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I do not have concrete proof that this individual, who has continued to badger me by email and harass me by phone about selling my animals to them, has the intention of flipping my animals. But I, and others whom I have consulted, feel the circumstantial evidence to support this is strong enough to post my experience on the BOI.
This person, screen name “gorgeousreptiles”, goes by the name Blanch McAdam, Aaron Yepet, Dan Sason, and Yepet Reptiles. He used the email address [email protected] to first contact me regarding an ad I posted on kingsnake for 2.0 Pastels and 0.1 Spider ball pythons on 8/23/2008.
Below is a record of our correspondence. I have omitted the irrelevant content from a few of the emails.
----- Original Message ----
From: blanch mcadam <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2008 4:55:27 PM
Subject: interested in bumblebees and maybe a pastel jungle
let me know what is available at this time.i am seeking a young juv and a adult breeder for bumblebee or pastel jungle.
On 8/25/08, Catie Casperson <[email protected]> wrote:
Blanch,
I have a female spider available for $XXX. I also have two male pastels for $XXX each. If you wanted to do a bumblebee package I could take $XX off of the total, which would then be $XXX + shipping. They are all 2008 animals meaning the female would probably be ready to breed in 2 years, 3 at the most. Either of the male pastels would be of breeding size next season (winter of 2009-2010). If you have any more questions, feel free to ask.
Thank you for your interest!
-Catie
www.caspersonreptiles.com
--- On Thu, 8/28/08, blanch mcadam <[email protected]> wrote:
From: blanch mcadam <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: interested in bumblebees and maybe a pastel jungle
To: "Catie Casperson" <[email protected]>
Date: Thursday, August 28, 2008, 11:19 AM
hi thanks for getting back to me.i am very interested in getting a pastel jungle at that price,can i get a picture of the 2.0 pastel?what would total plus shipping be if i decided to go for the pastels?any phone number i can call?
cheers,
blanch
On 8/28/08, Catie Casperson <[email protected]> wrote:
Blanch,
I am out of town until Monday but will send updated pictures as soon as I get back. I charge a flat rate of $50 for shipping via Fed Ex to the lower 48. Where are you located?
The total for both male pastels, shipping included, would be $XXX. For just one of the pastels, $XXX shipped.
You can reach me at XXX-XXX-XXXX after 8 pm central time tomorrow. (It is a cell phone and my other half has it until then.) If for some odd reason I can't get to the phone, just leave a message with your phone number and I will call you right back.
I am sorry I can't get pictures to you sooner! If you have any questions just give me a call tomorrow evening or anytime this weekend.
Thanks,
-Catie
www.caspersonreptiles.com
----- Original Message ----
From: blanch mcadam <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Monday, September 1, 2008 3:14:09 AM
Subject: Re: interested in bumblebees and maybe a pastel jungle
hi thanks,so for the 2 male pastels,everything plus shipping to zip 98115 will cost $XXX and that's it right?i am located in Seattle,WA.how is the payment done?
please send updated pics of the 2 males with the word GUILDFORDBAITSERVICES written on a paper and placed beside the morphs.
cheers,blanch
** Please try to keep from jumping on me about falling for this. I am very new to selling animals on the internet. I had heard of scammers trying to steal pictures of expensive morphs and collect money for the animals which they don’t own, but I never thought they would bother with relatively low-value morphs like what I was selling. I know now that I was wrong to send them pictures with their names in the pictures. I have learned my lesson the hard way and will never post/email another picture of any of my animals without a watermark on it. Please keep this in mind while you read further.
On 9/1/08, Catie Casperson <[email protected]> wrote:
Blanch,
I couldn't fit all of the pictures on this email so I had to send two. The three pictures in this email are of male #1. He weighs in at 78g on empty. In the last picture, the card got cut off but I felt it was the best representation of his color. He is more orange on his sides than his brother. Pastel male #2 is more yellow overall and weighs 91g on empty. They are both feeding on live hopper mice.
