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I've conducted plenty of business trades with Sal and Alison. Every single animal I've received from them has been delivered on time and properly packaged. As well as healthy, happy and eating well.

Sal even went out of his way to hand pick only the nicest patterned ball pythons to send me. Including a true gold striped morph at no extra cost when he was sending me a 5-lot. I can honestly say that I have yet to see a nicer group of bp's.

Sal and Alison are friendly, honest and knowledgable people who know what they're doing when it comes to both animals and running a business. I also received an alert, plump, brightly-colored and frisky young argus monitor on Tuesday.

I'm just telling it like it is, both Sal and Alison are great people and every animal I've recieved in our trades has been top notch.

Also if anyone feels like trashing me about my comments, do it on someone else's thread. I'm stating my personal experience with Upstate Exotics, no crap just the honest truth.

I look forward to doing more business with them in the near future!


Semper Fi

-Adam Bradley Borgen
 
There are exceptions to every rule as you have just pointed out. They are well known for poor quality, lieing, and not backing up their guarentee.

Glad you're happy but, there are MANY who are not. They, sal and allison, are not good guys, they have proven themselves many times to be just the opposite.

Wes Pollock
 
Adam,

Welcome! And I'm glad your transaction with Upstate Exotics went fine. Taking into consideration that you registered today, it is understandable that in your eagerness to post you overlook the rules. Not counting this post of yours there are 4 other posts on Upstate Exotics. Whenever possible (as stated in the rules for posting) one should ad a coment on an existing thread. By doing so, all coments on a given person/company are maintained on a single thread. It's easier for people doing a search in the future.

Regards
 
Adam,

I'm south of Watertown. Just out of curiosity, a true gold striped morph? The name suggests an inheritable trait (morph). I have heard before of a genetic stripe. Did you come up with that name?

Regards,
 
Just out of curiosity, a true gold striped morph?
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I was wondering about this as well, and im also glad things went well for you as it seems that they have quite a few problems from time to time.
 
Alvaro, check out their price list. They have nothing but normal ball pythons but every one has some kind of morph name next to it to make it sound special.

Here's just a few:
Peach phase, partial stripe, aberrant, high yellow, yellow stripe, gold phase, black back, high yellow possible jungle, partial black stripe.

They only have one that's listed as a normal. What a joke!
 
Chris,

I understand what you're saying, but none of them are listed as "genetic" anywhere, and the prices aren't indicative of a morph. Looks to me like Upstate is just trying to market with a lot of adjectives.

Adam's description of a "true gold stripe morph" may simply be Adam's interpretation, since I don't think such a morph exists. Now, if Sal or Allison TOLD him that's what he was getting..... well, don't want to get into that.
 
Adam's description of a "true gold stripe morph" may simply be Adam's interpretation, since I don't think such a morph exists.
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Terese,

I never heard of it either, that's why I was asking. The two words that enticed my curiosity were "true" and "morph". Again as long as no one claims them to be genetic (until they are proven) and/or the name does not lead to confusion with another proven morph, I don't see nothing wrong with names describing what they look like. But again, that's just MHO.

Regards.
 
Run Away, Don't walk, RUN!

I purchased 2 allegedly c.b. animals from Upstate a few weeks ago. Here is what I got: 1 animal missexed, 1 animal with a severely kinked tail, both animals regurgitating with smelly loose stools, both animals positive for coccidia. Thank goodness I quarantine all new arrivals.

Within 10 minutes of receipt of the animals I reported to Sal that one was missexed and had a kinked tail and to be fair he refunded my money for that animal promptly. I have not reported the subsequent problems to him (I have no desire to communicate or have any relationship with them any more) and frankly I don't care about the money which was not much at all. But the point is there is no way that Upstate did not know about the health condition of these animals (in addition to not being able to sex properly or notice severe tail kinks) and selling animals in this condition as healthy, feeding, c.b. animals is completely unscrupulous.
 
Hey Webslave,
Do you think this thread should be merged with an already existing thread? It seems that it was started to avoid the VERY NEGATIVE publicity that upstate has surrounded themselves with. It would be a shame for a newbie to see only this thread on them and do business based on this alone.

Now, I am in no way trying to tell you how to run this site, just one users opinion on how it looks, as if some whitewash was being applied to a rather dark reputation.

Wes Pollock
 
Wes,

I agree, the multiple threads would be more efficient if they were merged. However, if someone does a search on Upstate, they'll get plenty of links to look at, with enough contradicting thread titles that it will intrigue them to read them all!
 
Yes, it would be nice if people could read directions and follow rules but in this day and age I am afraid it is more than we can hope for with some people. I agree that it would be a shame for anyone to just read a good guy thread, but as Terese said, any search will provide several links, not to mention that at least by the third post in any "good guy" thread the truth will come out. So unless people read only the first or second post in a thread they will find out how they really do business.

Steve Schindler
 
If you make the BIG mistake of buying from upstate exotics you can't count on getting one thing.....TROUBLE!
 
OOOOOPS!!!!!!!!!!

Rob,

I knew I should of finished my coffee first! LOL

Thanks for the correction! Brain cells don't function too well without it.

Trouble you *CAN* count on buying from them and a whole lot of it too!
 
Thank goodness for the BOI

I was JUST ABOUT TO push the button to OK the purchase of a few snakes from Upstate Exotics when the ole ESP voice told me to check out the BOI. I told Upstate that I'd get back to them once I checked this site out, and they send me a free shipping offer, of which they had refused to do upon an earlier request.

I'd never checked out the BOI before, but I'm sure glad I did, because there on the first page was a report on them. Once read, I asked Upstate if Tony ever got his payment and SILENCE. Needless to say, I didn't get the snakes, and even though I wanted them soooo bad that I almost took a chance on it, and even though I was very jealous when I saw that someone else had gotten them.... I'm reminded that I made the right decission each time I read a new negative report on these people.

Actually, I'm glad that there are multiple threads on them, but I also see your point about putting them all togther too.

THANKS BOI.... your service is CHAMPION.

MissHisssss.
 
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