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Inquiry Laucke Hooper?

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Can anyone provide references for Laucke Hooper? I am considering a deal with him and any information would be helpful. This forum has certainly been an asset in the past. Thanks in advance.
 
I have sold snakes to Laucke, easy transaction and pleasure to talk to.

Chris
 
Reptilemike,
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Laucke Hooper

Reptilemike, could you provide details of your transaction with Laucke? I'd be interested in finding out more before making a purchase - appreciate it!
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Deb V.
 
lets take this back up it is amassing how many pms i have gotten if half the people would post there experiences we could have one heck of a bad guy post. Mike Schofield
 
WOW the amount of pms i have gotten on or about this guy are fanominal so instead of sending a ton of pms i am just going to post my experiences with this individual and bring him out in the open and if any one wishes to add there neg or positive experiences please do. i have known laucke for a few years now and have herd many stories of problems people have had with him, but against my better judgement i thought i would give him a chance. The first time he screwed me was back in around december he called me saying he had a male albino burm he got from a guy who had a bad respiratory infection and wanted to know if i had any medication he could use since he did not have the cash to go to a vet. i said yes i had a full bottle of tylosin he could come get some but to weigh the snake before he came so i could make up syringes for him. well he came over and did not weigh the snake so against my better judgement i let him take my bottle and told him to bring it to the cleveland show in 2 weeks . well the show came around and he "forgot" to bring it, so a few weeks later i called laucke and told him I needed it back since a friend of mines burm also got a respiratory , where he then told me he did not feal like bringing it back he needed it to treat like 8 other snakes that got sick, that if i wanted it i would half to pick it up from his house 30 min away in a snow storm . i told him to just bring it the fallowing weekend to the cleveland show. he did bring it when i got it back half of my $100 bottle of medication was gone and he gave me $10 like he was doing me a huge favor. that was the first big strike 1 with me the second thing he pulled with me was that i told laucke i would sell him 100rats weekly if he wanted for $100since he was crying for months how he could not find or afford pet store rodents to feed his animals . he told me he could only use 50 every other week . so i agreed to sell him wholesale prices since i was trying to get new customers to sell to . he came out the first week and bought 50, his second week he told me he did not have any cash to buy rodents and he really needed to feed his reptiles, so i made him an offer on a pinstripe ball python he was selling. he said he decided to keep it for his son, which i can understand , so i said no problem. i asked him if he had any other snakes for trade. he told me about a male mojave he had for sale, so i offered him $175 in trade since that is what i pay wholesale from a friend of mine. i told him if he wanted i had 25-30 mice i could swap out for rats if he wanted mice as well, so he said he would think about it. he called me a few hours later and asked how many rats that was and i told him 175 , so he proceeded to say he would do it for the 175 rats and the mice , i told him the mice were not included so he proceeded to say he would need to think about it, so i through them in and said what the heck. so i took him 50 rats and the mice since he only wanted 50 rats at a time and picked the snake up . anyways it was time for him to get another 50 rats tords paying the snake off, and he called me and said he was out of town and could i drop off the rats 30 min away, and feed his ball pythons,he then said that would be 100 out of the 275 i owed him. i stopped him and said we agreed on 175 not 275 , when he said oh yah thats fine just please drop them off. i was not happy about it since his snakes are a halfhour from me and i am not a delivery service, but i agreed to do so as a favor to him. then the next day he calls me and leaves me a message thanking me for dropping the rats off, but we have a problem with our agreement to call him asap. so i called him back when he proceeded to say we agreed on 275 not 175 that he would pay me for the rats he received and take his snake back since he wanted more for it which i knew he would screw me on . so told him i already sold it so he gave me a massive attitude and demanded i give him 75 med to large rats instead of the 75 smalls still owed. which i sell med for $2.50 and large for $3.50 . so yesterday i went give him his final 75 smalls rats where he proceeded to tell me he refused to take the rats they were to small and not med .that i should sell them and he would pick up lager ones from me. so i sold the rats to a vendor and sent the cash over to his table with a friend of mine since i wanted to hit the guy and told him to tell laucke i would never do business with him again, where he proceeded to tell my friend thats fine he would not do business with me again since i was shady. The best part is Laucke thinks every one at the cleveland show is shady , but the real deal is its not every one else its him, and if he is not careful he will be out of the cleveland show since the owners of the show and all the vendors are sick of him as well. all i half to say is stay clear do not do any deals with him .any one wanting to post experiences please feel free the ice is broken dont be shy . Mike Schofield
 
Laucke Hooper

Reptilemike,

Thanks for the heads up - sounds like he's an idiot to deal with! I will definitely not be doing business with him - much appreciated!
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Deb V.
 
To anyone that should ask, reptile mike wanted my mohave male very badly so I traded him for 275 small rats..I gave him the snake upfront and he was allowed to give me 50 to 75 a month. He only paid me with 175 small rats, sold the snake and said the deal was done. Mike and I were friends until this. Thats what friends do.

Laucke Hooper..330-730-4407
 
Mike Schofield- Do you have any e-mails to post that show that Mr.Hooper agreed to the 175 rats? Any and all emails regarding this transactons would be very informative!
 
Unfortunately Mike did a great job lieing to everyone of you. I did borrow meds for a respitory infection for 1 burm and only 1 burm..He was a self proclaimed burm expert So I went to a friend for help..I used 3 shots of med that were 19 months expired when I found this out I quit using them. I then took the animal to the vet. The rat deal is common sense you did not buy mohave for 175.00 at that time let alone trade for them with small rats..I agreed to a rat deal because he wanted to hide the deal from his soon to be wife. Not all deals go as plan such is the nature of our business but at the end of the day all of us should man up to what we do wrong and right; On this deal Mike is just wrong. Common sense will show you that. Mike could not handle the fact that someone he knew would not give him something for free... By the way I can produce a vet bill for my albino burm. I am not quite as poor as MIke would like you to think. Once again a liar.
 
nice to see you finally got on her laucke . there was a verbal agreement between laucke and i . and for the correct deal it was for $175 not $275 . the only reason i bothered to give a deal to laucke on trade was due to the fact he agreed to take the rats on a weekly basis and then when the time came he said he did not have the cash so i offered him the 275 rats for his pinstripe, which he declined saying his son wanted to keep him . so i asked what else he had and the mojave came up so i offered him whole sale at 175 since i was giving him rats at wholesale prices even with his small orders, to do him a favor. the story is above. i know for a fact i am not the only person at the cleveland show or else where who has had the mis fortune of knowing or dealing with a true 100% liar! :NoNo: lets keep this at the top maybe this time more people will see this and post there experiences. Mike Schofield
 
HA ha Wow..Instead of working this out face to face you Mike you drag it here..Well I guess time will tell. Different Stories. Readers can decide for themselves. Mike is right about 1 thing I do not put up with alot of BS so when it gets brought to me I usually call it.I should of called it here Sorry I did not. I have many happy customers and hope to have many more in the future.
 
Lauke - you are selling a 100% Het albino arabesque that's an adult for $800 on KS? Yearlings go for more than that....what gives (or am I missing something)?

Thanks,
Rob
 
rob thank you for the inquirey. I asked 2 well know boa breeders and both of them said that she should go for around 800-1000. I chose the lower price for a quicker sell. Not knowing your experience level what do you feel an adult breeder female should sell for..That is actually possible of getting?
 
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