I prefer payment via postal money order, but also accept PayPal payments for an additional fee- $10.00 in your case. I don't like using this method because of the fee they charge to do the transaction. If you decide on purchasing these two, please read over the terms section on my website and I will email you with the info or you can call me at XXX-XXX-XXXX and we can do it over the phone.
The total for both animals, including shipping, will be $XXX if you decide to pay with postal money order. If you would prefer PayPal, the total will be $XXX.
If you have any more questions, feel free to call or email.
Thanks,
-Catie
www.caspersonreptiles.com
On 9/1/08, Catie Casperson <[email protected]> wrote:
Here are the pictures of Pastel Male #2.
-Catie
www.caspersonreptiles.com
----- Original Message ----
From: blanch mcadam <[email protected]>
To: Catie Casperson <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 2, 2008 2:53:22 PM
Subject: Re: interested in bumblebees and maybe a pastel jungle
hi thanks,the guys are actually stunning.my friend says he will like to have a spider and i told him you have a female.is there a way you can another pic of all 3 snakes with my friend's name Aaron Yepet written on a paper as you did with these ones.i don't have internet at home so i only will surely have to give you a call when you get back to me to talk the details.and will it still be a flat shipping rate for all 3 snakes?
please do give me a quote on the terms of payment if it is a one time payment before delievery or down payment and balance upon delivery.
cheers,
blanch
On 9/3/08, Catie Casperson <[email protected]> wrote:
Blanch,
I'm glad you like the pastels! I took pics of the spider with the card as you requested. Additional pics of her are on my website. The lighting is better on those than the ones I took last night. I took a weight on her before feeding last night, 159g. She is eating live adult mice.
There will be an additional $15 shipping fee if you decide to get the spider female also. Here is a breakdown of the cost:
**OMITTED**
I require the total to be paid in full to myself before I ship the animals.
I will be home today after 5 p.m. central time, feel free to call!
-Catie
www.caspersonreptiles.com
On 9/3/08, Catie Casperson <[email protected]> wrote:
this pic wouldn't fit on the other email...
----- Original Message ----
From: blanch mcadam <[email protected]>
To: Catie Casperson <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 3, 2008 2:14:22 PM
Subject: Re: interested in bumblebees and maybe a pastel jungle
hi thanks,we are very interested on having the snakes delivered.also how long will shipping take?all things equal,i'm gonna call you later today.
cheers,
blanch
On 9/3/08, Catie Casperson <[email protected]> wrote:
I can ship as early as Monday or Tuesday of next week. Let me know what would work for you as someone needs to be there when the package is delivered to sign for it. I ship Priority Overnight meaning it will be there by 10:30 a.m. the following morning.
-Catie
www.caspersonreptiles.com
**NEVER RECEIVED PHONE CALL ON 9-3-2008
--- On Thu, 9/4/08, blanch mcadam <[email protected]> wrote:
From: blanch mcadam <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: interested in bumblebees and maybe a pastel jungle
To: "Catie Casperson" <[email protected]>
Date: Thursday, September 4, 2008, 7:28 PM
hi thanks,i will call you after work later today.
**I received a phone call from a strange phone number. The number that showed up on my phone was “+019”. The call was extremely broken up even though I had full service on my phone. The voice on the other end said their name was Blanch, although the voice was most definitely that of a man. He had a foreign accent but I couldn’t tell what it was because the call was so broken up. He also asked if I had any piebalds (the other morph mentioned in his ads). I told him no. He then started quizzing me about how he would know that I really had the snakes etc. and that I needed to prove some way that I had hatched them. Foolishly, I agreed to “prove it” with the same method as before, with their name on the card with the parents.
On 9/4/08, Catie Casperson <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Blanch,
I'm sorry I lost you on the phone earlier. I don't know if the connection was bad or what. I couldn't dial the number that showed up on the caller ID to call you back either. I included pictures of both sets of parents with your name on the card. The normals in the pictures are the females.
I have feeding records of all the babies we hatch from the time they were born, which I include for you when I ship.
I am not sure if you heard me before the phone cut out but we are currently not working with piebalds. The last morphs we have are the 2.0 pastels and 0.1 spider that you are interested in.
