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Inquiry Precision Reptile Labs

Adam morris the next contestant on biggest loser, step right up.

Nice. Apparently I'm the next contestant on a popular weight loss television show. This guy's wit is razor sharp.

It blows my mind that some one like this can even run a business, let alone get through a single day in life. Granted his business record is 0 - 1, there was a time when Dark Forest Reptiles existed, and I'd love to know the story behind it. Like how he fell into the money to start it, or (more then likely the case) who he bought it from. Aside from having an undeserved sense of accomplishment and massive ego, he has the social skills of al qaeda. In all honesty, the only person I ever saw say good things about him was Jerry Abel on here and Jon and Amy on FatFrogs..... AND THEY BOTH ENDED UP BEING NICK! It's a riot to Google "Dark Forest Reptiles" and just look through the links that come up, I've never seen anything like it. Nothing but bad reviews and warnings about them. And this is GOOGLE, not some reptile hobby forum. It's clear to see why he ditched it and is trying a new name. But, if history teaches us anything, Nick Nistico will be the next contestant on Cops.
 
It's a riot to Google "Dark Forest Reptiles" and just look through the links that come up, I've never seen anything like it. Nothing but bad reviews and warnings about them. And this is GOOGLE, not some reptile hobby forum. It's clear to see why he ditched it and is trying a new name. But, if history teaches us anything, Nick Nistico will be the next contestant on Cops.

The real chuckle Adam is that in a rather entertaining phone conversation I had with Nick a couple of hours ago, I brought up that very point. He claims that he SOLD the Dark Forest Reptiles name to someone who wanted to do business under it.

Yup...that sounds likely.

Funny thing is that he still owns the domain

Registrant:
Dark Forest Reptiles

67 NW 45 Ave #206
Dearfield Beach, Florida 33442
United States

Registered through: Cruzan Concepts
Domain Name: DARKFORESTREPTILES.COM
Created on: 20-Jan-06
Expires on: 20-Jan-09
Last Updated on: 24-Oct-07

Administrative Contact:
Nistico, Nickolas [email protected]
Dark Forest Reptiles
67 NW 45 Ave #206
Dearfield Beach, Florida 33442
United States
5612025263

Technical Contact:
Nistico, Nickolas [email protected]
Dark Forest Reptiles
67 NW 45 Ave #206
Dearfield Beach, Florida 33442
United States
5612025263

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He is definitely a funny guy. :D
 
Oh yes, i'm sure someone would blindly invest that kind of money with out knowing ANYTHING about the business.


The real victum here though, and who I truly feel sorry for, I found when I googled Precision Reptiles. It appears that there is a real, legit company called "Precision Reptiles" that is in no way connected or related to Nick Nistico or "Precision Reptile Labs". I should probably contact them about this. That is one case of mistaken identity that I'm SURE they wouldn't want to have.
 
Nick also verified by phone that virtually all of the 35 Precision Reptile posts were made by him with the exception of a few of the first ones that he claims were "Jerry". Personally I still believe that each and every one was Nick
 
The real victum here though, and who I truly feel sorry for, I found when I googled Precision Reptiles. It appears that there is a real, legit company called "Precision Reptiles" that is in no way connected or related to Nick Nistico or "Precision Reptile Labs". I should probably contact them about this. That is one case of mistaken identity that I'm SURE they wouldn't want to have.

It's a nice thought, but Precision Reptiles has such a spotless reputation, as well as such high end impeccable animals, that I doubt anyone could make the mistake of confusing the 2. I don't even think they would come here to clarify, as I don't feel they'd have anything to gain....besides, I think we just did that for them!:thumbsup:
 
This guy, wow....

I just got another E-mail from him; I have had no contact with him so I don’t know where this is from. He has tried to call me several times all of which I ignore; a person such as this doesn’t deserve a second of my time.

Here is a copy of the mail:

[ No Subject ]Saturday, November 29, 2008 1:22 PM
From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>Add sender to Contacts To: [email protected]

i suggest you never type my name again on a forum, or i will again expose your fat dog face girlfriend to the you tube world.

Also do not make threats about "if you see me" because i will embarrass you. By the way, my girlfriend is hot, and my dogs asses are not
Thanks!

