Fred, thanks for clearing that up. What about the screen name (that's what is really amusing) ? I don't have any issues with anyone on this thread, although I was considering a purchase off kingsnake until I figured out who "DTS herps" was. I'm sure this thread will end up being amusing for another day or two.
Mr Hill, when I joined this site, I did it with the sole intention of TRYING to get Dan to settle down, slow down, stop being so offensive in his posts, and focusing on one single question at a time, and answering that one single issue with believible accuracy. I concede that I failed at my attempt. He appears to not be able to do that. He just makes up excusses about not reading the question correctly (because he is up at 3:AM packing orders, or my questions are too long and complex for his understanding) and he just continues to rant about how Juan did not return snakes and how a bogus report was filed etc. When someone tries to redirect him to the question that shows his inconsistancy he just wants to snow-bling the readers by reverting back to the same old issues of animals not being returned etc., and we are all supposed to be to stupid to realize what he is doing. That is called evading the question at hand. So anyway, when I joined, I made up that screen name because it was the first thing that came to mind after reading all his ramblings.
I don't know Dan personally, so I don't think that as a person Dan sucks, but I feel that as a business man he does. Thank God he is self employed, because he would be fired within his first day working for anyone else, with customer service and communication skills (or lack of) like his.
I only have a couple ratsnakes, so I am not on the same level as you guys as far as knowledge of the reptile business. But i can assure you that I would NEVER do any business with anyone who acts like he does on this forum. It would be a calculated risk that I would not be willing to take. There are far too many reputable dealers out there who act professionally when things go wrong. I do know (from the dealer that directed me to this site) that Dan has a reputation of bad business followed by bad customer service. I am sure he has a lot of good sales under his belt, but just one poorly handled transaction, such as this one, can almost ruin the reputation of a business man with a lot of good transactions. To say that someone read all this stuff and jumped on the phone to buy snakes from Dan is too outrageous even for a kid to believe.
Again, I don't personally know Dan, but as a business man he sucks. Therefore my screen name (not that it matters, because I only signed up to address this thread.)
Fred