I work at 4 p.m. today so if you try calling back and I don't answer just leave a message and I'll call you back tomorrow.
-Catie
www.caspersonreptiles.com
----- Original Message ----
From: blanch mcadam <[email protected]>
To: Catie Casperson <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, September 6, 2008 3:23:32 PM
Subject: Re: interested in bumblebees and maybe a pastel jungle
hi thanks for your email and also for the pics of the cute parents.yet again,i am trying to call you to discuss the payment but for some reason i can't get through to you.what information do i need to make the payment?
cheers,
blanch
** My phone had full service since the last call and never showed evidence that he tried calling.
On 9/6/08, Catie Casperson <[email protected]> wrote:
Blanch,
I just had someone call my phone to make sure it was still working and it is. I'm not sure what the issue could be. Anyway, I don't recall you saying how you wanted to pay so I will include instructions and totals for both.
**OMITTED
When you decide on the method of payment, please let me know. Also include when you plan on sending it/ making the transaction. Make sure that you read the "Terms" section on my website before sending payment also. Have you got a date in mind for shipping?
Thanks,
-Catie
www.caspersonreptiles.com
***After this I didn’t hear back until I emailed on the 10th.
On 9/10/08, Catie Casperson <[email protected]> wrote:
Blanch,
If you are still planning on purchasing the animals please let me know by tomorrow. If I don't hear from you I will assume you changed your mind and they will be put back on the market. Please let me know.
Thanks,
-Catie
www.caspersonreptiles.com
----- Original Message ----
From: blanch mcadam <[email protected]>
To: Catie Casperson <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 2:01:20 PM
Subject: Re: interested in bumblebees and maybe a pastel jungle
hi there Catie,am so sorry i had to keep you waiting.like i told you,i don't have internet at home and i don't work on sundays plus i had to take 2 days off,that is the reason why i wasn't able to get back to you in last few days so i didn't get to receive the payment information until now.please i really do apologize.i was sitting on this computer only to check if you still had the morphs and i am grateful they are still there.
i will pay for them as soon as possible...hopefully when i call you will be there to talk.
cheers
Blanch
**I started to get sick of being jerked around so I decided to google/search the BOI for “Blanch McAdam” and found nothing. Then I tried “Aaron Yepet” and found this ad on domesticsale.com
1 piebalds, albinos and more ball pythons
- Breed: various
- Ages: various
- Color: various
i have lots of ball python morphs(CB and WC) to offer at the moment, all at very good prices.
lying in my facility at the moment are albino balls, bumblebees, piebalds, pastels, spiders, clowns,
super mojave(blue eyed leucistics) and more ball morphs.
i have them available in all categories from newly hatched babies, sub adults and adults ready to start breeding.
i also have homozygous ball pythons of severals mutations.i am also expecting new hatchlings for albinos, pieds
and pastels.get to know better
Aaron Yepet (Livingston Manor, New York)
** Note his location is in NY and Blanch’s is in WA. This concerned me so I decided to ask a respected member of BP.net what they would do in this situation. She told me to back out of the deal, which I did. I tried to be polite because I thought they just didn’t have the money and were trying to drag it out until they could pay for it. I also looked up the number that showed up on my caller ID and found out that it is a foreign number. For the sake of not being charged a large sum to answer these calls, I stopped answering them.
On 9/12/08, Catie Casperson <[email protected]> wrote:
I'm sorry Blanch, but I cannot hold the animals for you any longer. If you get the money together, contact me. They may still be available.
Sorry for any inconvenience,
-Catie
www.caspersonreptiles.com
----- Original Message ----
From: blanch mcadam <[email protected]>
To: Catie Casperson <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2008 11:13:31 AM
Subject: Re: interested in bumblebees and maybe a pastel jungle
Hi thanks for emailing to keep me informed on your next plan of action but please don't sell the animals to some one else.I have the money to pay for them plus i also tried to call your number yesterday to discuss with you in person since i called the other day and spoke to a certain male.yet again no one was there to answer.
i will have my fiancee pay for the animals as soon as possible.
cheers,
Blanch
**This was the day that he called me 8 times. I don’t have the exact times but recall there were 8 phone calls over the course of the day. Two were earlier in the day, but later he called me 6 times in a row from the foreign number . Trying to be fair and not assume the worst in this person, I sent the following email thinking that perhaps he would clear up the discrepancies over the phone.