--Nick
Precision Reptile Labs
#1 Tropical World Way
Boynton Beach FL 33437
Office hours 8am-8pm
Office 561-736-9545
fax 561-736-9546
24 hour Internet service line
561-202-5263
[email protected]

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Now some observations that I would like to point out that I have made. . .

Nick brags about his multi million dollar ~reptile breeding~ operation; HOWEVER... I look at all of his pictures and videos and think to myself that it sure looks like he is in some sort of plant nursery. Let’s take a look at a few things here...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nroeGGa9gdI

Now, this panther got out of his cage and made his way to a greenhouse full of orchids? Odd thing to keep in a reptile breeding facility..?..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nroeGGa9gdI

In this video I see only 1 chameleon ‘cube’ or whatever he has in it. If he has 100000 of animals I would expect to see a place packed with things like that. Also, a breeder of 10000 of animals uses the fabric reptariums? This would be green house #2, unless he moved all of his chameleon orchid plants?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KTxS3JePXs

More still... What looks to be his only ‘cube’ in the open room again... A gravid panther that is about to lay according to him, now according to Nick I probably have only a fraction of the experience that he has, however all my chameleons need some sort of soil to dig and lay in, not a mulch bottom that likely has the same rocks under it. You can also see what looks to be a Dark Forest banner in the background.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzEIjwa97Ko

1 3d greenhouse, or again the same one? For a person that claims to have a massive turtle breeding operation I would think that two large waterland tubs are a little on the small side for something like this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tRuEzVgYKQ

And last, the video that he uses a raciest term that I would think that African American to take offence too, posted on his public business youtube account.


Now I can go on and on about how I think this guy is full of BS and is lying to the public and sending out animals that ~MAY~ be misrepresented but I think that everybody in here is grown up enough to make their own conclusions.

As for the people that have positive interactions with him... Do you really think that anybody would pick up the phone and be rude to a potential customer, or anybody that will give him money? I think it is better to judge a person on HOW the act, I think that the true face of this guy is shown here, ESPICALLY the last few posts where he was given a second chance to clear the water about him and instead of saying anything positive about himself or try to get himself out of the hole he just kept on digging and not giving a damn. This is the real person behind this ‘business’ not a friendly breeder that cares more about the reptile than the money.

I think that he found his way into a plant growing business that had some extra room and is probably renting it to him... Did he build a reptile lab to breed thousands of reptiles, no... If you think he did then you need to wake up and smell the roses.

Now my official response to his email will be here for all to read.

Nick,
I will always seek to tell people the truth about you. That you are a liar, a fake and scam artist that takes advantage of people. I will post your name and any information about you that I can find.
I welcome you to come see me any time or any where, I will be at the Super Show in June. You can do anything you want to me because in the end you will get a ride to jail and I will have amazing satisfaction knowing that I put you their, I wont lift a finger.
You can say all you want about me, my business and my wife. We don’t care; we and everybody else know that you are full of $hit and probably have the cognitive power of a 3d grader. Our reputation speaks for itself, so dose yours. Anything that you post will get taken down by moderators so be my guest.

Have a great holiday season.
 
I am posting this on this thread as well, even though I put it up on the other Nick Nistico review thread (and there seems to be several). Since this is a review thread for Nick Nistico's new business Presicion Reptile Labs.... I would like anyone who is curious or thinking about purchasing from him (Presicion Reptile Labs) to read the following link posted by Florida state government:

http://www.floridaconservation.org/w...DarkForest.htm

Think long and hard before buying from this guy.
 
Vegas Chad

On a side note, Vegas Chad.... Nick made it seem like you guys were in cahoots earlier on one of these threads. He was talking about SnakeBoy12, whom worked for nick all summer and he never paid. Anyway, I think at some point Nick said something like "If you don't believe me, go ask Vegas Chad". How do you know him(nick)???
 
No, not in Cahoots

Hello, my name is Darci New. I am Vegas Chad’s wife. I know it is against the rules to post under his name but I am only going to do this once as I want to put my say in. After this, should I need to say something, I will make my own account here. I have said my name though so there should be no confusion.

