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Bad Guy ANDREW BIDDLE- MAJOR LEAGUE CONSTRICTORS

I am responding to the case where the snake died in transit to its new owner.... This is a breach of contract case ( I am not saying that there isn't fraud as well). The buyer paid for the snake in full and the seller sent the snake... contract complete. When the buyer did not get what he was originally buying, that was the breach. He was purchasing a snake of a certain size and weight, and did not get that; therefore he is entitled to FULL reimbursement of payment as well he can sue for any items that were purchased for this particular reptile. It would be easier to sue for breach of contract civilly then to sue for fraud. If I were in this guy's shoes, I would have already began my civil case while I waited for law enforcement to do their investigation and the pending criminal charges (if any develop). As well as full reimbursement, additional items purchased; the civil case would include any attorney fees accrued for representation and paperwork. Its not rocket science to see that the seller of the snake breached his contract with the buyer... the buyer just has to stand up and take a stand and do ALL that is available to get his money back. An attorney is not needed to file a civil suit anyway. A call to your local courthouse will tell you who has jurisdiction over this so you can decide where to file... the paperwork is self explanatory, very simple to complete.
 
Keith the money he refunded you should have gone to me and he should of just held this green for you since you did buy it and he is waiting for this to weather over.
 
Just my luck, i havent recieved any paperwork or phone call from the usps like i was suppose to so i called usps again and my claim was never filed. So i filed my claim again and im supposed to get a phone call within the next 2 days.
 
What happend to all the other guys that he got there money they seem to have dissapeared and left 1truth in this alone.united we stand divided we fall.
 
Screwed By Andrew Also

My name is Joe Rasmussen and I am in the same situation. I bought a female burm from Andrew also and never received her. I was holding off on posting here about it because he kept promising me next week, next week. I finally have decided he is never going to ship her.
I bought her from him before this thread was started or I would have never done it. I did search for him and there was nothing bad on him until after I gave him the money. I paid by postal money order because he wouldn't accept anything else. He wouldn't respond to me for a long time and then when he did he said he had a problem with his shipping account and he would get her out now that he had it fixed. Then another week went by with no contact. On the last 2 times he said he was going to ship her he would include something else for my troubles but still no shipping.
I paid him $500 total for the burm and shipping. I sent $100 deposit on 2-19-10 and $400 overnight on 2-25-10 and I asked him if he could ship it around the 1st of March. When I read this thread I figured my money went to paying the other guys back and he didn't have the $185 for the shipping anymore. I have all the dates and mo recepts if needed for the post.I am going to go in tomorrow and file the postal forms and the FBI internet fraud complaint. I would definitely NOT buy from him again. Joe Rasmussen
 
Wow, I'm sorry to hear that youve lost your money as well. This guy is a scam artist. Did anyone talk to him on the phone?? I dont buy from anyone until I talk to them on the phone so I can see if they sound legit.

Good luck again guys. Stay on top of this and you'll get your money back and he'll get what he deserves.
 
This guy wins again because someone knew of this thread read it and did nothing.You are almost as bad as him.Tho I hope you get your money it is obvious you could care less about your fellow man and are only self concerned .
 
In one of Andrews add's he said they dont allow snakes in the Army..I know he isnt in the Army,and doubt he is going in..It sounds like this dude already has a record..But,if it is only petty offenses,he could get a waiver..Now..Lets say he did sign up...He will get in VERY big trouble over fraud..The military dosnt play games.If he thinks he can just forget about it,and the Army will protect him,he will be sadly mistaken...But again,I highly doubt he is joining the military,as he wouldnt make it very far.No one likes a thief.I wouldnt doubt if this dude has a felony or two on him already...I am very hesitant to do businness out of floridia now...For anyone who runs a legit businness there,I am sorry...It just seems like there is alot of bad deals comming out of that state..
 
Its official as of noon today that there are 3 of us who are still not compensated. We have all filed complaints and gone to the authorities
 
Very good guys I hope you guys get this lowlife locked up.I would bet that there are a few more than the 3 so far.As many do not know of fauna and would not know to post here.It seems as tho there was never any good intentions from Andrew and a large muilti level rip off is all that he ever planned.1TRUTH my guess is he shipped you a dead snake from the start.She laied eggs and got sick and died he froze her threw her on heat packs and shipped her.Some people are just no good.
 
I think thats a llittle overboard, to not buy anything from anyone in Florida because this stupid :censored: :censored: :censored: :censored: :censored: But thats your choice. I'm in FL and every single one of my buyers is more than happy with their purchase and I've sold tons of animals and made some trades as well. No issues what so ever.

Just to show you a situation that happened to me:
I was selling my collection of Cutco Knives (very expensive cooking knives), my whole collection was well worth over $5000. Anyway, I got a buyer. I talked to him ON THE PHONE several times, had his address, etc. I said pay by Paypal or Money Order. This guy sent a money order via Overnight delivery (for the agreed amount of $4900). It looked very real however I brought it to my bank to double check. They said it was a fake so I asked what I could do. They said bring it to the Police Station and fill out some paperwork. I went, did everything and the only thing they said was "Did you lose any money to him?" I said "No, but I would have if I fell for this" They said "Sorry we cant do anything about it then". I had EVERYTHING on this guy, his house address, phone number, where he worked, his email address, his hand writing, his finger prints that would have been on the envelope or fake money order, and could have had a setup to catch him. But what happened, NOTHING! Its funny that they EASILY could have caught him and he was making FAKE money orders and has probably scammed TONS of people for numerous amounts of money, and NOTHING happened.

