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The Rachodactylus Network! What the hell is going on over there?

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What the heck is going on over at 'The Rachodactylus Network? It would seem the moderator/moderators are changing the wording in my posts including my classified ad, and they are adding libelous material to them!

I was recently told there were negative and libelous threads being started about me on the Rachodactylus Network under the 'snake forum' and that a picture of mine was being used without my permission in a negative thread about me. Now this site is owned I believe by Bobby Pruett and 'ToHotToHandle' (I believe it is Tim Bowles) is one of the moderators. Obviously the threads these two started are not good at all and are full of libelous comments and lies in order to make me look bad. This has been going on now for well over a year and their antics have aided in the both of them being banned from some forums.

I went to The Rachodactylus Network Forum first hand to read what they were posting about me. I was able to register and even made some nice posts in the gecko sections and tried to defend myself on another thread. A guy named Aaron had some killer leaftails for sale in the gecko section and I posted that I wanted to buy the pair and for him to contact me immediately for payment. I am sorry Aaron but since my posts have been intentionally manipulated seemingly by one of the moderators in order to hurt me, I am no longer interested in purchasing those geckos, you can blame them for that!

I think this is just rediculous and I would like to share what was done to my posts :mad: !

This is my classified ad I posted last night:

Today at 09:41 PM

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Captive bred, and born here at Ghi Reptiles on august 31st 2004, these are outstanding examples of high white emerald tree boas! They are currently feeding on live crawler and pre-killed crawler mice. I have a small waiting list for the babies and if you would like to be added to it please contact me at [email protected]

Thanks!
Matt
Ghi Reptiles

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This is what it was changed to!

Yesterday at 09:41 PM

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CBB august 31st 2004. They are currently feeding on live crawler and pre-killed crawler mice.

Thanks!
Matt
Ghi Reptiles

Read this article to learn more about me.

http://usembassy-australia.state.gov/hyper/WF980810/epf107.htm

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To me this is just an unbelievable criminal act! :mad:


Here is another manipulated post.....first the original post in a thread started by 'ToHotToHandle' and a quote of mine that he took off of the Kingsnake tree boa forum....by the way my company is not 'Gay' reptiles:

9/04/04 at 07:40 AM

Posted by: GAYreptiles at Tue Aug 31 10:39:47 2004

I just got a call from home and my 6' female textbook Basin had 10 little snappers this morning...Am I technically a 'breeder' now or was it just dumb luck?..
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For starters, he didn't do anything but buy this animal and give it to Tony to do all the work.

That doesn't make him a breeder by any stretch of the imagination. How sad is it that he claims this when someone else did all the work and has all the skills.

This is very typical for this guy, he is a master at twisting the truth to suite his needs. It's really a disgrace to Tony to allow this to happen to him.
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This was my reply:

Actually you are right 'ToHotToHandle' I did buy the animal but the rest is wrong. Tony has never even seen the female in person because she has never left my place....so I guess I did all of the work. From what I am told that does make me a breeder....maybe a lucky breeder, but a breeder none the less. So from what you are saying, I must have the 'skills' huh . And no disgrace to Tony....he is actually very happy for me.

I enjoy emeralds and just tried to breed them once and succeeded. There are some guys that get caught ripping off others, have their websites shut down, have to go by aliases to hide their real identity, get booted off of forums, and are known bad guys in the business/hobby.....it's guys like that who lose interest in the animals themselves, sell their sick and misrepresented animals to unsuspecting buyers, and will never breed anything

Thanks for the compliment about my skills though!


Now here is my 'posted reply' manipulated once again:
Actually you are right 'ToHotToHandle' I did buy the animal.

And,

The Service's investigation of the illegal reptile trade has also led to charges in the United States against three Florida residents and a European for dealing in reptiles. One of the Florida residents, Matthew Lerer, was sentenced June 25 to 6 months electronically monitored home detention, 100 hours of community service, and 3 years' probation.

Matt "I am a stalker" Lerer
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So my question is what the hell is going on over there that they would allow this to happen? I mean c'mon imagine if Rich started changing your classified ads to make you look bad.

It seems Bobby Pruett and Tim Bowles are continuing to try and destroy my name and business but now on the Rachodactylus Forum. What will it take for these guys to stop? Identity theft? C'mon.......what a great forum to allow that!

Is this what our great hobby/business has come to, peoples posts on forums and classifieds being manipulated in a bad way in order to hurt the original poster? :(
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I wouldn't worry much...

