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LA Reptiles

I would like to say I agree about what everyone has said reguarding sources and success.
In addition;
You may not realize it Bruce, but just like there are good and bad sellers, there are good and BAD customers.
Just today I was amazed (I don't know why, it happens all the time) that a customer emailed me and wanted to know if since they had previously purchased an item, they could have a DISCOUNT on another item. Everybody wants something for nothing. We get this all the time in one form or another. We go through great pains to offer both high quality supplies and animals at reasonable and competative pricing and I actually find these people very insulting.
It would be like you working your butt off for an hourly wage and at the end of the day your boss coming in and saying, "Do you think you could give me a discount?"
That is just one example, there are many many more. I am not even talking about the ones that write bad checks or have declined credit cards and call up yelling because they didn't get their order.
I would love to be in a situation where I could pick and choose exactly who I would deal with and if you think that makes a person "stuck up" then don't deal with them. Just remember, the customer isn't the only one with a choice.
 
Doggone it, looks like I missed another meeting. Who voted to put bruce in charge and why wasn't I notified of the impending vote?

These things really need to made public sooner. If we must have someone making decisions for us I'd like to have some say in who it is and not just have some yahoo come on and start telling me/us what we can and cannot do.

Wes Pollock
 
I have to tell you all that what I personally dislike most about big time dealers and breeders is when they have a stuck up, I'm so great, holier than thou, she will only deal with me attitude.
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This is a free country and I will give out information as I so choose. I have read your complaint and I will render a judgement soon.
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And now who is acting "holier than thou"?

Yes, it is a free country. You are certainly free to make an a$$ out of yourself anytime you feel like it.

There is also this thing called "courtesy"...even "professional courtesy" which I am sure LA Reptiles would be very appreciative of. I know I would be.
 
Bruce,
Why would you want to give out other peoples info? Who are you to decide what goes public or not?
I found your opinions to be just that, your opinions, until now.
Surely you have information you would not want broadcast all over the place.
I truly hope you think about your potential actions before you decide to act on them.
 
Someone give me at least one good reason why this thread should remain on the BOI or it gets moved......

I can't see one myself.
 
I have met Chris from LA Reptile several times, and all of the workers there seem to be really nice people. However, upon asking if I could buy direct from them, I was very nicely told no. I am 100% retail, and therefore am not allowed to purchase from them, period. As a businessman, I totaly understand this policy. I do however buy from wholesalers that buy from LA Reptile, and am given a "heads up" on anything neat coming in or recently aquired, so I can still buy it, at a slightly higher price of course. I have no problem with their policy, it's like a food chain. I'm third on it. That's not bad at all.

Ok Rich, move this thing now. Have a great breeding season.
 
David, put this thread to bed please. Look in the phone book, find the number for whatever department handles business licenses in California and give them a call. They can then give you LA's contact info. They are a business, it is all public info. Now everyone go to bed and stop fighting...lol
 
Just dawned on me, I am assuming LA stands for LA, California. If they are not in CA, look up the licensing department for whatever state they are in.
 
I am probably the only individual on this site

that can purchase from Chris or Gene and I know them both very well especially Chris. (since she was seventeen) . They dont need the money, and they dont need new customers, what they apparently need is some order in their life when it comes to doing business with people who claim they are wholesalers in the trade. Thats not an easy thing to do considering everyone seems to be a wholesaler in the trade! Chris is very set in her ways, and she prefers to accept business these days by way of introduction from another wholesaler not by a telephone call. Thats how she protects her clientell from people who are looking for a deal because of her prices.

If you are a legitimate wholesaler, have a place of business like Rob from RK, and would like to do business with LA Reptiles, you should have no problem in getting her fax of livestock availability, but otherwise, dont waste your time or hers, ....she has a good memory, and can be fickle at times. JERRY
 
Put this to rest!

Someone suggested I put this thread to rest! How do I do that? I asked a simple question and was hoping for a simple answer. I am now strictly a wholesaler and was way back in the day when I was dealing with LA Reptile. You guys took this thread way off topic! Take a few deep breaths! Relax! If those of you who know the answer and could help me, and don't want to, that's fine. I can still find out by simply going to a little more trouble.

Thank you!

David Rivers

Attn: WebSlave
I ask that you please put this back on the BOI, where I started it for 24 hours, so that the guys and gals who want to have some more fun with it can do so! Then juse delete this entire thread!
 
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David R. said:
Someone suggested I put this thread to rest! How do I do that?
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Like I said before, just contact the licensing department of the state they do business in. Simple as that. One quick and easy phone call.
 
