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INQUIRY - snowballsballpythons.com

Hey Matt I was doing some searching around for a friend of mine and came across this link. Im going to try to make this a short story here it goes. A guy (Tim B.) came into a little local pet store around where I live a couple of weks ago talking about ball pythons the owner (Jim)is real good friends with my buddy (Jared Carr). I guess this Tim was talking a great deal about what he had going on and Jim started to explain to him about Jareds nice set-up Tim wanted Jim to see if he could come over and take a few pics of Jareds snakes because he (Tim) was supposed to be a budding photographer and collected BP's himself. So Jim got in touch with Jared and set-up a meeting between them, Jared contacts me and asks me to be at his (Jareds) house when Tim came over to make sure this guy wasnt going to rob him or anything of that nature, so I said no problem. I go over to Jareds the next day and guess what type of vehicle is parked out front of his house a blue avalanche. I go inside and Jared introduces me to Tim (which at the time seemed like a nice enough guy) was telling us how hes a RN at the heart hospital here in Columbus Ohio. So Tim comes into Jareds house takes some pics of his snakes like his lessers, his lemon blast, pieds, blah blah blah. Then he talks Jared into doing a breeding loan but Jared wouldnt let the guy take one of his breeder males out of the house so Tim leaves his adult female 100% het VPI axanthic female at Jareds. This all happened about a week or so ago I get a call today from Jared saying that Tim is using the pics on his own site as his animals and now Jared is taking a real beating on some of the other forums. I want you to get in touch with me Matt my email address is [email protected] and I will give you my phone number from there. I have also emailed you about an animal or 2 before. Look forward to hearing from you.

:firedevil
 
Jared is taking a beating because Tim is using pictures of Jared's snakes as belonging to himself??? Yeah......that makes perfect sense. NOT.

How the heck does this guy keep getting away with his crap?????
 
Cat_72 said:
How the heck does this guy keep getting away with his crap?????
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Beats me. But something to look into might actually work this time around.

Matt I need to run something by you in private so pm me here or at TRR when you get a chance. :D
 
What's really too bad is it seems that Jared Carr was...oh how do we say this...'misled' by Timmy boy as to why he really wanted the pictures. Heck every forum that Tim posted those pictures on he misleads people into believing that they are his animals. "Wow Snowballs what a great collection you have. The lemon blast is really cool!"...."Thanks I really like them too!" The guy even has his own website name 'Snowballs' on the pictures of Jared's snakes! WTF?

I guess the appropriate thing would be something like..."They are incredible animals indeed but they don't belong to me, I just took pictures of someone elses collection. They actually belong to Jared Carr and I would like to thank him for inviting me into his facility to photograph his killer aimals."

BUT...we all know Bowles, that's not his style...to deceive for his own benifit is more like it.
 
After seeing Bill's post on this thread I took a look at "the other forum".

I called him out with a post last night and since, the stuff has hit the fan "over there".

When will people learn? The BOI is everywhere!
 
Well he's sitting right here reading this. He goes by Arboreals of the Rainforest here on fauna. That was his old website that was shut down awhile ago.

Tim...anything mature to say about misleading Jared and using pictures of his animals for your benifit and vendetta?
 
just received this email...... I've never heard of this person before............

[email protected] to me
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NOTE: This message was sent to you via the Kingsnake.com Classifieds. If you feel this message is fraudulent or abusive please forward it to [email protected].
NOTE: DO NOT flag this message as SPAM/JUNK as your ability to receive legitimate messages from Kingsnake.com Classifieds may be compromised
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We are starting a new Ball Python Forum with FREE classifieds. We have chosen to only send out invitations to breeders and dealers that we feel meet the only the highest professional and courteous image.

Please accept our invitation and join us on our forums even if you only join to use the free classifieds.

Our forums can be found at http://www.snowballsballpythons.com/snowballsforums.htm

Registration is simple and fast.

We look forward to seeing you there.
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Anne....did you read the rest of the thread on this guy?

Is recommend staying far, far away from there.....but that's JMO. ;)
 
We have chosen to only send out invitations to breeders and dealers that we feel meet the only the highest professional and courteous image.
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Translation: We have chosen to only send out invitations to breeders and dealers that we hope have never heard of us before, and don't yet know to stay away! o_O
 
Ghi Reptiles said:
Is that a violation of Kingsnakes TOS at all?
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It is a violation of their rules. Problem is when people get email through the contact system that is abusive they usually don't bother reporting it so of course nothing gets done about it. They tell you to Forward those types of email contacts to them with the headers intact either to the classified abuse person (for the classified forum email contacts) or the site coordinator (for the regular forum email contacts). A couple times I've forwarded stuff I felt was abusive and it appeared to be dealt with pretty quick.

Adrian
 
Kind of rude to go on a site that charges people for it's service and contact people that use that service and solicite your free service. I am sure he will find it wasn't the proper thing to do because I don't think that they play that game over there. I know he just got booted from a forum for doing the same thing so maybe Kingsnake will give him the boot too.
 
Matt,

You have taken this quite well so I assume you haven't clicked on the tab "My blog" in that web page:


My Blog


The importance of Karma
Thursday, June 1, 2006


The New York State Police have opened an investigation into Chris Johnson/Top Shelf Exotics.

The Investigator assigned to the case is Mark Brown.

Anyone who has not received what they paid for should contact Mr. Brown.

He can be contacted at the following:

Inv Mark A. Brown
New York State Police
[email protected] or
[email protected]

I urge anyone that was ripped off by Chris Johnson of Top Shelf Exotics to contact Mark Brown ASAP.

Snowballs

p.s.
Quote-O-Da-Day
"I have spoken to Chris in the past and he seemed like a good guy so what's the scoop?"
He stuck with a felonious queen and see what happened. Felons of a feather stick together.
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On a different issue, has anyone typed www.snowballpythons.com instead of snowballsballpythons.com very similar address but...

Regards.
 
Matt,

You have taken this quite well so I assume you haven't clicked on the tab "My blog" in that web page:
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I've been taking it well for 3 years now. I have clicked on his blog pages and about half of his entries are directed toward me in one way or another. The entry above has been changed three times with the cute little comments at the bottom. I guess he can't make up his mind which dumb comment he likes best.

The best thing about his karma comment is look what it has done to him...
 
3 years ago today...

For those of you that are new...do a search on Tim Bowles and see what you come up with. Here is a preview:
http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/forums/showthread.php?t=22036&highlight=arboreals+rainforest

Since the snake that he ripped me off with isn't pictured there anymore, here it is in all it's glory. This is what Tim Bowles charged me $2,500.00 'up front' for.
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Snowballs quality...3 years ago today he rips me off and the guy is still stalking me because he got busted...although not on so many forums anymore :rofl:
 
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