On 9/13/08, Catie Casperson <[email protected]> wrote:
Blanch,
Please call me from a U.S. number. My phone company charges me a very high rate to answer your calls. I will be home after 7p.m. central time tonight or after 8p.m. tomorrow night.
-Catie
www.caspersonreptiles.com
**It was this night that I was surfing BP.net and found a link to a classified of someone who had just joined. The email was [email protected] . The add read:
2.0 pastel ball morphs $225 each,0.1 female juvenile spider ball for $350 and 13 young newly hatched 100% visual piebalds now available.Plus i have morphs still hatching new clutches for piebalds,bumblebees and albinos.
feel free to contact me in case you need anything [email protected]
**Given the nature of their frantic telephone calls, I concluded that it was because they had re-listed the animals they were going to buy from me for more money than I was charging them. I then contacted a moderator on BP.net and let them know of my situation.
On 9/16/2008 at 6:24a.m. I received the first phone call from this same foreign number. I was not happy so I pressed the ignore button. Between then and 9:21a.m. I received 10 calls from this person. I did not answer any of them. They called three more times later that day, making it a total of 13 calls. I was very sick of being harassed like this so I sent the following email:
On 9/16/08, Catie Casperson <[email protected]> wrote:
Blanch,
I will NOT be selling you the animals. Seeing as you have called me from the foreign number more than 16 times in the last two days after my request for you not to do so I will be contacting my phone provider to inform them of this harassment. You are not to contact me by phone, email, U.S. post, or in person from this date forward (September 16th, 2008). I will be printing a dated copy of this email as proof that I have informed you to stop your attempts to contact me. I will also be keeping records of all our correspondences as proof that the pictures I sent to you belong to me and that neither you nor Aaron Yepet have any affiliation with me or the animals in the pictures. Neither you nor Aaron Yepet have any right to use these pictures for your own gains nor are either of you to re-post these pictures or misrepresent these animals pictured in any way.
-Catie
They have not called since but have kept sending emails.
On 9/16/08, blanch mcadam <[email protected]> wrote:
hi what is this suppose to mean?i have already told my fiancee to prepare a place for the animals,why then do you have to back off?
please if i must explain then you have to understand that i am just eager to have the animals that is why i am making sure that they don't go to any other person.i am out of the US for only 2 weeks or so but i still want to have you ship the animals to my fiancee in Fullerton,CA before my return.
we are ready to pay for them as soon as possible,but i just need to work out every details accordingly...please understand.
my regards,
Blanch
Later that day…
please Catie,i really want to have your snakes.i apologise if i actually bugged you trying to reach you on the phone.like i did mention earlier,you can however include the additional call cost into the sum total.
hope to read from you again.
cheers,
Blanch
**Here is a copy of a message I sent to the moderator who was helping me. It contains links to places where this person posted
“Ok, so I had some spare time this afternoon and did some research. I started by googleing [email protected] and found the same ad on two sites:
VenomousReptiles.org
http://www.venomousreptiles.org/clas...s/detail/25654
And some classified site:
http://www.magickclassifieds.com/200...e__a14638.html
On the classified site he/she goes by the name of Dan Sason from New York and gives the phone number: 604-550-7000.
So i googled Dan Sason, didn't find anything. So I googled the phone number and found this:
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-604-550-7000
Anyway, I think I'm going to change my phone number just for piece of mind. I sent him/her an email saying what you said to include and also said that I didn't give him or aaron yepet permission to use my photographs or misrepresent my animals as their own. He emailed me back and said he still wanted to buy them etc. Etc. and have them shipped to CA this time. I don't think I am going to reply. Perhaps ignoring him is the best thing.”
I am sorry to make this a novel, but I don’t want anyone to make the same mistakes that I did. If someone searches for this person on the BOI I want them to know what they may be getting themselves into. I have learned the hard way about how to protect pictures on the internet. Fortunately I did not ship my animals out to this person and had no monetary exchanges with him.
