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Have been viewing the ads for Exotic Pets...has a 914 area code, so they/he is in Westchester Cty. NY.
Has lots of good stuff, good prices.
Has my interest, but does anyone know this person/ seller?
I've been burned before with Internet herp sales, and I wont be making that mistake again anytime soon
If anyone has any info, please share.
Thanks
 
Ken Foose-Exotic Pets

There is an "Exotic Pets" located and operated in Las Vegas Nevada by a stand up gentleman named Ken Foose. His ads are typically ran on Kingsnake.

The only reason I post this is NOT to degrade the "Exotic Pets" you mention but to make everyone aware of the identical name so the two aren't confused on good guy/bad guy posts.

As a chance to give Ken Foose credit for his hard work, you will not find a person more willing to help you problem solve or locate animals. His dedication to animal superiority and customer service far exceeds anyones expectations.

Good luck on your transactions with the other "Exotic Pets", if inquiries seem uneffective due to lack of or mixed messages with Kens site I would suggest asking the companys owner for a list of reputable references you can check with. If you haven't heard of their references, do a search on them and/or ask those people for references. I realize this may seem excessive but a little typing may save you several hundred or several thousand dollars.
 
Actually i had a bad experience w/exotic pets from Las Vegas. We had finalized a trade for a pair of gargoyles for a pair of hognose snakes and when i called back a few days later to get shipping info he had sold the female out from under me. _Ben Hoksch
 
I can honestly see that mistake happening, reason being Ken runs a nice sized shop, travels a bit and has a half dozen or so employees. It's very possible a tank was cleaned and the sold label moved ect ect......things slip thru the cracks when multiple people are involved. Did he make it right with you would be my number one question?
 
Ken's phone numbers in Vegas all start with the 702 area code, so it's certainly not him... Plus I believe his KS handle is ExoticPetsLV or Exotic Pets Las Vegas... he's been around long enough to reccognize a fairly common name and makes certain to distinguish himself in the national market (Locally is a different story, as he's had people trying to steal some of his decade plus success by snatching his name).

I've opened this thread a few times myself thinking it might be about the shop in Vegas and ready to start stacking on the praise for the business, the animals and the ethics but refrained until someone else brought it up. While it's not the direction the original poster wanted the thread to go and I do sincerely hope he can get the information he needs, someone running a search might check only one or two threads and I wouldn't want Ken to miss out.

I really don't know the specifics of the trade situation, but I think it's always important for people to understand who they are dealing with in any given situation. Ken's business is primarily a retail operation, the internet sales are a tiny supplemental fraction of what he sells- basically it's possible for someone to sell an animal in the shop between the time Ken last saw it and the time he (or Kim) respond to an email. I hung around his shop fairly frequently when I was briefly living in Vegas, watched the way he and his staff conduct business... There's no way he would ethically back out of a confirmed deal and sell an animal from under someone IF it REALLY was confirmed AND everything was happening as it should (communication or shipping wise) with any sort of intention to jerk someone around... It just means his sales staff was hard at work and there was an unfortunate quirk of timing.
 
Not really, there was nothing he could do about it. he didn't have any other females so i wasn't interested in a lone male when i already had one.
 
Back to the original thread.Exotis pets is the latest incarnation of my favorite dirtbag,Prem Avanti.I admin Turtletimes,and no one has given us more grief over junk,late,wrong,dead animals.I banned at least 10 ip's on him,but he just seems to come back in a different flavor.

STAY AWAY

Just a little friendly advise:D

Andy Sury aka..The TurtlePimp
 
Hey Andy.......good heads up. If anyone searches under Prem Advani you can see just one of the problems i've had with him.......Owes me big time for open accounts!!!!!!!!!!!! I got one shipment from him......rest were sold to him. Not one time did it go right. Any news on where I can (nail) get ahold of him!!!??? (If this guy were shipping carbon 14 it would break down before he could get it to you!!) Sorry if if don't get that one......isotopes...LOL's!!
 
Ben, I'm sorry for the mixup on the gecko/hog nose trade. I do have a very nice pair of hognose, the same old male, and a very nice new female, if you are still interested in swapping. Sorry it took so long to respond, I was out of town, death in the family. It is not my intent to sell anything out from under anyone, but a lot of stuff comes and goes around my place pretty fast sometimes, and mix ups happen.

I don't know exactly who the other "Exotic Pets" is, but I do know that there seems to be at least one Exotic Pets in every state now days. I know there are two of them right here in Vegas lol. I have heard some bad things about the one that has been posted about on this thread, and it does bother me that they seem to have such a bad reputation, and the sometimes mixing up of our businesses.

Just for the passing of information, the other "Exotic Pets" (actually called Exotic Petstop) here in town has copied my tv commercials, my phone book ad, my phone #, and has done just about everything they can to confuse the public between the two of us. And to really top it off, they have taken on a new partner, name of Tim Rainwater! Will wonders ever cease? Good luck to us all, take care
 
Ken,for the record,they are talking about Prem Avani.
When Exotic Pets,Las Vegas comes up on our little BOI's,you get the thumbs up.

When Exotic Pets,AKA Alex,AKA Prem,AKA Exotic Reptiles comes up,it gets ugly,really ugly.

Again,I'm a turtle guy,so I'm only talking Turtle type forums.

P.S.,I love the signature:D I turn my wife into a newt often,and she does get better.She IS the witch:firedevil
 
Thanks for the comeback. I did do some business with Prem Advani when he was going by the name Exotic Reptiles.
I did so because he was close by in NY.
I can honestly say, I never experienced a bad deal with him, other than one turtle, and Alli Snapper, being well under the 4 inches he advertised. Usually still having the yolk attached is under 4inches.
Other than that, all turtles were received the next day, or the day I was told they would. And all were received alive.
I'm not defending him, just letting you all know my experience with him.
In the past year I have made enough contacts to know who I can buy from locally.
He is not one of them.
 
Prem Advani has been illegally selling Eastern box turtles out of his state for a few years now. He offers adults for sale, as well as hatchlings. He has been warned many times about the illegality of his actions, but he continues to do it anyways.

Andy--thankyou for saying what you did. I totally agree 100%. Not only is Prem Advani (He also goes by Alex and Alido now) a scoundrel, I am done and through with Turtle Times for their tolerance of him and others like him. A while back, Prem Advani even posted a "Want" ad on turtle times with a heading "Attention Florida collectors: Florida box turtles wanted!"

I would never do business with him.
~Mike
 
I've personally had dealings with the exotic reptiles/pets in NY and my experience, it was not a good one. I ordered a Miss. map turtle, it arrived in nothing more than a box, there was no protection at all for the turtle. It was dead. I wrote an e-mail to them letting them know that the turtle had arrived dead. All I got were excuses. In the ad it stated they had a live-arrival guarantee. All I got was a run around. They said they would refund my money, never received a refund. It was a bad experience all around. Just thought I let you know my thoughts.
 
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