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Bad Guy United Morphs - Nick Runde

sigh... as whoever sent the pictures is obviously are lying about the trade animals.. .. I am being nice, with a tad sarcasm..
I cannot but ask,, geeze what about the animals in this? really sucks not only the trade gone bad,, the missing animals not knowing "IF" they are alive, or heck being cared for really sucks big time :(
 
Ok. So I'm reading this thread for the first time tonight.

The bloody bag used for shipping.

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO fake. The blood on his finger....well. Blood isn't translucent. Ketchup would have been more believable. Watered down a little bit so it ain't goopy....

This kid is in some serious hot water....
 
I've been keeping up with this thread, quite an interesting read. Clark, sorry for what has happened to you, hopefully it all works out at some point. This Dakota kid is in for something, and I hope it gets to him soon.

I wonder if he still even has your snakes, maybe he's sold them off already? I would have confronted him head on at the Reptile Expo.
 
nickolasanastasiou said:
Correct.

One should, naturally, also be willing to listen to what your employees have to say in situations like this, but turning a completely blind eye to it is a behavioral risk when someone represents your business in some capacity or has access to the money and/or the product (whether gold or shoelaces). You are not trying to police their lives outside of work, but you also want them to be decent representatives of your work in addition to any functional role. Telling someone to not let the the toilet paper stuck to their shoe in the door of the business is fine.
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^^^^^^^^^^THIS. The manager is there to manage the store and its assets, not necessarily protect the employees to the fullest extent, but to make sure they are safe. The manager is hoping the employees are trustworthy, but if they get wind that one of their employees is a thief, the manager should question the employee about the information received. It doesn't matter how he got the info, but if the manager does come on this site and reads they whole story, Dakota got some 'splainin' to do!

People are fired all the time for their unsavory posts on FB or other social media. The manager then can do whatever he wants as long as it is not discriminatory.

And Nick, I like the toilet paper analogy!

BTW, where'd you go to high school? (Another St. Louisian!)
-Michelle
 
Gotcha...

Yet another picture taken from the internet and used to "sell" a snake. This time over a month ago. No stolen phone issues here :)

My computer has three screens. The left is the picture and discussion on United Morphs website (tagging a potential buyer with this so-called "recent" picture), the middle is the picture from ballmorphs.blogspot dated from 2009 and the right is the initial picture where the conversation was started and UM was asked to post a "recent" picture.
 

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Another re-used picture, this time of a snake that was advertised by Tom Barnhart in October 2013. I suppose its possible that United Morphs purchased the snake, kept it for 6 months, somehow added an "Enchi" gene into the mix, and is reselling it using the same picture... Somehow I doubt it, though.

Anyone know Tom Barnhart to ask if he still owns the snake?
 

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The super pastel onyx pictured in the above post was produced by me in 2012 and is currently at my facility. It has been sold and is on a payment plan currently but I still have possession of this snake until it's paid off.

It was NOT purchased by Mr Runde in Iowa so his using my pic is not legit.

Tom
 
Another

Since Mr. Runde (or Thomsohn or Leto or whomever) of United Morphs knows we are onto him, here's another pic he took from the internet:
 

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And another...

And another and another... is there a single picture of a snake on his website which isn't stolen from the internet???
 

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For any one who is on Instagram. He is on it as well under the user name United Morphs. Posts a lot of high end ball pythons claiming they are his as well as offering them for sale and or trade.
 
Also be advised Dakota Runde also has a Instagram Dakotarunde5 is his user name and is associated with United morphs on there. Someone posted in the comments on a picture of a pastel butter that united morphs had up for trade and mentioned Dakota runde having the same pic on his instagram. Don't know if this helps at all but figured I'd post it
 
I REEEEAAAALLLLY appreciate all of your help on this! All this evidence will hopefully shut him down on scamming others, AND hopefully lead to me getting my snakes back.
 
*snorts* sounds like a load of bull crap you walked into. Really hope you get your snakes back, or they are at least taken from him and put somewhere safe.
 
I just want to point out...There is another person that has been scammed by Dakota. He arranged a trade in February, 2014 with the SAME phone number that Dakota used.

The same tactics, such as the following, were used:
- Dakota claimed to be "Nick Runde"
- He used the SAME phone number of 515-777-9216
- He used the Instagram, "United Morphs"
- He used pictures belonging to others, just found on the internet
- He used the same Ship To address of 9195 Diamondhead Drive, Dexter, IA
- He claimed that the snake (an ivory ball python) died upon arrival. -- I'm still researching this aspect to see how he claimed that the snakes died.
- He ceased communication with the individual when questioned about it.

This establishes quite the concrete proof that Dakota's phone was not stolen or missing during the time he stole my animals.

Another tidbit of information that has been substantiated is that Dakota is 15 years old, smh... Oh, and his name is Dakota Leto, not Dakota Runde.

I don't know if this other individual who has been scammed is a member here. I have had email conversation with him and have invited him to join and post his evidence. He had deleted texts from Dakota, but he thinks he likely has some emails from the same email address that I've contacted Dakota with, [email protected]. He also has the a copy of the shipping label used.

Again, I want to point out how this proves that Dakota's phone was NOT stolen/missing during the time that he scammed me (March 31st to April 3rd, 2014).
 
Who is this mysterious other person, and how did you come by the information?
 
Someone else PM'ed me about it. It's @adams_reptiles on Instagram. Adam Serrano. He sent Dakota an ivory ball python in February. I don't know if it was a male or female, etc. Just that he sent it to him, dead snake was claimed by Dakota, and Adam got scammed. Still gathering info on it.
 
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