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kenneth Yates of South Carolina

You gotta be kidding

If you have pics and witnesses, WHERE ARE THEY. Kevin posted his. Ken (moderator) has as much right to his opinions as you do to sit there and call people names, and state how you hate everyone (very much like a child that you accussed others of being), yet you don't see people making idol threats to sue you for your name calling. Mardi can post from any city and state he is in, and you know that. Lets see yur pics.
 
Oh please Ken, do show the pictures.
By the way, I dont think the BOI is a dating service or a site for sperm donating. I believe it is for people who have been ripped off by others with regard to reptiles. Thats r-e-p-t-i-l-e should you decide to look up the meaning of it.
Thank you very much for trying to decide the best match for me oh mr. matchmaker, I think I will pass on your services though, you havent exactly done well in your other careers.
 
lol you are a basket case Ken

i would have done that but not after what the moderator put down now, if he will also apoligize then i will refund the money on the dead mambas and you can print this and i will send you the money if you both apoligize
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now you say you WOULD have gave a refund ?
but want someone who stated ADVICE to someone who was ripped off to say " opps sorry Mr Ken?"

And you want the person you ripped off to apologize for you ripping them off ?

do you want the pope to make you a saint while all the forgiving is going down ... id ask that to it just might happen .


geesh you are priceless
 
kennyboy, you are the biggest doggone baby I've seen here in a long long time.

I'll give you your money back if the big bad moderator says he's sorry for telling the truth about me. LAME LAME LAME

You have admitted that you owe the money for the dead snakes. You've have now said in writing that you would pay the guy which is pretty close to saying that you were wrong and know that. So just buck up and pay him.

Big Baby, and that's the best I can call you for now. The big kids never liked to play with you did they? I bet you were a big tattletail too. Oh wait, you still are. Some things never change.

Wes Pollock
 
Oh my Gosh.....

you are probably the funniest guy I have ever had the displeasure of dealingwith. Everyone on here has been more than cooperative in allowing you to state your case and I have even offered to wipe off all the snakes except for the green mambas if you would get this taken care of. But now you are back to no live arrival garauntee, even though you were the one responsible. You openly admitted that you didn't use the right insulaation by your own admission, that was openly admitted by you on this open forum and does make you liable.
Kevin Smith
 
WHAT???

What the hell does what Ken (mod) says about you have to do with you being a man, and doing the right thing??? You are making yourself look more foolish by the minute. Better bail out while you are behind.
 
Ken

The suicide rate in the US is high
if you would like i would gladly donate the gun and the bullet it would be faster and less painless then the slow painfull death you are putting yourself through at the present time . all this could have been easily solved 3-4 hras ago when you admitted you screwed up on shipping with that 1/4" insulation board and said you would refund his $ then there would have been 20 pages less on here
 
What does Ken H. and what he has to say have to do with you doing the right thing?
You are just tooooo darn funny!!
By the way oh match maker ken, wasnt that you in your last thread puckering up to the snake? Shall I post that pic to jog your memory? Who is spawning what?
 
i only told kevin i would refund to as you all say do the right thing.
that is the only eason i said i would refund. that is the only reason!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
ken

I gotta admit that I was a little biased against Kevin at first because of the way he caried on on a privious thread (and for that closed minded attitude, I am sorry Kevin), but after reading your posts, I see that I was wrong. I know Mardi, and IF you were in the right, he would have already come to bat for you here. We are still waiting to see the pics you CLAIM to have as evidence.
 
Ken, I just have to ask you, do you really think anybody would agree to a "No live arrival guarantee"?
Would you ever agree to that?
 
i am throughout the next 2 weeks make everything right with my window company and extra. all my customers will be happy.
as far as this kevin i do not know, my heart says refund on green mambas and my mind says the hell with it. so i do not know with him.
but, i am retiring next month and looking foward to it. i believe this bOI is bias and does not look at that facts as a whole.
retirement will be great.
i will pay EVERYONE BACK in all my companies that i MAY owe and retire.
nice knowing all of you and goodbye
 
Feels like the Jerry Springer show on here

Wow! Quite a war of words going on here. I have been asked by several people to post my own accurate reply to what has been said so far. First off, let me say that I am neither trying to implicate Kevin nor absolve Ken of any wrongdoing in this situation. My only involvement was in the bagging of the snakes.

Here goes: Key Yates asked me to bag up all of the venomous snakes that were going to be sent to Kevin. I told him I would if he compensated me. Ken paid me $200 to bag the snakes for him since most normal people don't like to try and bag Mambas and King Cobras. Ken has zero experience with venomous snakes and was recently stuck with a sizeable collection after he let go his two previous employees that took care of the venomous.

To address the main points. I did in fact bag up 6 Neotropical Rattlesnakes......not 2 or 5 BUT 6. I have no way of knowing what happened after I bagged the snakes but I can't imagine any reason Ken would then attempt to remove 4 of them after he just got through paying me $200 to bag them. If he was comfortable enough dealing with the venomous snakes to attempt to remove them why hire me at all? Again, this is just my impression as I have no way to know who is the real liar in this situation. I don't know Ken or Kevin very well and can't honestly attest to either person's character.

The Black Mamba in the picture does not appear to be the one I bagged. The one I bagged was about half that size. It was a subadult that was raised from a CB baby and was in excellent health when I bagged it.

I have no way of telling if the Green Mambas are the same , as I bagged 7 of them which were of varying sizes.

There was one Puff Adder missing. Ken wanted to send substitute snakes so I bagged several small Black Neck Spitting Cobras for this purpose.

I gave Ken some basic instructions as to how to properly pack the snakes. He used 6 two foot x two foot boxes. The insulation he used was of inferior thickness. This point is clear. I normally use 3/4" or 1/2" stryo for insulation with one large heat pack in a box this size and never have any problems.

All I can vouch for is what I have stated so far.

Like I said.... I don't know either Ken or Kevin very well and won't go so far as to suggest who is the liar here. Only that person knows.

I do have a life, and a very busy one at that so don't expect me to post any more messages on this forum about this situation.

Good luck to everyone involved. Happy Holidays and Good Night.

Mardi Snipes
www.CoastalReptiles.com
 
in conclusion...

My offer still stands, if you take care of this problem, I will publicly apologize for this entire thread. No fights, no fuss, it will just simply be over and ended. This BOI has it's moments, but I do totally understand. I have been in one of the biggest threads on here and I made a mistake and didn't prove my case thoroughly. I got more crap then I ever care to go through again, but I don't think it is a fact of it being biased, it is simply a case of showing all points of your claims accurately and with definate proof, otherwise it will blow back on you no matter if you are the one that was originally on the recieving or giving end. I hope this all gets taken care of and we can all go our seperate ways.
Kevin Smith
 
Thank you Mardi for coming on here and explaining what your purpose was in all this.
It still does not exonerate ken of any wrong doing. Mardi just bagged the snakes and gave instructions to ship that you, ken, did not follow correctly.
And there is still the question mark of what happened with the snakes AFTER Mardi bagged them?? Could be anything. Double selling some snakes, anything. And with your past reputation I would not put anything past you to make a buck.
 
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