Hey Jerry, thanks for the laugh. You are too funny sometimes. The only one out of over 7000 members that can buy from LA.

Did you have to have the doors on your house customized to get your head through too? I've seen some big heads here but I think that one takes the cake for now.

The only one....... hilarious.

Wes Pollock
 
Well from my point of view.....like anyone cares.

I am a NOBODY.
I am not even a business.
I do not think I am Hollier than thou.

But when I actually got into contact with a company who let me buy from them wholesale..... I was elated. Actually they had two companies. One was wholesale only the other is for retail only.

I would not give that information up. I worked hard for my one and only contact.
think about it.
I plan on being a business
Why in the world would I give my customers or any Joe Schmoe my contacts information?

If I was Wal-Mart....would I give my supplier list to Target?
Would I give the list to all my customers?
HELL NO !!!

Is it because I am mean? No
It is because business is business..
I might let my friends purchase (piggy back) on my order for a 10% fee. And they would still get Heck of a deal.

Unfortunately that company has been gone for a year or two.


Now.... I know an up and coming breeder who breeds ball python morphs and boa morphs.
And with him money talks. If you have 10 - 20k to spend..... You can pretty much buy the latest morphs at 30-65% off. Will I give his name up? HELL NO.
Is it because I am being mean? NO
1. Business is business
2. I do not want to be the cause of the market crashing down.
and so forth and so on.
3. He does not advertise his special prices.

The up and coming breeders.....AND sometimes the big breeders need cash quick.
Do you see them advertising on Kingsnake or any other venue? NO.
These "special" prices get e-mailed to close friends.
Is it because they/we are hollier than thou? No. it is called protecting the market.
part of the whole intrigue is to have something cool and expensive.
Will I really want a piebald if it was only $10? Probably not. I do not think they are that good looking. But because it is expensive.....I want it.

It is protecting the market and peoples lively hoods.

There was some fool posting recently that he was gonna sell albino granite burms for 250 or some ridiculous price. I am only a hobby and I was rather upset. I bet the breeders who read his cr@p was pretty gosh darn perturbed.
 
Wes. you never cease to amaze me.

but I would like to know if any other individual on this site has access to doing business with LA Reptiles. If so fine, but I doubt it.
I mentioned it only because I know them very well, and I happen to have supplied Chris when I was importing many years ago. This also goes for Burgandy Reptiles, Strictly Reptiles, Hank Molts Global Exotics, Bronx Reptiles, Stan Chiris Reptiles, and a whole host of other people who have been in the trade for some time.

Why its even necessary to say anything about the subject unless its pertinent is beyond me. As usual when you put your two cents in , it only worth that. But I would still like to know, if your so quick to respond to my thread. Please give me the name of 1 individual on this site who can do business with LA Reptles. and I will gladly rewrite and correct myself on this site, if not please dont get involved with things that you know nothing about.
 
Some of us have dealt with them for years. For me it's not a matter of protecting or hording secret contacts. It's a matter of courtesy to them. I have customers who ask me if it's ok to have a contact they know call me for wholesale prices. They understand that I spend a great deal of time explaining to "wanna be " dealers what I consider a wholesale order. I.E. 100 or more Iggie's not 12!
 
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KNOBTAIL said:
that can purchase from Chris or Gene and I know them both very well especially Chris. (since she was seventeen) . They dont need the money, and they dont need new customers, what they apparently need is some order in their life when it comes to doing business with people who claim they are wholesalers in the trade. Thats not an easy thing to do considering everyone seems to be a wholesaler in the trade! Chris is very set in her ways, and she prefers to accept business these days by way of introduction from another wholesaler not by a telephone call. Thats how she protects her clientell from people who are looking for a deal because of her prices.

If you are a legitimate wholesaler, have a place of business like Rob from RK, and would like to do business with LA Reptiles, you should have no problem in getting her fax of livestock availability, but otherwise, dont waste your time or hers, ....she has a good memory, and can be fickle at times. JERRY
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All Hail Jerry Tresser and his contacts.
 
I don't know why Jerrys post bothered me, but it did, so I will throw my own thoughts in on this. IF I were to decide to go into the wholesale herp business, I know for a fact that I could and might, if I choose, do business with LA Reptiles. I have to agree with Wes, it would be very odd if there is not someone who is a member of fauna who also does not do business with them. I guess I should not complain, since I have no ambition to sell reptiles wholesale, and therefore have no plans to buy from a jobber. But I know I could if I felt like it.
 
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