This person, screen name “gorgeousreptiles”, goes by the name Blanch McAdam, Aaron Yepet, Dan Sason, and Yepet Reptiles. He used the email address [email protected] to first contact me regarding an ad I posted on kingsnake for 2.0 Pastels and 0.1 Spider ball pythons on 8/23/2008.
Below is a record of our correspondence. I have omitted the irrelevant content from a few of the emails.
----- Original Message ----
From: blanch mcadam <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2008 4:55:27 PM
Subject: interested in bumblebees and maybe a pastel jungle
let me know what is available at this time.i am seeking a young juv and a adult breeder for bumblebee or pastel jungle.
On 8/25/08, Catie Casperson <[email protected]> wrote:
Blanch,
I have a female spider available for $XXX. I also have two male pastels for $XXX each. If you wanted to do a bumblebee package I could take $XX off of the total, which would then be $XXX + shipping. They are all 2008 animals meaning the female would probably be ready to breed in 2 years, 3 at the most. Either of the male pastels would be of breeding size next season (winter of 2009-2010). If you have any more questions, feel free to ask.
Thank you for your interest!
-Catie
www.caspersonreptiles.com
--- On Thu, 8/28/08, blanch mcadam <[email protected]> wrote:
From: blanch mcadam <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: interested in bumblebees and maybe a pastel jungle
To: "Catie Casperson" <[email protected]>
Date: Thursday, August 28, 2008, 11:19 AM
hi thanks for getting back to me.i am very interested in getting a pastel jungle at that price,can i get a picture of the 2.0 pastel?what would total plus shipping be if i decided to go for the pastels?any phone number i can call?
cheers,
blanch
On 8/28/08, Catie Casperson <[email protected]> wrote:
Blanch,
I am out of town until Monday but will send updated pictures as soon as I get back. I charge a flat rate of $50 for shipping via Fed Ex to the lower 48. Where are you located?
The total for both male pastels, shipping included, would be $XXX. For just one of the pastels, $XXX shipped.
You can reach me at XXX-XXX-XXXX after 8 pm central time tomorrow. (It is a cell phone and my other half has it until then.) If for some odd reason I can't get to the phone, just leave a message with your phone number and I will call you right back.
I am sorry I can't get pictures to you sooner! If you have any questions just give me a call tomorrow evening or anytime this weekend.
Thanks,
-Catie
www.caspersonreptiles.com
----- Original Message ----
From: blanch mcadam <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Monday, September 1, 2008 3:14:09 AM
Subject: Re: interested in bumblebees and maybe a pastel jungle
hi thanks,so for the 2 male pastels,everything plus shipping to zip 98115 will cost $XXX and that's it right?i am located in Seattle,WA.how is the payment done?
please send updated pics of the 2 males with the word GUILDFORDBAITSERVICES written on a paper and placed beside the morphs.
cheers,blanch
** Please try to keep from jumping on me about falling for this. I am very new to selling animals on the internet. I had heard of scammers trying to steal pictures of expensive morphs and collect money for the animals which they don’t own, but I never thought they would bother with relatively low-value morphs like what I was selling. I know now that I was wrong to send them pictures with their names in the pictures. I have learned my lesson the hard way and will never post/email another picture of any of my animals without a watermark on it. Please keep this in mind while you read further.
On 9/1/08, Catie Casperson <[email protected]> wrote:
Blanch,
I couldn't fit all of the pictures on this email so I had to send two. The three pictures in this email are of male #1. He weighs in at 78g on empty. In the last picture, the card got cut off but I felt it was the best representation of his color. He is more orange on his sides than his brother. Pastel male #2 is more yellow overall and weighs 91g on empty. They are both feeding on live hopper mice.
I prefer payment via postal money order, but also accept PayPal payments for an additional fee- $10.00 in your case. I don't like using this method because of the fee they charge to do the transaction. If you decide on purchasing these two, please read over the terms section on my website and I will email you with the info or you can call me at XXX-XXX-XXXX and we can do it over the phone.