We have never met Nick and never wish to. The only time him and Chad have ever spoken is when Chad called him about a video Nick made about me and posted up on YouTube. Nick has sent us several emails and continuously calls us; leaving a message tonight asking if he could buy every single one of our reptiles. We did save this message should anybody want to hear it. But other than that, we know nothing of him other than what we read from his own posts, posts by others, and things that we learn for ourselves through the Internet.

I have no idea why he thinks posting a childish video would be redemption for any supposed disrespect of himself. I have no idea why any person would post something like that about anyone, much less someone they know nothing about and have never met. I don’t know how I even got into this in the beginning, other than he knew it would make Chad upset by posting an insult to me instead of to Chad or our business. This is the first time I have ever publicly said anything about him at all.

I wish he would grow up and leave us alone and stop insulting everyone who is just making others aware by posting their opinion of him and how he does his business. We want nothing to do with Nick and think that all of this is ridiculous.
 
17-acre breeding facility?!

Also, I wanted to point this out before anyone else figures it out. When Vegas Chad was talking about his suspicion of Nick most likely finding a plant business that had extra room and is renting it to him... I instantly though "Yeah, the picture of the new place on Precision Reptile Lab's site sure had some F'ing nice land scaping." Please, take a look at their "new facility" that "they just opened" on the link below, just scroll down a bit till you see the venue(bottom of page):
http://www.precisionreptilelabs.com/

Pretty nice, right?

Then I really starting to lean towards Vegas Chad's theory, so I decided to google the address of their "New 17 acre breeding facility" and found something that I find VERY funny. Please now, check out the site below and tell me if you find anything familiar looking:

http://www.tropicalworld.com/

This fiction world that Nick lives in is a riot. Good thing he's not running out of a back room at a Walmart or something... he'd be telling us how "he just opened a multi-billion dollar facility with locations through out the nation and on the fortune 500 list". You're right Nick, "you" do have a awesome facility... the people at Tropical World should be very proud of it! Loser.
 
I WISH I read this before buying a snake from this con artist. His add says $60 snkae $40 shipping. The total was $120...um it woul dbe nice to know before you just up the shipping. Then I never got a tracking number, which I emailed all day long to get. I waited all day for the snake and it finally arrived at 8p. I asked the delivery guy when this came in and he said that afternoon. The snake should have been her that morning. I thought the snake was dead when I opened the box, but figured it was a bit cold. You could see its ribs

I left it alone for a couple days until I heard the snake wheezing from outside the cage. I opened it up and looked the snake over turns out it has a RI, obviously, Along with what looks to be scraps on its belly. I know it is my fault for not researching this guy, but I think he should learn some business ethics.

I wouldn;t feel this wayif he would return my phone calls and emails.
 
Nick the D!ck.....

I do not know how to copy an email but if anyone wishes to read them, feel free to contact me and I will forward them to you. At any rate here is a brief summary of my dealing with Nick at Precision Reptile Labs

On November 8, 2008 I contact them concerning a wholesale lot of mid level corns I have available. Within 5 minutes Nick responds back asking if I am "Sasquatches'" friend and where I am located. I respond back that I m not and that I am located in SC. That same night he asks what I have available and advises that he is interested and wants me to send a full list of what I have available.
We agree that I will contact him the next day to discuss what I have and a possible deal.

November 9, 2008 I call and he immediately answers. We discuss what I have and agree on a price for the entire package. He says I can ship to the address on his email signature and I advise I will send him a paypal invoice the next day for the $900.00 total.

November 10, 2008 I try several times to contact him to advise there is an problem with my paypal account and for him to send the money via USP money order. I never get an answer or response o my voice mails. That evening I email him twice concerning the invoice and my inability to send it via pay pal. He responds to the first email and asks if I can receive payment via credit card over the phone. I mail back and advise I can not and just to forward the money order. No further communications that evening.

November 12, 2008 I receive no responses to email or voice mail.

November 13, 2008 I forward another message asking if we still have a deal or not. No responses.

About every other day I would call or mail to try and make contact. At this point I am sure the deal is dead, I just want the satisfaction of a professional response.

November 17, 2008

I leave a voice mail asking them to call or email me and tell me to go to hell, sorry there has been an issue that prevented them from responding, just some kind of a response would be appreciated.

