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(Inguiry)Rare Pythons

Response From Rare Pythons

I, Christopher Casacci, the owner of Rarepythons.com just came across this thread after speaking with Garrek at CG and Joe from JC Reptiles. I am going to FULLY and CLEARLY explain any mistakes we have made, and to clear up all the BS associated with this thread.


I want to take the time to tackle each one of the many accusations and responses, which is now looking like over 18 pages worth, so bear with me for the time being as this will take several hours to cover. I'm starting with this thread and during the next 24 hours will go into detail about each issue that arose, but for the moment this evening I am a bit crunched on time.


1.) Our facility is in Niagara Falls, NY and I am the sole owner and proprietor.
I also run a hydroponic store, a gold refining business, and dabble in many other side business projects. Thus the "PTPAYCHECK" at www.ptpaycheck.com and "SUNLIGHTSHEDS" at www.sunlightsheds.com are all owned solely by myself. I am also into ball pythons in a big way and run www.rarepythons.com, which was recently launched.

2.) I will have over 1,500 eggs hatching this year as I'm sitting on 200 gravid females from Africa (REGULARS). They are NOT morphs, and it does not say on the site that they are. I apologize if this was misinterpreted by some. I do have some morphs and should have many more this year, but nothing upwards of that many clutches.

3.) My name is Christopher Casacci, and to my knowledge I have never heard of this 'Christopher Johnson' who was pictured in the thread. The picture of my hydroponic retail store shows me in the middle with the blue hat on (short guy), and the person in the white shirt is an ex-employee named Mike, although these days I believe he has been in jail for drug dealing for some time.

4.) Yes I both made and was caught for creating fake ID's many years back. It is a terrible crime that I committed and I've done more than atone for my actions. Yes it was me and I'm truly sorry for what I once did.
On a side note since everyone seems so interested in my personal life. I am currently married, have two children, a large home, and several thriving businesses (hoping to add python breeding to the mix).


Continuing this shortly....
 
Christopher, let me start by asking a few questions, if I may.

(1) Where did you come from? No one seems to ever have heard of you.

(2) Where did these morphs and normals come from?


(3)If you are expecting 1,500 eggs hatching this year and have 200 gravid females from Africa that you are working with (Not including the morphs), than this would be a rather large scale breeder, is there any big name breeders that can vouch for you?

I mean, I don't want to sound too skeptical here, but it is like you just fell out of the sky. Maybe you can answer these few questions to give everyone here a better understanding of how your new very large ball python business came about.
 
In 2008 We expect to hatch close to 2,500 ball python eggs. Whether you are looking for one python or several hundred, we will be happy to assist you.
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I will have over 1,500 eggs hatching this year as I'm sitting on 200 gravid females from Africa (REGULARS).
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Only 1000 babies difference, that's close. :shrug01:
 
Even though I bootleg DVDs, create phony id's, you can trust what I say is the truth because I'm honest about all the bad things I have ever done. I live a clean life now, I sell hydroponics cabinets that are infrared resistant. No need to worry about helicopters seeing a hot spot and busting you for growing in your closet. You see, that's the kind of guy I really am, I care about my fellow herb grower.

Who the hell grows lettuce and tomatoes in a double sized infrared resistant gym locker?

For christ sake.....
 
Chris, I have a question for you. Why do you have an unlisted business number for Rare Morphs? Any reputable business I can think of wants their number published, and a great many pay extra for yellow page advertising.
 
And who's the guy with the glasses?

Thanks,
 
And I do believe that it was high end hets you were planning on trading Tony. If your entire breeding colony consists of gravid import females, where did these hets arise from?
 
Apparently the questions were too tough, I see rarepythons logged off. Maybe he was busy consulting with his molecular biologists.
 
I must agree guys, it does smell a bit like fish. I also wonder why he edited and scrapped a large part of the information on his site. I mean if he is legit and has nothing to hide, then what other reason could there be for this?

But lets give him the few hours he requested to come up with all the answers to the unanswered questions we have for him. If he is legit as he claims it will be seen, if he is not that will be seen as well.
 
I have more time now to continue responding to the thread.


I ordered the African gravids from Adam at MillenniumMorphs, and recently went to pick over a 100 up from his home in NY.