The total for both animals, including shipping, will be $XXX if you decide to pay with postal money order. If you would prefer PayPal, the total will be $XXX.
If you have any more questions, feel free to call or email.
Thanks,
-Catie
www.caspersonreptiles.com
On 9/1/08, Catie Casperson <[email protected]> wrote:
Here are the pictures of Pastel Male #2.
-Catie
www.caspersonreptiles.com
----- Original Message ----
From: blanch mcadam <[email protected]>
To: Catie Casperson <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 2, 2008 2:53:22 PM
Subject: Re: interested in bumblebees and maybe a pastel jungle
hi thanks,the guys are actually stunning.my friend says he will like to have a spider and i told him you have a female.is there a way you can another pic of all 3 snakes with my friend's name Aaron Yepet written on a paper as you did with these ones.i don't have internet at home so i only will surely have to give you a call when you get back to me to talk the details.and will it still be a flat shipping rate for all 3 snakes?
please do give me a quote on the terms of payment if it is a one time payment before delievery or down payment and balance upon delivery.
cheers,
blanch
On 9/3/08, Catie Casperson <[email protected]> wrote:
Blanch,
I'm glad you like the pastels! I took pics of the spider with the card as you requested. Additional pics of her are on my website. The lighting is better on those than the ones I took last night. I took a weight on her before feeding last night, 159g. She is eating live adult mice.
There will be an additional $15 shipping fee if you decide to get the spider female also. Here is a breakdown of the cost:
**OMITTED**
I require the total to be paid in full to myself before I ship the animals.
I will be home today after 5 p.m. central time, feel free to call!
-Catie
www.caspersonreptiles.com
On 9/3/08, Catie Casperson <[email protected]> wrote:
this pic wouldn't fit on the other email...
----- Original Message ----
From: blanch mcadam <[email protected]>
To: Catie Casperson <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 3, 2008 2:14:22 PM
Subject: Re: interested in bumblebees and maybe a pastel jungle
hi thanks,we are very interested on having the snakes delivered.also how long will shipping take?all things equal,i'm gonna call you later today.
cheers,
blanch
On 9/3/08, Catie Casperson <[email protected]> wrote:
I can ship as early as Monday or Tuesday of next week. Let me know what would work for you as someone needs to be there when the package is delivered to sign for it. I ship Priority Overnight meaning it will be there by 10:30 a.m. the following morning.
-Catie
www.caspersonreptiles.com
**NEVER RECEIVED PHONE CALL ON 9-3-2008
--- On Thu, 9/4/08, blanch mcadam <[email protected]> wrote:
From: blanch mcadam <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: interested in bumblebees and maybe a pastel jungle
To: "Catie Casperson" <[email protected]>
Date: Thursday, September 4, 2008, 7:28 PM
hi thanks,i will call you after work later today.
**I received a phone call from a strange phone number. The number that showed up on my phone was “+019”. The call was extremely broken up even though I had full service on my phone. The voice on the other end said their name was Blanch, although the voice was most definitely that of a man. He had a foreign accent but I couldn’t tell what it was because the call was so broken up. He also asked if I had any piebalds (the other morph mentioned in his ads). I told him no. He then started quizzing me about how he would know that I really had the snakes etc. and that I needed to prove some way that I had hatched them. Foolishly, I agreed to “prove it” with the same method as before, with their name on the card with the parents.
On 9/4/08, Catie Casperson <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Blanch,
I'm sorry I lost you on the phone earlier. I don't know if the connection was bad or what. I couldn't dial the number that showed up on the caller ID to call you back either. I included pictures of both sets of parents with your name on the card. The normals in the pictures are the females.
I have feeding records of all the babies we hatch from the time they were born, which I include for you when I ship.
I am not sure if you heard me before the phone cut out but we are currently not working with piebalds. The last morphs we have are the 2.0 pastels and 0.1 spider that you are interested in.
I work at 4 p.m. today so if you try calling back and I don't answer just leave a message and I'll call you back tomorrow.
