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Bad Guy Ray Woodring (Rays Pythons) DOA bad shipper

LauraB said:
What the ?? Freaking despicable what that poor snake went through!

Please provide more info on this seller and the transaction. (I've never heard of the guy.) When did your transaction take place? Address, email addy, phone etc. of this seller will also help ID him on other sites he may want to sell on as well as here. Is he a member here?

Welcome to the BOI and thanks for the warning and the photos.
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joepythons said:
He threatened you? I posted a link to this thread on every feedback forum on facebook :thumbsup:
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oh yea he was spouting tons of nonsense on Facebook. Few people got it from him. I never grabbed any screen shots of anything as I found most of it just amusing. People can go a little off the handle when called out for screwing up.
 
He also has multiple Twitter accounts:
 

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hhmoore said:
How did you learn that another snake he shipped that same day arrived the same way?
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They saw a post on Facebook and said that it happened to them as well, once I confronted him about it because he said the other 2 arrived safe and alive, he said that only one arrived alive but how am I to know to believe him because he lied the first time and the 3rd person has not come forward.
 
Jmusthaf said:
They saw a post on Facebook and said that it happened to them as well, once I confronted him about it because he said the other 2 arrived safe and alive, he said that only one arrived alive but how am I to know to believe him because he lied the first time and the 3rd person has not come forward.
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Perhaps you missed my followup
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Yes...but, at this point, the OP hasn't responded; so the claim is based on an anonymous statement found on another site.
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Since you haven't been very active here, over the year you've been registered, consider this a reminder that anonymous third party quotation is not acceptable on the BOI. If you want to reference something that somebody told you (or posted someplace), you have to identify the source.
Now that you've referenced it again, you're out of free passes. Who made the other claim?
 
Here are Richard Prater's comments. Thanks for the link, Jena.
 

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Those pictures made me cry. How horrific! Poor baby must have suffered terribly. Hope you get this resolved and I hope karma bites him in the bum!
 
WHY?!?!?! Why do you put heat packs on the bottom! That puts them in DIRECT contact with the animal the ENTIRE time it is in that box during shipping! An animal should NEVER have direct contact with those heat packs! Everytime I have received an animal (just as recently as Yesterday actually!) the heat pack has been taped securely to the underside of the top piece of foam in the box so that it provides heat but is not in contact with the contents inside!

He was setting that snake up for failure from the get go, and the other snake that he reportedly shipped! Honestly, in that small of a box for that big Ball Python...That snake probably perished before it even got in the hands of Fedex. It probably died shortly after being taped shut in that tiny box.

Reminds me of the kid who climbed into an old microwave in the back of a pick up truck during a game of hide and seek. The door closed on him and he died very shortly thereafter. Or the other BOI story that happened a few months back where an animal baked in the front seat of a truck because the sun coming in through the front windshield raised temperatures to deadly levels. With all that foam and that small of a box and that big of an animal, it probably lasted less than an hour at best once that heat pack really got going.
 
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