C'mon, we're talking Bobby Pruett & Tim Bowles here, you'd be bored too if you were kicked off of just about every reptile related forum as well.
 
I just deleted all om my posts on The Rachodactylus Network Forums so they won't be manipulated anymore and I will not post there again.....even to defend against their lies. So if anyone sees a post there from me....it ain't me because I wouldn't personally have anything to do with a forum where people are given the power to play identity theft games.

I am glad I have all of the threads about me and all of the the threads I have started in both their original and manipulated forms on my hard drive and on backup disks......

It will be a reminder to me of how far a couple of scumbags will go to intentionally hurt someone else.
 
sounds like a couple of class act grade A professional dumb$hits....

real mature.... I'm sure people are just LINING up to deal with them. :D
 
Thats just wrong..........

Man I cant believe that they edited your posts ..........Ok.......Well............Yes I can ..........But its still totally wrong ........

I guess he can do what ever he likes on his own forum but have a lil class about it , dont hide behind your mod powers and edit someones post when you dont like what they say ...........If they wanted to have a real debate about all your so called "wrong doings" then act like adults and have one ...........But wait .........I keep forgetting that you arent dealing with adults are you ..........So I guess thats all they could do ......... edit and bash without having to prove thier slanderous remarks .........So sad ........It always amazes me that people like this are able to do business ............. :(
 
truley pathetic in the most extreme aspect of the word....
 
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truley pathetic in the most extreme aspect of the word....
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That's Bobby Pruett for you...completely pathetic.

He's demonstrated time and again that he has no ethics... whether it be shipping out half dead snakes, screwing over a 15 year old kid, lying about there being warrents for someone's arrest, or condoning the shipment of an almost dead tree boa pumped full of sq fluids. Oh, and who can forget the loser's "trademarked" bearded dragons...lol.

You can take the trash out of the trailer, but it's still trailer trash nonetheless.
 
Well i asked on HELL of all places about Bobby and apparently he must have seen the thread because i went to check out his site and what do ya know im banned lol, what a jerkoff!
 
Funny, I still am not banned. They must want me to see what they continue to post. Bobby hasn't said a word but 'ToHotToHandle' if flying off the handle! Ken H. you've got mail!
 
Well this scammer is probably angry because he got caught selling sick and misrepresented animals. I mean we all know the two of them have a huge vendetta against me for outing them as scammers and liars so I guess as long as they keep it on their own site it won't get too many views......but changing the contents of my classified ad was/is a pu$$y thing to do. I will bet the farm that neither one of them has the guts to come on here and admit that he did it. Shouldn't be a problem though one is completely out of the business/hobby for good and the other just doesn't care about anything.
 
I see you still have a problem with the facts Matt. I havent touch any of your post. I wanted to ban you the sec you joined. I even sent you a pm telling you to keep it on the snake forum if you and tim wanted to go rounds or I would ban you. I really like how your friends troll my forum. Its simple, the rhac forum is for people to come and share info with each other and learn from each other. I will continue to decline new members I think are there just to start trouble. Do what you like on these forums and just stay away from if you hate me that much. I have better things to do then to sit here and fight with a convicted reptile smuggler. Have fun and keep up the good work...
 
I see you still have a problem with the facts Matt. I havent touch any of your post. I wanted to ban you the sec you joined. I even sent you a pm telling you to keep it on the snake forum if you and tim wanted to go rounds or I would ban you. I really like how your friends troll my forum. Its simple, the rhac forum is for people to come and share info with each other and learn from each other. I will continue to decline new members I think are there just to start trouble. Do what you like on these forums and just stay away from if you hate me that much. I have better things to do then to sit here and fight with a convicted reptile smuggler. Have fun and keep up the good work...
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For starters your PM's don't even get read so save your typing fingers and your ideas. It seems not only do you have a problem with facts but also comprehension, I did not finger you as the culprit but I am sure you were well aware of what was/is still going on. If you wanted to ban me the second I joined....why didn't you? Was it so your a$$hole buddy could screw with my posts? Your forum right? Do you have no say? As far as my friends trolling your forum, anybody can do whatever they want and I am not in control of them, besides who was the one who came up with about 10 aliases to screw with me on three different forums ;) ? If the Rach forum is for people to come and share info with each other and learn from each other, learn to get control of your worthless moderator Tim. As far as hating you....I don't hate anybody I just know what a worthless piece of garbage you are for ripping me off and screwing with me for almost two years and from what I have seen and from what I got out of our previous conversations you are just a bad person in general. Fighting with a convicted reptile smuggler? You haven't fought with me at all, you just prove what a classes jerk you are day after day with your lies and more lies to cover your od lies.

