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Inquiry - who is CWM?

When I asked him for his full name and where he was located, he asked me my I wanted to know?
I told him I didn't do business with anonymous sources over the internet.
Just trying to do my due diligence, that's all.
The guy's first name is Chris. He may be in Wisconsin.
jsc
 
I've had people refuse to give me their names and locations - if somebody won't respond directly to those questions, move on.
 
Ordered from him last year.Seems to be a real private person.Animal came as advertised(small male Red ackie) and has done well.Price was fair and no problems.He was responsive to my questions regarding the ackie,and shipped when he said he would.All went well.
 
I appreciate the info, Dennis, and I understand privacy and low profile...but I still won't do business with somebody that won't give me his name when asked.
 
Back about a year ago, maybe late 2006, there was a long thread here about a person who went by the user names of Herp Expert (the user here who the thread was about), Herpetology 101 and Terd Ferguson.

That individual had multiple ads at Reptile Auctions, KS, here and perhaps elsewhere that I can't recall. I also believed he was advertising as user "Erd" at Reptile Auctions.

I did a lot of digging back then, comparing photos, text and similarities of the various ads at the various sites by these different identities and I came to the conclusion that the individual was Chris Mitchell. I posted quite a bit on that thread and I recall in one of my last posts, I indicated I thought I had figured it out. I recall my cryptic post with an intentional typo where I said something like "I believe he is who he would ceem to be." (The c and the m were the clues). I didn't want to post his name in case I was wrong, and because he had no bad guy posts here or elsewhere. I'm not sure if anyone at that time figured out or knew who I was referring to.

I realize that this has no bearing on or relevency to his business practices, the quality of his stock or any satisfied customer base he has established, as I don't ever recall seeing any bad guy posts about Chris or Endless Exotics here or anywhere else. It's only meant to perhaps fill in some gaps.

~ Laura Bolt
 
I agree with Harald, and my motto is no name, no phone contact...no money sent. The only time I broke that rule was with Snakes at Sunset because I thought I was dealing with Amir. After sending the money I learned Amir had sold the store.
 
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