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Bad Guy Manny Frade of Perfect Predators

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Ali Alredha

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Some time around July 2013 I made an order of Boas and Ball pythons from Many Frade of Perfect Predators. Despite a few delays the order got here and to be honest I was happy with my snakes, and by SEPT 2013 I was back to place a second and much bigger order ($8,000). Manny and myself were always in contact and reaching him on his cel phone was very easy and we spoke almost twice a week. In Oct 2013 ALL permits were ready and we were good to go but thats when all the problems started.

Manny slowly started ignoring my phone calls and not giving updates on my snakes. he had promised me a list of what was confirmed and once even said he would send me pictures and till today I haven't received either of the two. now it has been 4 months since they should have travelled and i haven't received anything. I've spent all of the month of February (now more than 2 weeks) asking for my money back and he will once in a while write an email totally ignoring that request and just giving excuse after excuse and promising to sent that list he never sent and still hasn't done so !

Now since there were posts from friend's of mine on a few facebook pages, people have messaged me bringing to my attention that there have been others that experienced the same with Perfect Predators and Manny Frade. I have also found a frightening article regarding his fraudulent past which will be posted for everyone to see unless i get a shipping confirmation or my money this week.

its been too long and this level of unprofessionalism is unacceptable. You'd think that for an order of $8,000 he would at least answer my phone calls or prepare a list that would not take more then 20 minutes to put together.
 
Hi, Ali.

I wish you luck, but as you said, your experience with Manny Frade is not unique or unexpected. There are several other multipage threads here about him.
 
Ali, posting e-mails and all relevant conversations would be helpful.

Though, as stated above, this is not a unique situation to Manny.
 
Ali... You need to post up some of the information asked here. Post some emails, correspondence and how you paid for these animals here. This is important Ali!

Manny. I'm sure there's an explanation... He'd like to hear it, and so would I. He's been posting in the BP forums that this is going on for months. Paperwork? What's the deal?

(Sending a link to him now.)
 
I've been watching this unfold on Facebook, in the group called FBI - Feedback and Inquiries For Reptiles. Here are a couple of screenshots. The first is an email that the OP received from Manny, the second is an update from the OP on the situation (posted 16 hours ago).
 

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More updates from Facebook.

So it looks like the total that was spent on these snakes was $9,205.

The OP has stated that Bob Clark helped by contacting Manny, and recently received some animals from Manny that he will be sending on to the OP. However, not all of the animals that are owed were received by Bob Clark.

Will make another post with the other attachment(s) shortly.
 

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http://miami.craigslist.org/mdc/for/4338369023.html

Manny currently has (3) 33 bin Freedom Breeder snake racks for sale on Craigslist (South Florida) I was actually considering one of them for my sub-adults. I am uncertain as to what is going on but, after seeing some of the recent post....Seeing snake racks to hold a total of 66 animals for sale might concern me if I had a deposit on animals. Please don't take this as an inaccurate assumption, (He may just be replacing his rack systems) but I thought it was worth sharing!
 
joshtrout said:
Well, he may have a hard time with that. With all the courtroom time, and possible prison time he is facing and all.
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And rightly fully deserves to be in prison. Glad that wasn't my parents being ripped off.

After all the ads,papers and every other post about this "pos" ,he still gets people to buy from him. $8000 worth! I see people just don't care what type of person he is!!
Appalled people are buying his stuff. It shows what type of character others are.
 
He is posting on a daily basis in his Boa Constrictor Aficionados group on Facebook, so I kind of doubt he is too busy to respond to the OP. Speaking of Facebook, the OP said last night he has received: "Nothing yet and it's been over a year but just yesterday he wrote saying he will be sending snakes within 5 to 10 days but I'm not going to hold my breath."
 
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