Anyway, sorry for my long post but my conclusion to this is, just because this scammer came out of California am I going to stop buying from that whole state? I've had a couple issues with people in that state so should I stop dealing with people over there? Thats ignorance. Andrew is a :censored: and just because you have had issues with a couple people in FL you shouldnt rule out everyone. I'm a good guy and you could ask several people so you'll be missing out on my nice and healthy animals and all the other GREAT animals that come from this state. Oh well, your the one that will be missing out.

Good luck again guys.
 
Iraqvet said:
In one of Andrews add's he said they dont allow snakes in the Army..I know he isnt in the Army,and doubt he is going in..It sounds like this dude already has a record..But,if it is only petty offenses,he could get a waiver..Now..Lets say he did sign up...He will get in VERY big trouble over fraud..The military dosnt play games.If he thinks he can just forget about it,and the Army will protect him,he will be sadly mistaken...But again,I highly doubt he is joining the military,as he wouldnt make it very far.No one likes a thief.I wouldnt doubt if this dude has a felony or two on him already...I am very hesitant to do businness out of floridia now...For anyone who runs a legit businness there,I am sorry...It just seems like there is alot of bad deals comming out of that state..
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James, not the whole state of Florida is bad, you know that. People just have to research more and more now. What is truly sad about this particular case is that Andrew seemed like he was headed to a GREAT place in this industry. I am thinking something went TERRIBLY off the wall in his life for this to have happened.

I look at all the transactions that he has had, and, a lot of them were diehard Andrew fans until now. But, in the end, something about him changed and he could no longer sell what he was offering. He could have just been flipping someone elses stock and this is how it started or something life-changing happened, we will never know.

Id be interested in hearing his side of everything, even though it wouldnt make a difference anymore. I feel for his customers and hope that they can extract enough from him so that he will never be able to do this to anyone again.

I thank all of you for doing the RIGHT thing here and making everyone else aware of this seller.
 
Yaz23 said:
I think thats a llittle overboard, to not buy anything from anyone in Florida because this stupid :censored: :censored: :censored: :censored: :censored: But thats your choice. I'm in FL and every single one of my buyers is more than happy with their purchase and I've sold tons of animals and made some trades as well. No issues what so ever.

Just to show you a situation that happened to me:
I was selling my collection of Cutco Knives (very expensive cooking knives), my whole collection was well worth over $5000. Anyway, I got a buyer. I talked to him ON THE PHONE several times, had his address, etc. I said pay by Paypal or Money Order. This guy sent a money order via Overnight delivery (for the agreed amount of $4900). It looked very real however I brought it to my bank to double check. They said it was a fake so I asked what I could do. They said bring it to the Police Station and fill out some paperwork. I went, did everything and the only thing they said was "Did you lose any money to him?" I said "No, but I would have if I fell for this" They said "Sorry we cant do anything about it then". I had EVERYTHING on this guy, his house address, phone number, where he worked, his email address, his hand writing, his finger prints that would have been on the envelope or fake money order, and could have had a setup to catch him. But what happened, NOTHING! Its funny that they EASILY could have caught him and he was making FAKE money orders and has probably scammed TONS of people for numerous amounts of money, and NOTHING happened.

Anyway, sorry for my long post but my conclusion to this is, just because this scammer came out of California am I going to stop buying from that whole state? I've had a couple issues with people in that state so should I stop dealing with people over there? Thats ignorance. Andrew is a :censored: and just because you have had issues with a couple people in FL you shouldnt rule out everyone. I'm a good guy and you could ask several people so you'll be missing out on my nice and healthy animals and all the other GREAT animals that come from this state. Oh well, your the one that will be missing out.

Good luck again guys.
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Well I think your response was alittle ill concieved..I said I would be HESITANT to do businness,not that I wouldnt...I dont think thats ignorant..It would just take alittle more convincing for me to buy..I am sure there are some great people down there..But there isnt any snakes I am interrested in that are Floridia specific.If your a good guy,thats great..I commend you for that..We need more in this industry :thumbsup:
 
Iraqvet said:
In one of Andrews add's he said they dont allow snakes in the Army..I know he isnt in the Army,and doubt he is going in..It sounds like this dude already has a record..But,if it is only petty offenses,he could get a waiver..Now..Lets say he did sign up...He will get in VERY big trouble over fraud..The military dosnt play games.If he thinks he can just forget about it,and the Army will protect him,he will be sadly mistaken...But again,I highly doubt he is joining the military,as he wouldnt make it very far.No one likes a thief.I wouldnt doubt if this dude has a felony or two on him already...I am very hesitant to do businness out of floridia now...For anyone who runs a legit businness there,I am sorry...It just seems like there is alot of bad deals comming out of that state..
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I have been dealing with Greg at The Retic Ranch, he is definatley someone in Florida that you can deal with and I know I personally plan on dealing with him again.
 
Here is my update, I haven't heard from Andrew since the 18th and the last message he sent me was this....

"I am getting your the tracking # for the check. I will have the # to you tomorrow. Sorry about that "

I have heard nothing else from him or about the situation since then. I don't know if I stated it before but he got my check, cashed it and then said that he was going to send me out a new one, too bad he could have just sent back the original because I do have the receipt for the MO....

I am not happy with this situation but I am glad that Mike started this post, I hope that is anyone get money back it is him, thats alot of money and I would not have been as patient or as nice as he has been if I was in his shoes.
 
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