The het pieds and albinos were from Joe Compel and Cypress Creek and I have full paperwork from both breeders, and both will vouch for me. I did not breed these, but they are in my collection. I also have a het pied from "Ace Reptiles" but I'm not sure as to how valid a dealer he is, so on a side note I'm holding his animals back.


Also, I am new to the industry and like all my businesses I don't start small. I don't see why this is such an issue.

I have 200 gravids and being a novice I was expecting to get 10-12 eggs a piece when I wrote 2,500 eggs, because I'm new to the industry and the large gravids I got at the White Plains show were dropping around 10 eggs each. Some of the females are smaller and some larger, so we'll see if it's 1,500 or 2,000 or more. I have some very large girls. Either way it was not an attempt at deception.

My business phone # is 716.984.6520, which goes directly to my cell. I just started the business less than 6 months ago, and I'm not currently in the yellow pages. I'm not sure what kind of phone # verification your looking for.

continuing more shortly...
 
Regarding selling CG balls:

I originally wrote Garrick with the following email and the responses are below. I was under the impression it was OK to resell his snakes in my shopping cart.

"
Original Message -----
From: PTPAYCHECK
To: [email protected]
Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2007 8:13 PM
Subject: Wholesale Inquiry


I am working on a website that would act as a 'middle-man' for reselling exotic ball pythons. My specialty has always been in advertising, marketing, and web design; and I would like to get involved in the ball python industry.

I have intention of doing a great deal of advertising on the web, and was wondering if I could re-sell the available pythons listed on your website? Of course all payments would come directly from us and we would only ask for drop shipping to customers when an order is placed. Do you have any wholesale pricing or discounted options? Ultimately our goal is to help boost your sales and make some profit in the process.

Thank you very much for your time and consideration.


PS: I assure you that the site will be very professional, your payments swift, and I will be in full compliance with whatever guidelines you see fit.


Thank You,

Christopher Casacci


716.984.6520"



----- Original Message -----
From: Garrick DeMeyer
To: PTPAYCHECK
Sent: Monday, December 31, 2007 5:59 PM
Subject: Re: Wholesale Inquiry


Christopher,

I think we may be able to set up some kind of arrangement. Right now, ball pythons are selling extremely well and I'm having no trouble moving them. However, I'm always looking for new outlets. I would be willing to do some kind of a percentage deal for you and drop shipping would be no problem as long as shipping is a little flexible. I'm in WI and this time of year, shipping is a little difficult because of the weather. I sometimes have to delay shipping for a few days or more. I'll be producing many ball pythons, mostly morphs, over the next few years. We hatched 777 of them in '07 and may hit 1000 this year. If you were interested in using some of my photos as examples for your customers, that would probably be fine. I have individual pics of many of the morphs, but not the hets. What kind of percentage would you be looking for to make the sales worthwhile?

Garrick


----- Original Message -----
From: PTPAYCHECK
To: [email protected]
Sent: Monday, December 31, 2007 6:18 PM
Subject: Re: Wholesale Inquiry


Garrick,


That would be wonderful, and I'm glad to hear things are keeping so busy. I would just need photos and quick descriptions of the ones currently for sale, whether from your site or otherwise. I'm looking for 15-20% markup in total, and shipping is very flexible.

The main thing would be the morphs, as hets are pretty similar I don't think that should be a problem.

thank you so much for your time and consideration.
----- Original Message -----
From: Garrick DeMeyer
To: PTPAYCHECK
Sent: Monday, December 31, 2007 5:59 PM
Subject: Re: Wholesale Inquiry


Christopher,

I think we may be able to set up some kind of arrangement. Right now, ball pythons are selling extremely well and I'm having no trouble moving them. However, I'm always looking for new outlets. I would be willing to do some kind of a percentage deal for you and drop shipping would be no problem as long as shipping is a little flexible. I'm in WI and this time of year, shipping is a little difficult because of the weather. I sometimes have to delay shipping for a few days or more. I'll be producing many ball pythons, mostly morphs, over the next few years. We hatched 777 of them in '07 and may hit 1000 this year. If you were interested in using some of my photos as examples for your customers, that would probably be fine. I have individual pics of many of the morphs, but not the hets. What kind of percentage would you be looking for to make the sales worthwhile?