-Catie
www.caspersonreptiles.com
----- Original Message ----
From: blanch mcadam <[email protected]>
To: Catie Casperson <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, September 6, 2008 3:23:32 PM
Subject: Re: interested in bumblebees and maybe a pastel jungle
hi thanks for your email and also for the pics of the cute parents.yet again,i am trying to call you to discuss the payment but for some reason i can't get through to you.what information do i need to make the payment?
cheers,
blanch
** My phone had full service since the last call and never showed evidence that he tried calling.
On 9/6/08, Catie Casperson <[email protected]> wrote:
Blanch,
I just had someone call my phone to make sure it was still working and it is. I'm not sure what the issue could be. Anyway, I don't recall you saying how you wanted to pay so I will include instructions and totals for both.
**OMITTED
When you decide on the method of payment, please let me know. Also include when you plan on sending it/ making the transaction. Make sure that you read the "Terms" section on my website before sending payment also. Have you got a date in mind for shipping?
Thanks,
-Catie
www.caspersonreptiles.com
***After this I didn’t hear back until I emailed on the 10th.
On 9/10/08, Catie Casperson <[email protected]> wrote:
Blanch,
If you are still planning on purchasing the animals please let me know by tomorrow. If I don't hear from you I will assume you changed your mind and they will be put back on the market. Please let me know.
Thanks,
-Catie
www.caspersonreptiles.com
----- Original Message ----
From: blanch mcadam <[email protected]>
To: Catie Casperson <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 2:01:20 PM
Subject: Re: interested in bumblebees and maybe a pastel jungle
hi there Catie,am so sorry i had to keep you waiting.like i told you,i don't have internet at home and i don't work on sundays plus i had to take 2 days off,that is the reason why i wasn't able to get back to you in last few days so i didn't get to receive the payment information until now.please i really do apologize.i was sitting on this computer only to check if you still had the morphs and i am grateful they are still there.
i will pay for them as soon as possible...hopefully when i call you will be there to talk.
cheers
Blanch
**I started to get sick of being jerked around so I decided to google/search the BOI for “Blanch McAdam” and found nothing. Then I tried “Aaron Yepet” and found this ad on domesticsale.com
1 piebalds, albinos and more ball pythons
- Breed: various
- Ages: various
- Color: various
i have lots of ball python morphs(CB and WC) to offer at the moment, all at very good prices.
lying in my facility at the moment are albino balls, bumblebees, piebalds, pastels, spiders, clowns,
super mojave(blue eyed leucistics) and more ball morphs.
i have them available in all categories from newly hatched babies, sub adults and adults ready to start breeding.
i also have homozygous ball pythons of severals mutations.i am also expecting new hatchlings for albinos, pieds
and pastels.get to know better
Aaron Yepet (Livingston Manor, New York)
** Note his location is in NY and Blanch’s is in WA. This concerned me so I decided to ask a respected member of BP.net what they would do in this situation. She told me to back out of the deal, which I did. I tried to be polite because I thought they just didn’t have the money and were trying to drag it out until they could pay for it. I also looked up the number that showed up on my caller ID and found out that it is a foreign number. For the sake of not being charged a large sum to answer these calls, I stopped answering them.
On 9/12/08, Catie Casperson <[email protected]> wrote:
I'm sorry Blanch, but I cannot hold the animals for you any longer. If you get the money together, contact me. They may still be available.
Sorry for any inconvenience,
-Catie
www.caspersonreptiles.com
----- Original Message ----
From: blanch mcadam <[email protected]>
To: Catie Casperson <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2008 11:13:31 AM
Subject: Re: interested in bumblebees and maybe a pastel jungle
Hi thanks for emailing to keep me informed on your next plan of action but please don't sell the animals to some one else.I have the money to pay for them plus i also tried to call your number yesterday to discuss with you in person since i called the other day and spoke to a certain male.yet again no one was there to answer.
i will have my fiancee pay for the animals as soon as possible.
cheers,
Blanch
**This was the day that he called me 8 times. I don’t have the exact times but recall there were 8 phone calls over the course of the day. Two were earlier in the day, but later he called me 6 times in a row from the foreign number . Trying to be fair and not assume the worst in this person, I sent the following email thinking that perhaps he would clear up the discrepancies over the phone.