Unbelievable Nick answers the phone on November 19, 2008. He says he is very sorry that he had turned it over to his partner Gary and didn't know Gary wasn't responding to the calls and emails. Funny though, during the conversation he asks if I have the pay pal account issue corrected. Suprisingly he didn't know Gary wasn't responding but he knew there was an issue with my account, lol. At any rate he advises me to forward him a pay pal invoice and we verify his email address. Suprise suprise, he never paid the invoice.

I would steer as far away from this place as possible and the same goes for all future incarnations he is involved in. Same goes for his partner Gary (if there truly is one). Sorry Gary if you are reading this but "guilt by association" applies here.

Thanks for reading and if you get into business with these guys and it goes bad, then blame no one but yourself

dc
 
Nick never went to Madagascar. ANOTHER flag. He has animals posted up as captive born and bred such as blue tongues and croc skinks while they are both around from importers. Nick says hes on a 17 acre facility, but his website says its 8 acres. He told a friend of mine he had red eyed tree frogs in stock, and when he got there, Nick said he had sold them to a local pet store, and after checking everything out we found this store never had them. You will also find, justin, that nick's previous business was under several tax leins. If your dealings with nick are satisfactory for you, then by all means continue dealing with him. Just remember, animals can't bite you if you don't let them.
 
Tropical World is a plant buisness that owns the property that Nick claims to be their "facility". Tropical World has a 17 acre property there, a smaller one elsewhere in Florida, and a massive one in Mexico. I emailed the owner of TW a few times and he's a heck of a nice guy. He told me that Nick is just renting an area in one of their many green houses. He also said that Jerry Abel is a real guy and he's the one financing the whole Presicion Reptile Labs thing (which is funny because earlier nick was claiming how he doesn't need financial help). Man, this Nick guy just never tells the truth.
 
Tropical World is a plant buisness that owns the property that Nick claims to be their "facility". Tropical World has a 17 acre property there, a smaller one elsewhere in Florida, and a massive one in Mexico. I emailed the owner of TW a few times and he's a heck of a nice guy. He told me that Nick is just renting an area in one of their many green houses. He also said that Jerry Abel is a real guy and he's the one financing the whole Presicion Reptile Labs thing (which is funny because earlier nick was claiming how he doesn't need financial help). Man, this Nick guy just never tells the truth.

Did you advice TW concerning this running post and Precision Reptile Labs responses and reputation? I am not sure of the legal ramifications, but they might would want to check into his current legal issues to be sure it can not affect them since he rents from them.

dc
 
Well that's a good thing considering Nick has more experience and education than 85% of this entire forum.

More experience at screwing his customers and workers.

This is about Nick Nistico "Dark forest reptiles" now known as "Precison reptile labs" Nick Nistico...Who is he?...I'll tell u!He is a backstabber, a-hole and an idiot. I used to work for Nick for about 8 months and started workin for rats and when it got to the summer he agreed to pay me for 3 days a week and 8 hours a day throughout the summer...he never was at the shop to even pay me and would never answer his calls ad his texts..some jerk right. alright...he finally got home from wherever he was hiding and all I got for the whole summer is $100...Wow. for 33 days of work and 8 hours per each day of my devotion to "DFR" and workin my A*S off for him. Thats all I got. So when the store finally closed down Nick Sorta layed low for a while and left for a bit..Kinda disappearing..Anyway, I finally contacted him and told him he needs to pay me. ever since then he has been sending me dirty messages and not paying me..so now we are suing him and a lawyer said that he owes me $1800 and now we are still in the process of suing him as I write this to you.. For those of you who want to buy something from him....Please do not fall in to the same trap that I did and stay away from this Thing (NICK) he doesnt even treat his animals good and he thinks he is above you and has no respect for his customers and employees.. so please WARNING... Nick Nistico "Precision Reptile labs"
Ps. Im only 15...What A Jerk!!!!!


