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Bad Guy Chad Johnson - Chadscresteds

As promised - here is the pic of me with Max with an electronic calendar (top left of phone screen).

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All pics Brandon posted are pics that I took. The pic with the box in it is a pic I took with flash - which is why it looks different.

I'm boarding a plane right now - but I'll be back on later tonight (possibly).

WHO ON EARTH gave Brandon negative rep points and WHY?!?

I told everyone they would end up doing irreparable damage to my reputation in the herp world - but nobody believed me. And now none of it can ever be deleted. Thanks everyone - hope you all feel good about yourselves. I've never taken anyone to the BOI and I never will for exactly this reason.
 
The damage has been done. When people search for andrews name it will still pull up this post. Its unfortunate because he really shouldn't have been thrown out here in the first place. No matter how sincere your apologies everything is set in stone. If i were to shoot and kill someone and apologize to their mother it doesn't change the fact i killed them. Thankfully this is not the case although the negative things that were said cant be taken back. The only true apology would be requesting the negative posts be removed.

Just to make things clear again... Andrew was never calling Sarah any names or even attempting to be rude to her in any way, she played no part in this and he was not in anyway disrespecting her.

It appears to me like some people just have nothing better to do than sit at home and play tough guy over the internet and try and destroy people they have never done business withs reputations. After everything negative said here on this post about andrew it certainly seems as if his rep will take a hit. Its a shame because it was a PM to Andrew G not sarah and it was not to be seen by anyone else. We all have said things about others that would make us look way worse than we are if they were made public.

In closing id like everyone to direct their eyes down... It seem like we've got a few of "these" here... :)


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I hope you all have a happy turkey day and everyone can move on!

I know ill be enjoying some bacon green beans tomorrow. You all have safe travels and a solid weekend. Good night.
 
Ed, it was funny admit it, it's a funny graphic. If your going to take that as a shot at any one person your mistaken. It's kinda a shot at every major poster in this thread. Trying to add some comedic relief, although understand that I'm not really intimidated by anyone over the Internet so i won't take that as a threat of any kind. I'll look at is as a friendly reminder. Since we're all adults here I'm sure that's all it was. Fighting over the Internet is pointless. happy thanksgiving to you all and to all a good night!
 
aschnell said:
As promised - here is the pic of me with Max with an electronic calendar (top left of phone screen).

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All pics Brandon posted are pics that I took. The pic with the box in it is a pic I took with flash - which is why it looks different.

I'm boarding a plane right now - but I'll be back on later tonight (possibly).

WHO ON EARTH gave Brandon negative rep points and WHY?!?

I told everyone they would end up doing irreparable damage to my reputation in the herp world - but nobody believed me. And now none of it can ever be deleted. Thanks everyone - hope you all feel good about yourselves. I've never taken anyone to the BOI and I never will for exactly this reason.
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Andrew-those of us who know your TRUE reputation will look at this whole episode as fluke, and you'll still have our business...not that I've ever bought from you, but I know you breed incredible geckos, and have their best interest at heart.

Have faith in the people who know you and your stock.

You will get past this.
 
Apparently Chad has now changed all the animals on his Ggwherps iHerp account to "private" so they don't show up.

Again, I saved all the pictures I've found of his animals so anyone can feel free to PM me if they want to compare against an animal they may run across for sale, and I'll email the pics.

Andrew- is Six still in his collection, or did you get her returned with Max?
 
Has anyone else made a recent purchase from Chad Johnson and had successful outcome besides Andrew receiving Max back? Just trying to guage how it is he decides who he can and can't screw over...or if he's truly turned over a new leaf.

P.S. I'm going to breed an LAC gecko to an ASchnell gecko so the world is at peace once again. I'd name the entire line "conflict cresteds".

Jon Rosario
 
SamanthaJane13 said:
Andrew-those of us who know your TRUE reputation will look at this whole episode as fluke, and you'll still have our business...not that I've ever bought from you, but I know you breed incredible geckos, and have their best interest at heart.

Have faith in the people who know you and your stock.

You will get past this.
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Agreed! I've done business with Andrew, however, and he is a stand up guy:thumbsup:
 
lauraleellbp said:
Apparently Chad has now changed all the animals on his Ggwherps iHerp account to "private" so they don't show up.

Again, I saved all the pictures I've found of his animals so anyone can feel free to PM me if they want to compare against an animal they may run across for sale, and I'll email the pics.

Andrew- is Six still in his collection, or did you get her returned with Max?
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I asked Chad to take down all his pics because everything was just getting too confusing with "who owned what" - especially with him having a lot of pictures that I or other people took mixed in with pictures that he took. I also told him he won't be able to sell geckos on the forums until he gets his rep back up via sales at shows, etc, so having public pics online probably wasn't really going to benefit him anyway. I still own Six - but I did sell him a bunch of Max x Six offspring this year and probably will next year too. Like I said - he's been a great customer / seller as far as his interactions with me are concerned. Hopefully he'll keep it up in the future.

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oo3menace said:
P.S. I'm going to breed an LAC gecko to an ASchnell gecko so the world is at peace once again. I'd name the entire line "conflict cresteds".

Jon Rosario
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Jon - I think that's a wonderful idea :) Personally - out of the cresteds the Gilpins currently have listed - the three out of the 10 that already sold are the ones that I would have recommended getting. But hey - maybe it was you who bought them!
 
Oh for the love of.... how many times is this guy going to resurface? He's even using the SAME email address that caused so many problems before!
 
We were actually contacted by Chad about a week ago regarding some geckos we had for sale. He paid a deposit quickly, and paid off the remaining amount within a few days. As far as selling to him, everything went very smoothly without a hitch. Quick payments, and good communication etc.
Haven't heard anything about how buying experiences from him have been recently, maybe he's becoming more conscience about his reputation?
 
Lacherps said:
We were actually contacted by Chad about a week ago regarding some geckos we had for sale. He paid a deposit quickly, and paid off the remaining amount within a few days. As far as selling to him, everything went very smoothly without a hitch. Quick payments, and good communication etc.
Haven't heard anything about how buying experiences from him have been recently, maybe he's becoming more conscience about his reputation?
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Why on earth would you sell to such a blatant known scammer? So he can use those animals to try and defraud more people? People never cease to amaze me.....and you definitely get a chance to see what peoples' priorities *REALLY* are when someone waves money at them.
 
DavidBeard said:
Why on earth would you sell to such a blatant known scammer? So he can use those animals to try and defraud more people? People never cease to amaze me.....and you definitely get a chance to see what peoples' priorities *REALLY* are when someone waves money at them.
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Yep, that pretty much sums it up.
Obviously you don't know us.


In case you *REALLY* wanted to know, we had all payments and shipping all set up before we even realized we had sold to the same " Chad Johnson"
You know.... If I receive an inquiry on an animal, receive a deposit, great communication, and full payment within a week from a " Michael Jordan" I'll just go ahead and assume I'm selling geckos to the world famous basketball player.

I felt it would be the honest and outright thing to do to share that we had recently had a positive transaction with Chad despite all of the negativity posted here ( some of which I have contributed to )

Sometimes people change. We won't know if Chad has turned things around until we give him a chance, I suppose it may come around to bite me in the ass in the future, but only time will tell :shrug01:
 
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