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Bad Guy MEL KRUGER - CROOK

What is great about the BOI - it warns us who some of the scammers and thieves are. Sometimes, it even forces the Bad Guy to make things right. But I have serious doubts that Kruger will ever make anything right with Bronx Boa. Nonetheless, we are warned about guys like Kruger.

What is sort of silly about the BOI - it gets on ridiculous little side tangents, like recording phone messages. I suppose Bronx Boa can record all his phone calls, sent and received, with the hope of recording Kruger confessing to his crime again! Then, in the one in a million chance he gets Kruger on a recording, he can take the recording to who? The local police? The FBI? KGB? CIA?
 
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Then, in the one in a million chance he gets Kruger on a recording, he can take the recording to who? The local police? The FBI? KGB? CIA?
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The local authorities in AZ, who won't care about an out-of-state recording, but who will care a lot about a convicted felon claiming to be in possession of firearms.
 
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Mel send his regards to the Fauna community.

I hope he gets what he deserves. A low-down pathetic crook


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Such low life trash. Anyone that does business with him is either severely misinformed, or is also a criminal like he is. I really hope your doing something besides just sending the occasional text message to say hello.
 
Are we ready to knock off the derogatory and abusive name-calling or will it take corrective action to get people to respond more appropriately? I would argue that compliance by choice is better than compliance by enforcement. The bar is not even set all that high.
 
It's funny, he claims all sorts of things about this site and how this thread won't hurt his business yet he's quick to delete it when I post a link to this thread to his profile! It obviously hurts him or he would leave it there!
 
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I was interested in buying this boa (original ad included). Luckily, I always check the BOI when buying a boa from anyone I've never done business with. After this conversation (text screen shots included) and when he sent me pictures of what I'm assuming are two random snakes saying they were the parents I knew something wasn't right. This is one of Bronx boas stolen snakes (confirmed by him) so obviously he couldn't get me the original breeder to confirm genetics and the photos aren't obviously the real Dam and Sire to this or any Hypo het Sharp Snowglow. He sent pictures of snakes that are obviously not visible Sharp which would then mean he isn't 100% het sharp snowglow as advertised, duh. So not only is he selling a stolen boa. He's using false advertising, sending fake pictures, and all around straight up scamming people. Good guy. Not.
If He thinks this BOI isn't going to negatively affect him or future sells/business, obviously he's sadly mistaken. I would have sent cash for this boa if it was confirmed genetics and a clean BOI. Luckily for me this bread was here. Being in Chicagoland it's to cold to ship right now. Who knows what would have happened with this scam artist once it came time to ship after he had my money for X amount of days. Always check the BOI kids. Even if you're buying from Facebook, kingsnake or anywhere else.


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I was interested in buying this boa (original ad included). Luckily, I always check the BOI when buying a boa from anyone I've never done business with. After this conversation (text screen shots included) and when he sent me pictures of what I'm assuming are two random snakes saying they were the parents I knew something wasn't right. This is one of Bronx boas stolen snakes (confirmed by him) so obviously he couldn't get me the original breeder to confirm genetics and the photos aren't obviously the real Dam and Sire to this or any Hypo het Sharp Snowglow. He sent pictures of snakes that are obviously not visible Sharp which would then mean he isn't 100% het sharp snowglow as advertised, duh. So not only is he selling a stolen boa. He's using false advertising, sending fake pictures, and all around straight up scamming people. Good guy. Not.
If He thinks this BOI isn't going to negatively affect him or future sells/business, obviously he's sadly mistaken. I would have sent cash for this boa if it was confirmed genetics and a clean BOI. Luckily for me this bread was here. Being in Chicagoland it's to cold to ship right now. Who knows what would have happened with this scam artist once it came time to ship after he had my money for X amount of days. Always check the BOI kids. Even if you're buying from Facebook, kingsnake or anywhere else.


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An absolutely superb example of the BOI at work and having an impact on a suspected real bad guy.
But of course good ol Mel will still insist he is not in the wrong and the BOI does not effect him in any way....dream on son!
Nice you did your homework and shared this
 
"I can't tell you who produced the snake because you will just go buy from him", that is hilarious! Even if someone hadn't read this I'm pretty sure that statement would be enough to scare them away. Everything he said to the potential customer screamed scam artist. Anyone who has been around a while and has bought a lot of animals can see right through his scams, he has sold a bunch of Alex's snakes so I'm lead to believe he is praying on people who are new to our community and don't know to check here and don't have well tuned scamdar (you know scam radar lol).
 
I wonder if the state of Arizona would like to read this thread. I'm sure the state wouldn't want to back up a guy who is in possession of and selling items that don't belong to him since he never paid for them. I doubt they condone that kind of behavior. If I understood the laws about the trade name thing, if Alex presses charges and mel is convicted the state has every right to revoke his trade name.
 

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Mr. Kruger sure is busy trying to sell alex's snakes. I bet these are his too. I really hope the trade name people read this thread.
 

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I wonder what kind of situation he thinks im going to get involved with from posting this link to his facebook ads?
 

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He still keeps deleting the link I keep posting on his profile. I am keeping screen shots of every one he deletes. I'm sure he will still say this isn't hurting his sales but it's obvious it is since he keeps deleting the link.
 
I do love the BOI. I've been looking for a ghost, came across one of his ads, spent the next hour or two reading this thread.

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I'd add a thread or ad on some of these pages. There is also Yelp and a few other places.




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