Nick posted an add for common snappers wanted. We had a mexican common snapper that was on his list of animals that he wanted. We sent him pictures of the animal and he agreed to send us an adult male red footed tortoise, male giant blazing blizzard, 2 unsexed giant baby blazing blizzards, 1.3 captive bred tokay geckoes. We asked for pictures and paperwork to prove they were giants and never recieved any. We agreed to ship the same day. The carrier that we used to send out the snapper lost the package which was no fault of each of ours but he didn't send out until he got the package. We were worried about the animal since the hold up of the animal and he never let us know it got there ok until several days later. He didn't ship out the same day. He shipped out a baby redfoot. The baby blizzards turned out to be a leucistic and we have yet to find out if it really is a giant or not. He used references that have no clue who he is. He never sent out our tokays. He shipped out two days instead of overnight. He never gave us a tracking number. He shipped out a lot later then he said he would. He doesn't return calls or e-mails. He even hung up on us when we finally got in touch with us. He claimed to be a certified Fed-Ex shipper which he is not. He basically went out of his way to screw us over it seemed. I would never do business with him again. The person he used as a reference was so angry that they asked for his contact information and chewed him out for using his name to screw people over. I would never do business with him again and if I am ever in Florida I would love to pay him a visit.
Lary Vongsavanh

A few months ago they had an ad on kingsnake for a 9-10 ft male lavender albino retic for $1000 shipped. The animals was pretty much exactly what we were looking for at the time so we contacted them to inquire about the animal. After asking a few questions via email we were satisfied and went ahead and called and orded him and set up shipping for the next Monday. We had requested that the animal be shipped FedEx overnight as this is who we use. Everything during the phone conversations was fine and he even said the he would ship priority overnight. On Monday he called to confirm our shipping address and said he would call back shortly with a tracking number and to confirm the shipment. We waited to hear from him again, but he never called back with the shipping info. Not being overly concerned we didn't try to call back that day and figured that he just forgot and everything was still on for the next mornings delivery. The following day we were up early expecting the package to arrive before 10:30 being that it was supposedly shipped priority. 10:30 passed with no package and we assumed that either FedEx was late or he shipped standard overnight instead, which was no big deal. That afternoon we started to get a little worried so we called to try and get the tracking number. The person that picked up said that he had just left for lunch and to call back shortly, so we waited an hour or so and tried again. Calling for the second time we got pretty much the same response that we had just missed him, but we inquired about the shipment anyway and were told that the package was defiantly shipped the night before. By 6:00 that evening no package arrived and we assumed that FedEx had been at fault. Being that late in the day we decided to call FedEx first thing the next morning to inquire.

The next morning we called FedEx and told them that we had a package coming from us that should of been delivered the previous day. We gave them our address and they preceded to look up any packages that were headed our way. The lady on the phone said that their was no overnight shipments to us but their was one 2 Day shipment. We asked for the origin of that package and sure enough it was our albino due to arrive that day by 3:00. By this time we were extremely upset that we had been lied too and only hoped that the animal was ok. That afternoon around 2:00 the package finally arrived and we held our breath opening the box. Lucky the retic was alive but right off the bat we noticed that he had a fairly large population of mites on him and more disturbing a tick on his neck about the size of a pencil eraser.

Mites do suck but the fact that their was a large tick on him that had obviously been on him for awhile and was easily noticeable really angered us, not to mention he shipped 2 Day after telling us he would ship priority overnight and never calling us back after trying to contact him. We did the math and he saved about $25 sending it 2 Day instead of priority overnight. We would never send any reptile 2 Day, but this was a $1000 dollar animal. Bottom line this guy has no regard for the animals he's selling and is someone we certainly will not deal with again.

Sorry for the long post, below is a picture of the shipping label showing the 2 Day shipping method.



hello my name is Pete martinez and i was also ripped off by nick at darkforest reptiles aswell about 2 months ago i sent him 2 female retics i was trading for a boa and he failed to ship the boa to me and i lost out on 2 snakes he refused to answer calls aswell he is a thief and i also offer a warning to those thinking of dealing with him
I have a friend who just bought a pair of his Het CalicoX 100% het albino animals on Kingsnake, and was totally disappointed. Not only was the female not the one he sent pics of, but he said that they had probably never eaten since they were so small, and from what I saw of them they had probably not even had their first shed when they were shipped. He has since sent them back, and now cannot get a hold of him probably due to the hurricane, but no refund has been given yet. He can reach him when he calls from his girlfriends phone, but when he calls from his phone, he(Nick) will not answer.

