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Kelli Hammack...H.I.S.S. Good Gal!!

Great Experience

I purchased my first Leopard Gecko from Kelli & Steve Saturday at the Arlington NARBC show. Steve was very friendly and very helpful to a Gecko newbie. It sure is nice to deal with good people with a great reputation, and I'm very happy that they are local, because I think I'm hooked on Leopard Geckos. Thank You Steve and Kelli :thumbsup:
 
Kelli Hammack is a very bad person. She will stab even the best customer and friend in the back in about two seconds, if the mood takes her. Buyer beware! Look at what she did to Rich Zuchowski. Now he let her back, and she will do the same thing again to him. This is all just my personal opinion based on my experience with her.
 
brucestephenson said:
Kelli Hammack is a very bad person. She will stab even the best customer and friend in the back in about two seconds, if the mood takes her. Buyer beware! Look at what she did to Rich Zuchowski. Now he let her back, and she will do the same thing again to him. This is all just my personal opinion based on my experience with her.

For clarification.

If I understand what happened on your thread on Kelli’s forum. You had a problem with someone else not Kelli. Because you have purchased animals form her in the past you assumed that you bought some type of protection that none could post in the future that they had a bad experience with you. You thought because you purchased from Kelli that she wouldn’t dare comment on a transaction that you had that went very badly.

I guess you thought wrong.

You weren’t home to accept your package on that thread. You wanted thousands of dollars worth of animals left on your door step without a signature. You were in the wrong. Period!

Did I understand that thread correctly?
 
Unfounded accusations by a known scammer like Bruce Stephenson. Imagine that.

Kelli Hammack is one the most upstanding and honest people ever to grace this website. There really aint even a need to dispute your filth now that I think about it.
 
Kelli Hammack is a very bad person. She will stab even the best customer and friend in the back in about two seconds, if the mood takes her. Buyer beware! Look at what she did to Rich Zuchowski. Now he let her back, and she will do the same thing again to him. This is all just my personal opinion based on my experience with her.

Bruce-

Would you mind explaining to me exactly how I stabbed you in the back? Here is the exact quote from the thread on my website that upset you so:

I have to say that I have sold to both Bruce and GKO Reptiles and both were fantastic customers to deal with. My thoughts on this situation are very clear and concise. If I know that I am to be receiving animals on a particular morning, I make sure that I am home and ready to receive them. Now, some things are out of our control so to speak (what if Bruce was in the bathroom, what if an emergency came up and he had to leave etc, when Fed Ex rang the doorbell). Still, I feel as a customer it is my responsibility to make sure I am home and able to receive the animals I know are arriving that morning when they arrive. If GKO's written terms on their website state that their live arrival guarantee is null and void if the package isn't signed for, then the situation is pretty clear. I ship all my geckos, no matter the value, signature required. I do not want my animals left on someone's porch, I want them signed for and received by the buyer.

Sorry Bruce, I just truly feel you are in the wrong on this one. Especially if they offered to meet you halfway on the deal and you declined. I just don't see how any of it is GKO's fault. They did the proper thing by shipping their animals signature required, I expect no less from anyone that ships geckos to me. BTW, Christine, do you have a copy of the email where you guys offered Bruce half the money back? It might be helpful if you go ahead and post that here.

I guess you must feel that even when a "friend" (guess I was wrong about you being one) is in the wrong, I should agree with their position no matter how I truly feel.

As far as my situation with Rich, we have worked that out between us. I care about Rich's opinion of me very much and the situation between us has nothing, zero, to do with my business. It had to do with a tragedy that occured in my life and with a sleazebucket named Chris Johnson trying to gain from my tragedy. You bringing it up here again makes you look much worse than I do.
 
brucestephenson said:
Kelli Hammack is a very bad person. She will stab even the best customer and friend in the back in about two seconds, if the mood takes her. Buyer beware! Look at what she did to Rich Zuchowski. Now he let her back, and she will do the same thing again to him. This is all just my personal opinion based on my experience with her.
Bruce, just what IS your experience with Kelli? If I remember correctly, your direct experience in doing business with her was more than favorable. What did she do to you other than disagree with you when you were trying to get a refund from GKO Reptiles by falsely claiming the geckos you purchased from them arrived dead, when in reality you didn't want to get out of bed to sign for them when FedEx delivered them. Those geckos DIED a horrible death because you were too lazy to answer the door, and they were put back on the hot truck!

