"Steve, since you have no use for my opinion and have such a low opinion of me, you can stop coming to me with questions on care and pricing and availabilty of animals. It seems funny if you had a low opinion of my knowledge that you seek it so often. "
I do respect your knowledge of reptiles, and of the business. It is your condescending attitude and your aire of superiority that have caused me to make it a point NOT make any inquiries about the care and pricing and availability of animals. The last time I spoke with you regarding availability and pricing of reptiles was last winter at Lee's prior to the mass importation of the baby ball pythons. You were telling me how you import over 5000 per year and have never lost a single one, and how only a handful of them ever had problems feeding from day one for you. I was considering buying from you but then I saw my own pair locked up and decided to wait for my own to hatch. I don't recall since then ever asking your advice on the care of anything, although, prior to that I probably did discuss care issues with you. But then again, I suppose every thread is a desperate plea from one of us nobodys seeking the knowledege and wisdom of the great Evan Stahl, evan if we don't come right out and beg for it.
the last time I spoke personally with you on any subject was again last year at Lee's when the thread about the Borneo bat eaters was in full swing. You were badmouthing someone on here and when I jokingly asked you at the swap if you had any borneo bat eaters you went of on him again. To be honest, thats when my opinion about you changed. Since then, I have only been to Lees maybe 4 times, and I have always made it a point not to talk to you (other than a possible "hi, how's it goin" but again, isn't that just another situation where I am begging you to impart your wisdom on me and enlighten me with all the deatils of how great you are and everything you have accomplished in your business.) I usually don't even look at your table. I have never responded to any of your ads on this site or KS regarding animals for sale. You simply don't have anything I am interested in. Just a few weeks ago you did make a post in which you offered to sell me some of your leucistic texas rat snakes in a thread I started regarding another advertiser using the term "bug eyed"
"It seems funny if you had a low opinion of my knowledge that you seek it so often. "
last summer, around the time when Lee's was busted, in another thread where you were bragging about all the shows you did in all the different states, I did make an inquiry regarding permits since you obviously know more than anyone else on the planet about such things. That was one post maybe two. You again told me that you have never had any problems obtaining any permits because you know how to do things the right way.
I made a couple of comments in your thread about what people are looking for in a herp show. I said I respected your desire to make improvements on your show, and I do. I told you that I did not think your admission prices were out of line, and I don't. I did ask what 2 zoos you were refering to when you said that of the last dozen or so only 2 had decent reptile selections. I guess you are considering that comming to you for your expertise and knowledge of the business. Of course you couldn't help but self promote yourself in that thread either saying how once the owner of reptile gardens found out who you were he said he would have let you in for free.
"You will just be one more person that does not need to take my time away from my collection."
Or from ripping on other people or pumping yourself up with so much self praise.
"I don't criticize you because I thought you were a good guy."
If I agree with you I am a good guy, if I don't I should be critiscized
"Now I will because you would jump on a sad little bandwagon with Seamus, who jumps on every thread where he has nothing to contribute except to insult me or somebody else."
If you read the thread, I posted here before Seamus did How does that constitute my jumping on his bandwagon. Besides you were the first one to come on this thread with nothing to contribute, and start with the insults. And I am pretty sure I have never called anyone stupid on this forum as you have many times.
To get this straight. I agree with you. You do know more about this business than I do. There are many people who know more about this business than I do and I am not afraid or ashamed to admit that. However, you apparently are. I respect the fact that you have built a nice business for yourself. I have also. I think you have high quaility animals but quite frankly I really don't care about your collection of honduran morphs. I am not into that sort of stuff so they don't impress me. I do think you have a lot to offer people in this business, but what I don't like about you is the way you talk down to everyone who doesn't agree with every word you say or worship the ground you walk on. At one time I would have happily considered doing business with you, I have in fact, but now, I just couldn't bring myself to do it.
I appologize to everyone else on this site for my long post. I made a statement that I did not think Evan's personal feelings about what he heard other people say about Terry Lilly belonged on this site in a post about a deal between terry and a third party. I suggested that if He had a problem with Terry he bring it up in a thrad of his own. Upon reading that post he took it upon himself to insult me like he has done many times to many others. I have spent a good deal of time on this post but to be totally hones I do not think it belongs here. Since I am defending myself however I will post it.
Oh yeah, and one more thing. You will be back to read them, you may not repond but I know you will read them.
Steve Schindler