This is just what I know based on a deal a friend of mine did with him. I have seen the animals, and know the story, but these are not my animals.

Jason Trott

Nick posted an add for common snappers wanted. We had a mexican common snapper that was on his list of animals that he wanted. We sent him pictures of the animal and he agreed to send us an adult male red footed tortoise, male giant blazing blizzard, 2 unsexed giant baby blazing blizzards, 1.3 captive bred tokay geckoes. We asked for pictures and paperwork to prove they were giants and never recieved any. We agreed to ship the same day. The carrier that we used to send out the snapper lost the package which was no fault of each of ours but he didn't send out until he got the package. We were worried about the animal since the hold up of the animal and he never let us know it got there ok until several days later. He didn't ship out the same day. He shipped out a baby redfoot. The baby blizzards turned out to be a leucistic and we have yet to find out if it really is a giant or not. He used references that have no clue who he is. He never sent out our tokays. He shipped out two days instead of overnight. He never gave us a tracking number. He shipped out a lot later then he said he would. He doesn't return calls or e-mails. He even hung up on us when we finally got in touch with us. He claimed to be a certified Fed-Ex shipper which he is not. He basically went out of his way to screw us over it seemed. I would never do business with him again. The person he used as a reference was so angry that they asked for his contact information and chewed him out for using his name to screw people over. I would never do business with him again and if I am ever in Florida I would love to pay him a visit.
Lary Vongsavanh

A few months ago they had an ad on kingsnake for a 9-10 ft male lavender albino retic for $1000 shipped. The animals was pretty much exactly what we were looking for at the time so we contacted them to inquire about the animal. After asking a few questions via email we were satisfied and went ahead and called and orded him and set up shipping for the next Monday. We had requested that the animal be shipped FedEx overnight as this is who we use. Everything during the phone conversations was fine and he even said the he would ship priority overnight. On Monday he called to confirm our shipping address and said he would call back shortly with a tracking number and to confirm the shipment. We waited to hear from him again, but he never called back with the shipping info. Not being overly concerned we didn't try to call back that day and figured that he just forgot and everything was still on for the next mornings delivery. The following day we were up early expecting the package to arrive before 10:30 being that it was supposedly shipped priority. 10:30 passed with no package and we assumed that either FedEx was late or he shipped standard overnight instead, which was no big deal. That afternoon we started to get a little worried so we called to try and get the tracking number. The person that picked up said that he had just left for lunch and to call back shortly, so we waited an hour or so and tried again. Calling for the second time we got pretty much the same response that we had just missed him, but we inquired about the shipment anyway and were told that the package was defiantly shipped the night before. By 6:00 that evening no package arrived and we assumed that FedEx had been at fault. Being that late in the day we decided to call FedEx first thing the next morning to inquire.

The next morning we called FedEx and told them that we had a package coming from us that should of been delivered the previous day. We gave them our address and they preceded to look up any packages that were headed our way. The lady on the phone said that their was no overnight shipments to us but their was one 2 Day shipment. We asked for the origin of that package and sure enough it was our albino due to arrive that day by 3:00. By this time we were extremely upset that we had been lied too and only hoped that the animal was ok. That afternoon around 2:00 the package finally arrived and we held our breath opening the box. Lucky the retic was alive but right off the bat we noticed that he had a fairly large population of mites on him and more disturbing a tick on his neck about the size of a pencil eraser.

Mites do suck but the fact that their was a large tick on him that had obviously been on him for awhile and was easily noticeable really angered us, not to mention he shipped 2 Day after telling us he would ship priority overnight and never calling us back after trying to contact him. We did the math and he saved about $25 sending it 2 Day instead of priority overnight. We would never send any reptile 2 Day, but this was a $1000 dollar animal. Bottom line this guy has no regard for the animals he's selling and is someone we certainly will not deal with again.

Sorry for the long post, below is a picture of the shipping label showing the 2 Day shipping method.

I just found some of the same problems posted in RepticZone forums. Apparently some of the members there got hosed by Nick as well. Don't buy from this guy. I can't imagine that the results will be pretty.

