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Bad Guy Deans Reptiles

Just did a little more digging, looked at the facebook profile for James Bayles... I saw his picture and he also goes by Chris Hobgood ([email protected])

I bought a 1.0 Motley from him, then he ended up buying the animal back about 5 months later.
 
Well Jayson if you would like to come by feel free I will be here. Second it was one check not checks and last I was aware the debt was cleared as it was sent to the person via USPS. The craigslist issues where one person and if you would have actually read then you would have understood how stupid they where. Not one person had the balls to actually post their real name mainly because it was one person who was mad because I turned down an offer. I have steered clear of people in case you haven't noticed but obviously from this post you haven't noticed. Feel free to attack me and tell everyone how bad of a guy I am but you have one of my animals currently at your house. You got it last August or around then. I know who you are. People can and will continue to have their opinion of me but anymore I personaly just don't care. There are way bigger fish to fry then me but I can take the heat. Last reptile show I went there where snakes covered in mites and not one person said anything about it. Sad really. But thanks for your concern Jayson.
 
Well Jayson if you would like to come by feel free I will be here. Second it was one check not checks and last I was aware the debt was cleared as it was sent to the person via USPS. The craigslist issues where one person and if you would have actually read then you would have understood how stupid they where. Not one person had the balls to actually post their real name mainly because it was one person who was mad because I turned down an offer. I have steered clear of people in case you haven't noticed but obviously from this post you haven't noticed. Feel free to attack me and tell everyone how bad of a guy I am but you have one of my animals currently at your house. You got it last August or around then. I know who you are. People can and will continue to have their opinion of me but anymore I personaly just don't care. There are way bigger fish to fry then me but I can take the heat. Last reptile show I went there where snakes covered in mites and not one person said anything about it. Sad really. But thanks for your concern Jayson.
 
So are you denying that you emailed me under the name Chris Hobgood? I have a picture of you and your wife, yea I am now coming to realize that it was your wife who traded me that ATB for my Pastel Jungle boa, then a month later you were trying to sell my boa on craigslist, I contacted you and guess what, you were using another email address and guess what man, I have your phone number too!!! People arent dumb man, I wouldnt have a bad opinion of you if you didnt use different names and also include your wife in your animal flipping. I really wanted that boa back, but you didnt want me to know it was you, since you sent your wife to give me the ATB... I was good enough to sell you your motley back and I took a loss on that, the least you could have done is let me get my Pastel Jungle back.
 
You and your wife, thats straight off the Facebook page James Bayles of Painesville, also you have an album dedicated to all your reptiles.
 

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Your a joke, you got over on me and thats my fault, but best believe that from here on out I will tell everyone I can about you and make sure they know what you look like. OR you can do an even trade, the pastel jungle you got off me for the ATB I got off you.
 
You can't hurt me any worse than what has already been done to me. Let me help you. JAMES BALES IS NO GOOD STAY AWAY FROM HIM AND ANYONE WHO MIGHT BE ASSOCIATED WITH HIM!!!!!! My rep is gone so I have nothing more to lose. After my house was broken into pretty much put an end to me. I will let people know how bad I am for you to help save you some time.
 
I bet if someone were to post your picture on Craigslist you wouldnt be able to hide behind different names and emails... They would know as soon as they saw you that you were a flipper/scammer.
 
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JAMES BALES IS NO GOOD STAY AWAY FROM HIM AND ANYONE WHO MIGHT BE ASSOCIATED WITH HIM!!!!!! My rep is gone so I have nothing more to lose.
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Thats what happens when you scam people dude! People who do things the right way dont get their rep destroyed...

Things happen for a reason, people might respect you more if you came clean and admitted you have been using different names and emails to get animals, at least I would.
 
I do still have friends. I do still have a few people who I work with but I don't personaly email people but from my own email. I have dealt with other people's deals. The issue is you started something again because your mad over the atb deal I personally didn't have a deal with. There is a guy in Eastlake that has that boa. I didn't give it to him. I don't even post or reply on CL because people call me a scammer even though I gave good animals too. Scammer I am not flipper I might be but so are a lot of other people even if they don't want to admit it. It is okay for others but not me. I am cool with that. I have what I have left and that is all I can do. I can't even buy animals if I wanted to so I have no reason to hide or cheat anyone. If you had my number why did you not call me about the atb? Mainly because I don't have the boa. Feel free to do what you need to do but like I said everyone knows James Bayles, Chris Hobgood, John Carnie, and Keith Belcher are the bad guys of Lake County. I don't mind putting it out there because I already know I have no friends left anywhere in the reptile world and for the most part I haven't really done anything horribly wrong. People on CL can post 20 posts and make it look like different people. I had one major deal go bad and actually that girl turned out worse then me if you can believe that but for the most part I have been good to all. Did I flip animals, yes I did just like every vendor at a reptile show but the animals came from people and I always paid cash or gave a good trade. I was always fair.
 
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There were alot of angry people posting things about James Bayles on craigslist the other day. Also when I went to the reptile expo last month they had signs up warning people of James Bayles and that he has been writing bad checks for animals. I dont have any personal experience with him, but he does live very close to me.
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What unnamed people, angry or not, are saying doesn't belong here. I'm somewhat inclined to say the same about the signs, as that is just more anonymous third party information.
 
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