankruptcy. The list goes on and on, but one only has to search your name on here and take a day off to read up on you on Fauna dating back to 2006 before your stay in the "Handcuff Hotel."

http://www.topix.com/forum/city/spokane-valley-wa/TFJTORQO6RC3P3OCA

Let me know if you need translations in the feedback left in other languages. Can't really dispute EBAY feedback can you?

http://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISA...userid=reptilesolutions99206&ftab=AllFeedback

 

[hhmoore]

James,
That's an awful lot of anonymous third party quoting you just posted...posting links to other sites with claims against a subject is not allowed (see the stuck thread toward the top of this forum for Rich's statement on the matter).

Also, the other stores have been recently mentioned in this thread - continuing to recommend them, and posting their prices, could easily be deemed as advertising

 

[bigfatgeckolady]

I dont have time to read all these replies. I will tommorrow. It is late.

The "store" is changing to an "education center" and is being designed as such. It is being treated like a zoo, so we are changing it to a zoo. Example. Door count Sunday was 342 people. Out of those there was 22 transactions. Spokane has never had a place quiet like this and we are trying to adapt to it. I can not afford to pay people to look after children touching things, breaking things, running, screaming, putting finger prints all over, answering 5000 questions on a simple 22 sales.

If they want a zoo, they got it. They have to pay for it like any other place.

I had a pet store and I understand completely! I have bought several animals from them and they have been all 1st quality animals, The top of my breeding stock!

 

[JHB1982]

James,
That's an awful lot of anonymous third party quoting you just posted...posting links to other sites with claims against a subject is not allowed (see the stuck thread toward the top of this forum for Rich's statement on the matter).

Also, the other stores have been recently mentioned in this thread - continuing to recommend them, and posting their prices, could easily be deemed as advertising

Can I make unsubstaniated pointed claims like her then? Is that allowable?

 

[kmurphy]

Can I make unsubstaniated pointed claims like her then? Is that allowable?

You mean like this one.

I both know the latter to be a little bit true with your one disgruntled former vendor who sent out an e-mail to quite a few of us containing your e-mail correspondence about how they could not get payment from you since you were filing bankruptcy.

Pretty poor taste to attempt to sell animals in the BOI either through you directly, or through a business associate.

 

[JHB1982]

You mean like this one.



Pretty poor taste to attempt to sell animals in the BOI either through you directly, or through a business associate.

Umm, I'm failing to see anything remotely that resembles an attempt to sell an animal in what I posted.

Now try and stay focused here. We are talking about Wendy Childs. Wendy Childs who quite possibly has the longest trail of dirty laundry on Fauna.

 

[WebSlave]

You know, honestly, I don't have an issue with this at all. I wonder how many people who run retail shops and/or private breeder facilities has thought the same thing. Heck, I had to close my facility to visits simply because a lot of people treated it like a free zoo. Didn't mind wasting my time for hours on end and want me to pull out nearly every animal I had just so they could look at them. Many had no intention of buying, although a few might make a small token purchase (asking ,what is the cheapest corn snake you have here?).

So what are the choices when you are in a predicament like this?

1. Continue along that route losing valuable time during every visit.
2. Stop visits altogether.
3. Allow only visits from people guaranteeing to buy a certain value of animals.
4. Charge some sort of nominal but deductible admission charge.

No matter which choice you make (except for continuing to allow your time to be mostly wasted), SOMEONE was going to get pissed at you because of it. All I can say, is more power to you if your choice works for you. I think most people in the same position understand, and many probably secretly agree with you. I took the route of disallowing visits and of course, people got pissed at that as well.

Heck, this sort of business plan works for show promoters, doesn't it? All they are basically doing is the same thing using vendors and their animals to get people to pay an admission fee to come and see them. They are simply providing the PLACE for that to take place.

 

[Wolfy-hound]

Rachelle if you are looking for a normal female why don't you just buy one from Rasmussen's? They have had normals in the past for under $40. As many as they have I'm sure they have a female in their lot somewhere.

This would be where you attempted to sell animals in the BOI thread. In case you missed what you posted.

Disregarding Wendy Childs other issues posted on Fauna and elsewhere, posting to direct customers to a competing business in a inappropriate forum is in poor taste. Not sure about the rules on that.

I have no issue charging money to let people look at stock when you get tons of people coming in and out and not buying. I personally don't let folks in at all. But then, I don't have much of anything to show off, either. When you have a ton of critters that people don't see much of in their area, it will be a given that folks will just plain want to come rubberneck at all the cool animals. That wastes a LOT of time, because you do have to keep an eye on them so they don't walk off with anything, or leave a bin/cage/display open, or try to pry one open if they're all locked.

 

[deborahbroadus]

You know, honestly, I don't have an issue with this at all. I wonder how many people who run retail shops and/or private breeder facilities has thought the same thing. Heck, I had to close my facility to visits simply because a lot of people treated it like a free zoo. Didn't mind wasting my time for hours on end and want me to pull out nearly every animal I had just so they could look at them. Many had no intention of buying, although a few might make a small token purchase (asking ,what is the cheapest corn snake you have here?).

So what are the choices when you are in a predicament like this?

1. Continue along that route losing valuable time during every visit.
2. Stop visits altogether.
3. Allow only visits from people guaranteeing to buy a certain value of animals.
4. Charge some sort of nominal but deductible admission charge.

No matter which choice you make (except for continuing to allow your time to be mostly wasted), SOMEONE was going to get pissed at you because of it. All I can say, is more power to you if your choice works for you. I think most people in the same position understand, and many probably secretly agree with you. I took the route of disallowing visits and of course, people got pissed at that as well.

Heck, this sort of business plan works for show promoters, doesn't it? All they are basically doing is the same thing using vendors and their animals to get people to pay an admission fee to come and see them. They are simply providing the PLACE for that to take place. [/QUOTE]

....and the customer doesn't get to deduct the price of admission from his purchase.

 

[ReptileAddictions]

I can see that the same "crew" of wendy haters is going to attempt to hijack this thread and take it way off topic beating the same dead horse.

I am just trying to do my job over here, the best way I can. I am not bothering anyone. Not stalking their businesses. I have better things to do with my day.

You guys should try doing the same, focus on YOUR business and stop worrying about me every day. You might actually become more successful. JMHO

Anyways, I think I have stated my case pretty clearly, hope it helped give some insight. Have a great day!

 

[ReptileAddictions]

FYI - I was stating that to the "crew" of local wanna be competitors.