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Casey Ritch - Norman, OK is a thief and scammer

Wooot@! I just got her and took pics. I am very relieved this is over. She was very cold, but got here. Now that I have her, she is going to be renamed "lucky". From this point she will never be traded or sold...period. :NoNo: ;) :D Thanks to Casey for finally getting this set right. Thanks to you all for your support. She is now quarantined in her old home.
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I am glad this all worked out. I am always weary of trades. Sometimes you end up with what you want and soemtimes you end up with a rock. Saw that the industry has to be this way. Makes face to face trades so much easier. She is a great looking snake though.
 
I have a nice piece of granite that would make a great par with that beauty you recieved.. Lets talk.... No seriously im not making light of the inexcusable actions here... I am happy you recieved "lucky" back.. Hopefully this type of deciet will not happen again.. Good luck with "Lucky" and keep in touch John
 
I'm glad you got your ball python back. And I'm really glad you put it in quarantine immediately. I really think you have the BOI to thank for the recovery.
 
Glad to see that snake come back alive. John, how was the return packing? You mentioned the snake coming in cold, did Casey ship it like he shipped the rock or was the box insulated?
 
shytownjb said:
Wooot@! I just got her and took pics. I am very relieved this is over. She was very cold, but got here. Now that I have her, she is going to be renamed "lucky". From this point she will never be traded or sold...period.
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Are you sure? I have access to some excellent line locality sandstone ...
 
She was in the insulated box I sent her in. It was 38 here though and he couldn't find any heat for her...luckily she made it here fine. I do realize that the BOI was a big help in this. Thanks to all of you..again! :thumbsup: :yesnod:
 
John my friend. You have had a string of bad dealings. I am not sure why this sort of crap happens to the nicest people. I would still proceed with calling DHL and informing the local authorities about this crook.......Glad everything worked out.
 
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I know man! Believe me...I am going to be MUCH more selective in my dealings. If there is one thing that even hints of being wrong, no deal. It's weird, cause up until the last few purchases, I had had nothing but good experiences with people. Guess I just let me guard down.

BTW, those cribos are both taking f/t fuzzies now! No scenting for the female!!! They are getting fatter..I'll send pics.
 
I have been carrying on a phone correspondence with John since this started and your right he is a hell of a nice guy and thats who the bad things usually happpen to. But I told him he has to be one of the luckiest people I know, in the 6 years or so that I have been dealing in reptiles I have NEVER heard of someone getting their animal back myself included. But John Im happy for you and will definatley be out to see her.


Damian Macioce :firedevil
 
what about the rock? will you sell the rock?
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You should probably return the rock to his owner. In this case you could probably go USPS ground, don't forget the Styrofoam and heat packs though...;) Seriously now, I'm glad everything worked fine.

Good luck with lucky! :)
 
If you do return the rock be sure to get a signature verification so we know the right person recieved it.

It would be a real bummer to have such a sweet rock fall into the wrong hands after all the abuse it's already been through.
 
I guess I dodged a bullet. He posted a male 05 pastel on another board and I emailed to see if he was interested in a trade. He first told me that he used to live in my town in NC and then told me he worked for Bob Clark. I have a pair of 06 f3 salmons and he was going to send me the male pastel and an adult female boa het for albino. She didn't have papers and belonged to another person but he said he knew for sure she was a het having seen her born. I decided to email Bob Clark for a reference and he wrote back "never heard the name before. Better be careful Steve". When Casey wrote me back to see if we still had a deal I sent him a copy of the email and asked him if he could explain it. I never heard from him again. I erased all of the emails but you can allways call or write Bob to verify. Just thought it might help. Always check references.

On another note and I'm sorry for getting off track. My name is Steve Ori. My company is A Forgotten Realm Exotics which I've recently shortened to AFR Exotics. I went out of business a few years ago due to illness and a crooked cop named Nigel Kohring (I understand he has since been fired from the Woodfin, NC police dept). I had given my entire collection and access to my email to him, because of illness, till I could take care of them myself. I had just listed a clutch of striped pastels on Kingsnake with individual pics and prices. I found out later he sold and traded them as Jungles and told me they all died. He also sold the vast majority of my collection and told me the same about them. I'm trying to get started again with the help of Pete Kahl, Brian Sharp, Ed Lilley, Jeff Gray, Brandon Weik and and a few of my not so well known friends. Ed Lilley sent me a pair of f3 salmons and a female 66% het for albino to sell or trade if anyone wants them. I also have an adult male salmon poss het for albino sent to my by Brandon Weik of Summit reptiles. I need an adult female het for albino to prove him out. I'm not opposed to a breeding loan. I don't want to make this sound like I'm begging, LOL. I understand that Nigel Kohring, using my name, screwed quite a few people around. There was a guy in Maine that I sold a peach phase boa female adult to and a fellow that sent me 100.00 deposit on my clutch of pastel stripes. I actually got their money before I gave all my animals to Nigel. This was around 2002 I believe. He was informed and told to take care of them. I understand that you are not happy. Fellows I don't know who you are so if you could get in touch with me I'll do my best to get you taken care of. Also, anyone else that got screwed in my name please contact me. It might be awhile before I can help anyone out but I need to know who you are and what happened to get this started. As soon as I can afford it I'm going to start a webpage that will explain all of this for people who don't visit this board. Anyone who Nigel screwed using his own name please contact me also as myself and others are trying to put something legal together to put an end to his madness. By the way, I know quite a few police officers who are snake breeders also and are great guys. Please don't use this as a means to bash police officers.
If anyone can give me advice as to how to reach as many of Nigel's possible victims I would be glad for the advice.
Also, it came to my attention that Nigel. using my email. got really nasty with a few people here at BOI. This would have been back in 02 or 03 I believe. All I can do is offer my apology for his actions as it was my lack of ability to judge character that caused this whole thing in the first place. To my defence I wasn't in a place to be picky and afterall he was a police officer.
Thank you for your patience in reading this extremely long post.

Sincerely,
Steve Ori
AFR Exotics
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Your best bet may be to post a whole new thread about yourself in the BOI, that way people who don't read this thread but know your name will respond. Good luck!
 
wow what a story,im pretty new here so i just finished reading this.im from maine an ppl arnt like that up here.were pretty trust worthy ppl.thanks 4 posting this an tellin how some jerks really r.glad u got your snake back though
 
Oy. I just read through that without checking the dates..

No offense yankees789 but your kinda spamming the threads man.

Especially all your posts trying to trade your bearded dragon. Nothing wrong with wanting a trade but a good portion of the threads your posting on say NO TRADES very clearly and I've seen you post 4 times in 10 minutes offering your dragon. Although I am glad to see your not posting all caps anymore.

Mark
 
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