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Inquiry Joe Blume

What caught my attention was he has 1.1.0 Caramel Ball Pythons "no pictures" for sale and misspelled Cara,el as Carmel. I then looked at his other ads I just kinda thought to myself maybe this guy is looking to scam some hard earned money from unsuspecting people.
 
I'm going to post some beardie photos he sent me. He offered these to me for $27.50 each in a lot of 10. These are a little too nice for $27.50. I asked for some dated photos and he says he will send them tomorrow. I will copy the email he sent as well as the photos. Please if any one recognizes these from somewhere else please let me know. I hate to think badly and I hope he's a stand up guy but there's been so much scamming lately I'm a tad skeptical.
 
I edited out the phone number just in case.

heres the beardiesWednesday, April 21, 2010 6:11 PMFrom: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>Add sender to ContactsTo: [email protected]essage contains attachments5 Files (322KB) | Download Allchrisredfemale2.jpgchrisredmale1.jpgchrisredmale2.jpgChrisallenreds.jpgchrisallenreds2.jpg

I can do $27.50 ea which would be $275 which includes shipping give me a call if interested 803-576-0902
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Photos sent by him.

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The middle picture shows the same dragon as in the bottom picture on the left, and the top dragon is the center one in the bottom pic, so apparently, the images are indeed from the same person/breeder.

The egg-carton image reminds me of Blood Bank Dragons, as they often take pictures of baby dragons on egg cartons, but I don't think they take pics on a dark, glassy surface like the first two, so I doubt the images are from them.

This guy might be legit...though the "too good to be true" pricing would keep me from purchasing anything from him.
 
Wow, and to think that he sent me a PM telling me about how he wasn't a scammer.

I was actually very interested in buying some of his dragons he had up for sale. I kept asking him to send me some pics, and also to send me a pic with a piece of paper with my name on it in the background. He has made several ads, and they were very similar, so i thought he was deleting the ads. Well, turns out he wasn't deleting the ads, so I was wrong about that part, but either way, this is what he told me in a pm.

reptileluver79 said:
after speaking to a few people im not comfortable putting my animals with your name on it if you feel uncomfortable in any way or think you're being scammed our conversation needs to go no further i have a great job making 40+ thousand dollars a year and dont need to scam anyone for a few hundred dollars im sorry if this offends you but quite honestly you offended me thank you
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The fact that he didn't even respond to me on any of the ads, and the fact that he got offended because I asked for some pics, was a red flag to me.
 
He's not comfortable writing your name on a piece of paper? I guess he thought you would upscam him and use the photos to claim they were yours,lol. He was very nice when I asked and promised to do it tomorrow. These scammers are putting on a pretty weak game lately. Lazy scammers!!!
 
LOL, the black glass, i seen it and was thinking of Corky.

STEVE,
good eye buddy! You called this one out. And in a good time frame! :thumbsup::thumbsup:
 
dragonluver83 said:
LOL, the black glass, i seen it and was thinking of Corky.

STEVE,
good eye buddy! You called this one out. And in a good time frame! :thumbsup::thumbsup:
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Steve is awesome when it comes to spotting scams. We are always talking about whos the upcoming scammer as asking them questions. An amazing guy with amazing snakes. Cant wait to get one of them Mojo het pieds.
 
After looking at one of his "ads", I just wanted to thank everyone that helped, yet again, to block a scammer from doing business here. Just one more reason that I love this site!!!

Matt Jackson
 
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