Garrick



----- Original Message -----
From: Garrick DeMeyer
To: PTPAYCHECK
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 11:18 AM
Subject: Re: Wholesale Inquiry


Christopher,

I think that percentage is fair as long as I have enough animals available to sell to all my potential customers as well as supply you. I wouldn't want to sell too many at a 20% discount, then not have any to sell my customers. Balls are just selling so well right now that it doesn't pay for me to discount anything too much. We may have to hold off until the '08s are available to do anything like this. If you look at my site now, I just don't have that much available except for albinos, het albinos, and a few other odds and ends. I guess if you'd like to try selling some albinos right now, you could try it and see how it goes. I'm selling them at $800 each. You can see pics of every available ball on my site, except for the hets. Let me know what you'd like to do.

Garrick


----- Original Message -----
From: Garrick DeMeyer
To: PTPAYCHECK
Sent: Friday, January 04, 2008 3:20 PM
Subject: Re: Wholesale Inquiry


That would probably work. I update my site almost daily as animals sell or when more hatch so just check that from time to time to see what I have.

Thanks!

Garrick

----- Original Message -----
From: PTPAYCHECK
To: [email protected]
Sent: Friday, January 04, 2008 8:54 AM
Subject: Re: Wholesale Inquiry


Garrick,


Thank you for the reply, and I think what I may do is put a few snakes up for sale, and encourage potential customers to contact us with any requests, say for a "100% het albino female in the 400-600 range". Then I'll contact you and see if you have it available.


----- Original Message -----
From: Garrick DeMeyer
To: PTPAYCHECK
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 11:18 AM
Subject: Re: Wholesale Inquiry


Christopher,

I think that percentage is fair as long as I have enough animals available to sell to all my potential customers as well as supply you. I wouldn't want to sell too many at a 20% discount, then not have any to sell my customers. Balls are just selling so well right now that it doesn't pay for me to discount anything too much. We may have to hold off until the '08s are available to do anything like this. If you look at my site now, I just don't have that much available except for albinos, het albinos, and a few other odds and ends. I guess if you'd like to try selling some albinos right now, you could try it and see how it goes. I'm selling them at $800 each. You can see pics of every available ball on my site, except for the hets. Let me know what you'd like to do.

Garrick


"



Now after reading these email correspondence I was under the impression it was OK to resell his snakes and use his images. I received an email today asking me not to sell them and to take all the pictures down after he read this fauna thread. I apologized to him for the misunderstanding and have since taken everything down. You may all feel righteous in tearing into me for this, but I really thought it was OK.


I was not defrauding anyone, and the snakes would have come from CG. I simply was going to try to make a few bucks as a middle man.


continuing shortly....
 
I'm trying to respond to as many comments as possible. Please bear with me...


Walk-ins are ALWAYS welcome, and anyone in the Niagara Falls,NY area or willing to take the ride is more than welcome in my breeding facility. I will be posting pictures of our breeding racks, incubation chamber, etc. tomorrow.

That being said the childish commentary, threats, and asinine behavior is really sad. I grossly underestimated the maturity and credibility of many posting companies based on their responses.

I only wish that anyone making such accusations and false assumptions would have had taken the time to do the courtesy of a phone call prior to posting such comments.

On a side note anyone that wishes to call me at 716.984.5420 can feel free to at any time.

I apologize in advance if my website offended anyone. I spoke with JC and apologized for using several of his pics without his expressed permission. I used them for general background info about ball python morphs in the ball python section. I am going to strip all of the site and go bare bones with all new pics from animals in my collection and then there shouldn't be any issues.
 
here is a picture of the rack system I built last week to expand one of the breeding rooms. There are 224 bins (41qt sterilite bins), each with a 3" strip of heat tape on the back, all powered by DBS-1000 helix units. There are 3 helix units for each shelving system.



http://www.rarepythons.com/racks.jpg

http://www.rarepythons.com/racks2.jpg


My adult female albino and juv albino male

http://www.rarepythons.com/albinos.jpg



I'll take pics of the incubation room and many of the adults tomorrow if anyone would like to see?
 
Chris,

In your own words:

Also, I am new to the industry and like all my businesses I don't start small. I don't see why this is such an issue.
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Aside from the problems you had in the past, it seems you have "an eye" for business. If this is true we would have to assume that you did your homework and found out how much normal CH baby ball pythons sell for. You probably have also found out that is not for novices to work with wild caught females once they have laid their eggs.