On 9/13/08, Catie Casperson <[email protected]> wrote:
Blanch,
Please call me from a U.S. number. My phone company charges me a very high rate to answer your calls. I will be home after 7p.m. central time tonight or after 8p.m. tomorrow night.
-Catie
www.caspersonreptiles.com
**It was this night that I was surfing BP.net and found a link to a classified of someone who had just joined. The email was [email protected] . The add read:
2.0 pastel ball morphs $225 each,0.1 female juvenile spider ball for $350 and 13 young newly hatched 100% visual piebalds now available.Plus i have morphs still hatching new clutches for piebalds,bumblebees and albinos.
feel free to contact me in case you need anything [email protected]
**Given the nature of their frantic telephone calls, I concluded that it was because they had re-listed the animals they were going to buy from me for more money than I was charging them. I then contacted a moderator on BP.net and let them know of my situation.
On 9/16/2008 at 6:24a.m. I received the first phone call from this same foreign number. I was not happy so I pressed the ignore button. Between then and 9:21a.m. I received 10 calls from this person. I did not answer any of them. They called three more times later that day, making it a total of 13 calls. I was very sick of being harassed like this so I sent the following email:
On 9/16/08, Catie Casperson <[email protected]> wrote:
Blanch,
I will NOT be selling you the animals. Seeing as you have called me from the foreign number more than 16 times in the last two days after my request for you not to do so I will be contacting my phone provider to inform them of this harassment. You are not to contact me by phone, email, U.S. post, or in person from this date forward (September 16th, 2008). I will be printing a dated copy of this email as proof that I have informed you to stop your attempts to contact me. I will also be keeping records of all our correspondences as proof that the pictures I sent to you belong to me and that neither you nor Aaron Yepet have any affiliation with me or the animals in the pictures. Neither you nor Aaron Yepet have any right to use these pictures for your own gains nor are either of you to re-post these pictures or misrepresent these animals pictured in any way.
-Catie
They have not called since but have kept sending emails.
On 9/16/08, blanch mcadam <[email protected]> wrote:
hi what is this suppose to mean?i have already told my fiancee to prepare a place for the animals,why then do you have to back off?
please if i must explain then you have to understand that i am just eager to have the animals that is why i am making sure that they don't go to any other person.i am out of the US for only 2 weeks or so but i still want to have you ship the animals to my fiancee in Fullerton,CA before my return.
we are ready to pay for them as soon as possible,but i just need to work out every details accordingly...please understand.
my regards,
Blanch
Later that day…
please Catie,i really want to have your snakes.i apologise if i actually bugged you trying to reach you on the phone.like i did mention earlier,you can however include the additional call cost into the sum total.
hope to read from you again.
cheers,
Blanch
**Here is a copy of a message I sent to the moderator who was helping me. It contains links to places where this person posted
“Ok, so I had some spare time this afternoon and did some research. I started by googleing [email protected] and found the same ad on two sites:
VenomousReptiles.org
http://www.venomousreptiles.org/clas...s/detail/25654
And some classified site:
http://www.magickclassifieds.com/200...e__a14638.html
On the classified site he/she goes by the name of Dan Sason from New York and gives the phone number: 604-550-7000.
So i googled Dan Sason, didn't find anything. So I googled the phone number and found this:
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-604-550-7000
Anyway, I think I'm going to change my phone number just for piece of mind. I sent him/her an email saying what you said to include and also said that I didn't give him or aaron yepet permission to use my photographs or misrepresent my animals as their own. He emailed me back and said he still wanted to buy them etc. Etc. and have them shipped to CA this time. I don't think I am going to reply. Perhaps ignoring him is the best thing.”
I am sorry to make this a novel, but I don’t want anyone to make the same mistakes that I did. If someone searches for this person on the BOI I want them to know what they may be getting themselves into. I have learned the hard way about how to protect pictures on the internet. Fortunately I did not ship my animals out to this person and had no monetary exchanges with him.