Since about 35% of your snake forum threads are all about bashing me your BS won't fly here or anywhere. Go crawl back under your rock and don't PM me again. Let this serve as a final notice to you to not contact me in any way shape or form.....not even as one of many aliases
 
I see you still have a problem with the facts Matt.
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And you have a problem by posting stuff like this:

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Registered: 4/24/04
Posts: 178 8/02/04 at 12:29 PM

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*EPF107 08/10/98
TEXT: BUSINESSMAN CHARGED WITH SMUGGLING RARE REPTILES
(U.S. Wildlife Service vows to fight animal trafficking) (1290)


The Service's investigation of the illegal reptile trade has also led to charges in the United States against three Florida residents and a European for dealing in reptiles. One of the Florida residents, Matthew Lerer, was sentenced June 25 to 6 months electronically monitored home detention, 100 hours of community service, and 3 years' probation. Matt Lerer of GHI Reptiles was busted with illegal smuggled turtles in his pants. Matt Lerer snitch on his friends and pled guilty to a lesser charge of conspiracy to smuggle... Now he's nothing but a convicted felon involving smuggling ... Why is it the people that say they care about the animals support Matt Lerer???

Matt Lerer of GHI Reptiles had a snake test positive for the PARAMYXOVIRUShttp://www.vetmed.ufl.edu/sacs/wildlife/Pmyx.html... Buyers Beware!

Here is the link to the entire article.

ARTICLE ON REPTILE SMUGGLERS

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Seems to me like you are the one with the problem....no I wasn't busted with turtles in my pants, and YES Tim Bowles did sell me a snake that tested positive for the Paramyxovirus so you are right buyers beware, and no none of my other animals have any health problems, and yes Tim did ironically sell off his collection, and yes I think people support me because I am honest, at least I sell good quality animals, and I am not known for ripping people off ;) . Anything else Einstein?
 
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I see you still have a problem with the facts Matt. I havent touch any of your post. I wanted to ban you the sec you joined. I even sent you a pm telling you to keep it on the snake forum if you and tim wanted to go rounds or I would ban you. I really like how your friends troll my forum. Its simple, the rhac forum is for people to come and share info with each other and learn from each other. I will continue to decline new members I think are there just to start trouble. Do what you like on these forums and just stay away from if you hate me that much. I have better things to do then to sit here and fight with a convicted reptile smuggler. Have fun and keep up the good work...
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Facts huh??? Bobbie do you really want me to post everything I know about you like I did on the old TRR site?? You cried a river after that now didn't you. So do you really want to go down this raod yet again and be shown for what you really are? Thanks for trying to play yet once again, but when you try you end up with egg on your face yet once again. :rofl:
 
Hey pruett, did Phillip ever get the albino cornsnake you owe him? You remember it right? After you sold a 15 year old kid some ground boas that were so close to death that EVEN YOU must have known that they would not survive you agreed to give him an albino corn and THEN had the nerve to stiff him for that and tell him he was SOL.

Brian, I think you should post all those little facts about bobby here. He deserves it.
 
Huh!?

Its simple, the rhac forum is for people to come and share info with each other and learn from each other.
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You mean like the people who were recently banned from your Rhacodactylus forum because they disagreed with your negative opinion of Philippe DeVosjoli?

They learned alright, they learned what a blight on this hobby you really are.

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Brian, I think you should post all those little facts about bobby here. He deserves it.
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Ok what shall it be Wes? SSI number, DL number, physical address, vehicle tag and VIN number, FBI number, relatives, prison buddies, or just the straight facts he is nothing but a scam artist (I think we all know this don't we) ??
 
Hey pruett, did Phillip ever get the albino cornsnake you owe him? You remember it right? After you sold a 15 year old kid some ground boas that were so close to death that EVEN YOU must have known that they would not survive you agreed to give him an albino corn and THEN had the nerve to stiff him for that and tell him he was SOL.
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Hey Wes,

Hey Wes,

Since after months and months, Bobby couldn't step up to the plate and do what was right for Philip, and after bashing him too, my nicer side got the better of me and I took care of Philip. I felt that a 15 year old kid (sorry Philip) shouldn't have to lern the hard way of about the ripoffs in the business so I substituted a couple of animals for the one Pruett owed him. What's next stealing social security checks from the elderly?
 
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