Knowing that CH baby balls can be imported wholesale for let's say $4. Why in the world would you invest in 200 gravid females when at best they can bring you $20 worth of babies each? Those gravid females would have cost you what? Maybe $40 a piece? This is what's not adding up for some people (at least me). You probably spent $8,000 in females to obtain $4,000 in babies? Add on top of that the cost of feeding, housing, electricity, labor...and it seems you would've been better off sticking to the truffles... :rolleyes:

2.) I will have over 1,500 eggs hatching this year as I'm sitting on 200 gravid females from Africa (REGULARS). They are NOT morphs, and it does not say on the site that they are. I apologize if this was misinterpreted by some. I do have some morphs and should have many more this year, but nothing upwards of that many clutches.
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Well I think that about covers everything...I'm going to head to bed...if anyone else has any qualms or questions feel free.

On a side note I was recently booted off of kingsnake for selling my het pieds and het albinos purchased from JC and CC. I have no idea why as they are in my collection, I took the pics with my camera, and they were my only ad posts. The reason for getting booted was

"
The use of images or photographs or anything else that is the work product of
other individuals or businesses in your classified advertising without their
prior express written permission is strictly prohibited. Anyone found to be
violating trademark or copyright laws, is subject to the immediate
termination of this contract for breach, and their access to classified and
other account services will be immediately terminated."


None of that occurred...but apparently this nasty thread has pretty much drudged any reputation I could have had through the mud.
 
regular ball babies sell for $10-20 a piece wholesale. Please let me know who is selling them for $4 a piece. They cost more than that in just shipping to import (so I was told).

I may be a novice but I've read enough to feel comfortable trying to hatch out the babies and eventually sell off the adult females for say $50-100 a piece for big girls. Check out Kingsnake...lots of wholesale babies are going for around $10-20 a piece and large female regulars are over $60.
 
Chris

The website was set up with the express purpose of misleading the public into believing you were a major breeder of Ball Pythons. In essence, you are a newbie with a checkbook looking to cash in as quickly as possible. As such, you will find that selling hets is a dicey business without a rep to back it. Chris Johnson and a few others made sure of that. Rather than earn that rep, you have decided to manufacture one. Search this site with the name Joe Capone and you will see how well that mindset works.

Your past is also an issue. Since you already have two criminal convictions to your credit at the tender age of 25, it is amusing that your next business endeavor was to manufacture portable grow houses. I particularly like the models on your site that are disguised as speakers and PC's. I am sure a lot of people like to keep their tomato plants on the down low.

This is a testimonial on your own site

our service and support has been out of this world! Thanks to you I have more Salvia D. than I know what to do with. I thought my plants would grow fast, but HOLY SH*T! Good stuff guys, keep up the great work and kudos on a superior product. God knows I did my homework and shopped around quite a bit, and hell ya did I make the right choice
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Nice to see you consider someone using your product to grow a plant that has been labeled a controlled substance in several states to be a positive selling point.

Chris, you are the poster child for exactly what this industry does not need. Another fast buck artist looking to make a killing.
 
OK let's use your optimistic figures $10 per baby wholesale, that's on average $50 per female (at 5 babies average). How much did they cost? $40-50 each. Let's assume you have "0" mortality. You broke even on the females (and I'm not counting maintenance costs). You are going to sell all your big WC girls for $50 (always use the low figure, if it's more better) that adds up to $10,000. Now you have worked with 200 females (please add food, labor, electricity, investment in facilities, etc.) and you have enough money to buy 3 (three) baby pieds. Does it seem like a good investment?
 
rarepythons said:
regular ball babies sell for $10-20 a piece wholesale. Please let me know who is selling them for $4 a piece. They cost more than that in just shipping to import (so I was told).

I may be a novice but I've read enough to feel comfortable trying to hatch out the babies and eventually sell off the adult females for say $50-100 a piece for big girls. Check out Kingsnake...lots of wholesale babies are going for around $10-20 a piece and large female regulars are over $60.
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You MIGHT get $10 apiece for normal CBB babies, but not for CH....at least not until they are older. Look around when baby season starts, you can buy CH babies anywhere for $4-$7 each. I bought a couple of 10 lots last year, I think I paid $6 each for them. The ones you see going for $10-$20 apiece are last year's babies, that folks have already been feeding for 10 months.

And how do you figure that after feeding a ball python for 3 years (yes, it takes that long to get them to actual adult size) you will be making anything resembling a profit at $50-$100 apiece???
 
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