Not only are you on my "do not sell to" list, but you are now on the top of my "do not associate with" list. I would tell you how I really feel about you, but you aren't worth getting any warning points over. SHAME ON YOU!
 
brucestephenson said:
Kelli Hammack is a very bad person. She will stab even the best customer and friend in the back in about two seconds, if the mood takes her. Buyer beware! Look at what she did to Rich Zuchowski. Now he let her back, and she will do the same thing again to him. This is all just my personal opinion based on my experience with her.
That is beyond low to even try to dredge up that situation between Kelli and Rich again. You're being nothing but a cry baby because you didn't get your way in a situation of your own making.
 
Bruce,
I think your post serves as another textbook example of why folks should pause and think before hitting the "Post Reply" button. If for no other reason, to think through one last time "what am I going to accomplish here?" So, in a post that is #102 in a thread that will bury again soon enough, without any resurrection ever bringing post #102 to light again, you have only attracted attention to it today, and the recollections that last beyond today. Did you make more friends from it ? Influence people positively about you ? Negatively about Kelli ? With the answer to all three a resounding "NO", the only thing accomplished is that more people now have a negative opinion of you than before. I do not wish you ill, but your post was not the stuff of brilliance. :rolleyes:

<pause>

Ok, I have thought twice, and decided to post this anyway :)
 
shrap said:
Kelli Hammack is one the most upstanding and honest people ever to grace this website.
Not just this website but this planet.

There was no call for your post here Bruce. I read that entire thread some time back. I can see that you were upset but with the passage of time I would have hoped that you would have realized that you were 100% in the wrong to have missed the shipment (more than once if I recall correctly) and that the other party was more than generous in their original offer. Kelli was more than fair in her treatment of you in her post there, more than you evidently deserved.
 
Golden Gate Geckos said:
Bruce, just what IS your experience with Kelli? If I remember correctly, your direct experience in doing business with her was more than favorable.

That would be correct.
brucestephenson said:
Kelli Hammack is a pleasure to buy from. I saw an ad last year for "Flame", the best leopard gecko I had ever seen. I bought him for $1,500.00 even though I had no idea that Kelli is one of the top 5 leo breeders in terms of quality in the world. She held him for me for several weeks, while I ordered a rack from Boaphile Plastics. I then called her, and she sent him right away. Try that with a lot of those shmucks out there!

By the way Kelli, Flame is doing fine, and has some great looking girls that I bought from a number of members of Fauna Classifieds and the leopard gecko forum. Thank You! :cool:

brucestephenson said:
I recently purchased seven of Kelli Hammack's best leopard geckos for $2,800.00. She even threw in two extras. Kelli Hammack is the finest leopard gecko breeder and seller on the planet today, in my humble opinion. You wouldn't believe how beautiful her(now mine! ha ha) leopard geckos are. Thanks Kelli! You are The Greatest!
brucestephenson said:
Kelli and Marcia are the highest class of individuals here on Fauna. They always have something nice to say. Zero negativity.
brucestephenson said:
I paid $1,500.00 for Kelli Hammack's male Flame last summer. He still surpasses any of the Urban Tornados I purchased, but the Tornados are juvies, not a large adult like Flame.

brucestephenson said:
I would like to say in support of you, Kelli, that you are the one person here on the BOI that I would have total confidence in breeding loaning any of my prize reptiles to
brucestephenson said:
How could anybody be so stupid as to rip off someone with Kelli's standing and reputation in the herp community???? It is like a death sentence for your business.

