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Aldabra.com

So, "aldabra.com" is in Korean; Google translates it into English as something completely unrelated to tortoises.

"aldabras.com" is Ms. Riggs-Miller's company, apparently. A little odd to bump a ten year old post in any event.
 

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They don't even list a website on their ad. Looks fishy to me. I wouldn't do anything unless you have 100% proff.
 
Yes it is, interesting that aladabra ranch brought it back up and just recently posted an ad for tortoises. Ranch has no website yet sell expensive animals.
 
JColt said:
Yes it is, interesting that aladabra ranch brought it back up and just recently posted an ad for tortoises. Ranch has no website yet sell expensive animals.
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Allison has been selling Aldabras here in the states for many years....

I've never dealt with her, but have talked with her many times in the past.


I do know she's responsible for A LOT of the Aldabras here in the states.


Lynn Peterson
Big Time Reptiles
 
Aldabra Ranch said:
Yes, many times. Awesome breeder; met in person. Still producing some of the best quality Aldabra tortoises in the world today.
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Can you meet yourself in person? I guess so, but it seems odd to say it.

nickolasanastasiou said:
They are separate from you, Allison?
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Ms. Riggs-Miller was here an hour after this question was posed, with no response.
 
Maybe Allison's intent is to let prior customers know that she has some exceptional animals for limited sale. Maybe she isn't interested in more procedures, questions, and emails that take her away from what she does best. If she wasn't doing it right she would not be licensed by the Australian government.

If you are not interested enough to do the home work, research the animals and the procedures, perhaps these animals are not for you.
 
Vorlon1 said:
If you are not interested enough to do the home work
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I kind of thought that's what we were doing here, with these inquiries that were made relevant only by someone who dredged up a ten year old post. If I'm mistaken, I'll take a correction.

I don't actually have any interests in tortoises. What caught my eye is someone making statements that can be read as misleading. Perhaps everyone else is crystal clear on what is going on between the lines, but I'm confused as to why someone running a business that apparently has at least two names -- "Aldabra Ranch", and "Aldabras.com" -- would reply to a post that refers to a differently named business -- "Aldabra.com" -- and imply that she herself is some third (fourth?) party giving a reference to someone other than herself:

Aldabra Ranch said:
Yes, many times. Awesome breeder; met in person. Still producing some of the best quality Aldabra tortoises in the world today.
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'Aldabra Ranch' has logged in here at least twice since Nickolas asked for clarification regarding her relation to the business in question here, and has yet to respond. That seems suspicious to me as well.

Again, I don't take this thread to be about tortoises at all -- I take it to be about the odd reply to the first post in this thread.
 
Nothing is guaranteed....
I thought that was implied.

I am not here to argue semantics, or to debate what I think is odd or not.

I guess maybe I don't belong here....
 
I'm not saying this is the case, as I see a well established member of the forums has provided a reference as well, but from an outside point of view it sure does look like someone intended to reply under a different account than they were currently logged in as. Maybe that's just me being paranoid since I started off reading this thread, scared Nick was mad at me when I saw my name in blue text, forgetting there are in fact other Allisons :p
 
Big Time Reptiles said:
Allison has been selling Aldabras here in the states for many years....

I've never dealt with her, but have talked with her many times in the past.


I do know she's responsible for A LOT of the Aldabras here in the states.


Lynn Peterson
Big Time Reptiles
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That's good to know. I seen that she just created an account this week and has no phone or website so seemed odd.
 
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