She then posted that very respectful post and you reply with this.

brucestephenson said:
What a disappointment! I spent all this money with her and said all kind of good things about her. Now I just found out that she put a knife in my back on her own forums. Oh well! Go figure - this is the reptile business. She did send me great stuff, but didn't bother to tell me she fu****(edited by D.Hultman) me on her own site.
brucestephenson said:
Kelli Hammack is a very bad person. She will stab even the best customer and friend in the back in about two seconds, if the mood takes her. Buyer beware! Look at what she did to Rich Zuchowski. Now he let her back, and she will do the same thing again to him. This is all just my personal opinion based on my experience with her.

Not a very "Jedi" :rolleyes: response.
 
Kelli.. You are awesome..And I am honored to call you my friend... Do not let Bruce get to you...Just consider the source...We all know, trust and beleive in you whole heartedly here...YOU ROCK GIRL :thumbsup:
 
Thanks guys, and Lynn, I love you! You know you are always in my thoughts.

Bruce, it hurt my feelings when I first saw your post here, just like it did a few months ago. You are entitled to your opinion of me, and I respect it, even though we both know you are wrong.
 
Kelli you are great. Everyone knows it. Just some do not know how to deal with their own issues and take them out on others.

Just keep doing what you are doing. You my good friend set bars that many of us look to reach.
 
Wow brucie, I didn't think a coward like you could get any lower.

Dopey me, wrong again.

You're really a scumbag brucie, first class A#1 avoid at all costs bag o' scum.

Lying, trying to steal from college kids, throwing your ENORMOUS weight around to try to bully people into GIVING you things, supporting convicted criminals and smugglers, just an all around pile of poo.

You're lucky Steve is such a mellow guy. Some of us wouldn't take so well your constant abuse of our parmours and may just make you regret your continued stupidity.

Hmmmm, I sort of like Kelli, and I don't like you at all. Maybe we could discuss your treatment of my friend sometime. I know YOU and your enormousity would be hard to miss at any show we were both at and I know you've said you'd like to meet me in person, though I do believe you said something about you and your "friends" who I can only ASSume are fellow thieves and smugglers and fatass losers like yourself, so hey, I'm all for it.

You gonna heave your bulk to Daytona this year? It's possible I'll be there.
 
dand, I simply must disagree with you about ANYTHING other than a screen name or actual name being OVERLY ABUSIVE towards another member.

Now maybe YOU are so sensitive that in the past when I called YOU dandy, referring to an effeminate buttlicking toady, YOU were offended, and I'm ok with that, but really now, calling that cowardly scumbag (which you did NOT hit me for) stepehensen brucie is HARDLY overly abusive.

Maybe my skin is thicker than yours. Maybe I'm not scrounging for any little thing to keep this fued you've started going. Maybe, and this is most likely the case, I just don't CARE what you do or how you do it other than pointing out just how stupid it is when you do it.

The guy is a known theif. He supports the smuggling and smugglers of reptiles and who knows what else. He's a scumbag that tries to hurt people that he has tried to buy friendship from. WHY cozen such as this? To further YOUR little fued with me?

How pathetic. Truly sorrowful.
 
Did he really just hit you for saying Brucie? But doesnt think you being referred to as Wesley is not the same violation?

Interesting.
 
shrap said:
Did he really just hit you for saying Brucie? But doesnt think you being referred to as Wesley is not the same violation?

Interesting.
Not to sidetrack, but yes. He's done it several times when I've addressed known scumbags as other than their given or screen names. I guess it's all he's got and he just won't leave me be.

It's not REAL selective enforcement is it? But, then again, he and lucille are fast friends so I guess she is not held to the same standard as I am, since I don't like him at all.

Of course, good mods, like Dennis and John and Harald DON'T let personal feelings interfere in the proper carrying out of thier duties, but dand will NEVER meet the bar they set, not in a million million years, he's just incapable.
 
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