Nick is the biggest jerk you'll ever meet. He is a liar and a crook. Do NOT buy anything from him ever! I'll bet my life you'll regret it!

Dark Forest Reptiles is an absolutely awful and abysmal establishment at best. An absolute torture to do business with. Aside from their negligent photos of Pacman frogs eating dead and bloated pacman frogs (obvious victimes of redleg) on their website, they take even less care in shipping live animals. I ordered a Budgett's frog from them and it arrived in an uncooled and lacklusterly packaged box. No significant padding was used to secure the flailing deli cup, no ice packs, nothing. Mind you, this was from Florida to Arizona, the hottest state in the union. The package also came at 3pm, not 10:30am as they promised, they knew damn well the frog wasn't shipped next day prioriry, rather basic next day, allowing the fragile creature to boil to death. I tried countless times to get tracking numbers and to simply contact someone in regards to my rights as their customer, and Nick, the owner, would just ignore me and say he'd call me back or send me an email, then mysteriously vanish for the rest of the day every time I called back... Needless to say I never got a response. It was like pulling teeth just to get some common courtesy out of these clowns.
When I finally got in touch, he RUDELY (as if I should feel guilty about complaining about his halfassed business ethics and disgusting packaging) said he'd send a replacement frog....and never did, rather he refunded my money without telling me and lead my on a wild goose chase waiting for a frog that never came.

I highly suggest you NEVER buy from Dark Forest Reptiles. I know I'm not the only person to have had negative experiences with them, and I surely wouldn't wish it upon anyone. The biggest shame is that so many animals have to be subjected to such atrocious treatment....I mean no precautions where taken in the shipping of this poor, living, breathing animal. A true pity.

Good riddance to bad rubbish!

I ordered a male green Anaconda from these jokers, and it was the worst experience. He was shipped out on Mon. July 23, and he was supposed to be delivered the next day before 7:00pm. Well, on Tues. I entered my tracking number and the website said he was scheduled to arrive 2nd day air!! I called Nick, and he looked on the Fed-Ex website and saw that he was being shipped second day air. He told me he would make a call and call me RIGHT back. Well, I waited for at least an hour, and no call. I called him back again, and he said he was waiting for a call back, but that they said a lot of the time the computer info. is inaccurate. He said he would still arrive by 7:eek:opm. I eventually called Fed-Ex back and it was apparent that he wasn't getting here until Wed. sometime. I was pretty mad by this time, and called back and had to talk to a guy (Brian) I think. He told me Nick had left for the day. I voiced my concern about the snake, because the weather has been soo hot here. He assured me that snakes can withstand temps. of 150 degrees and that he would be fine. Okay, so there isn't a living animal, except for certain forms of bacteria that can take that temp. for any length of time. He claimed neither he or Nick shipped the animal 2nd day air, and that the error was made by Fed-Ex. I then asked if I would get my money back if the animal arrived dead. He said they don't give cash back, and that they would get me another snake. I told him I didn't want another snake, and that if he was dead, I didn't want to do business with them. He then told me to not get irate with him. As you can see, this was going nowhere. He kept talking over me, and I couldn't get a word in anywhere. He gave me alot of false information. I hung up on him, and prayed my snake would make it here alive. He arrived today, Wed. and he's okay. Apart from being mad because he's in shed, he looks like he's in pretty good shape. I would definitely not do business with these losers again. I hope he really is a male, because I didn't want a female. Also, I think they owe me something, because 2nd day air doesn't cost as much. I paid $300 for this boy. Does anyone think I should gripe at Nick further? I really don't want to talk to anyone there again, but this experience has made me mad! They are not trustworthy, so please avoid them if you can. -Amy
FWC cites exotic-pet shop owner; seizes reptiles

Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) investigators took action against "Dark Forest Reptiles," an exotic-pet store in Boynton Beach, and cited the owner.

Nickolas Nistico, DOB 10/15/82, of Boynton Beach, was charged with three violations: possessing an American alligator without a permit, possessing reptiles of concern without a permit and exhibiting and selling without a permit. Mr. Nistico also received a warning for improper housing of an American alligator.

On Aug. 6, FWC investigators attempted to inspect Nistico’s store but found the Boynton Beach store vacated. Later, they found the store at another location, in Delray Beach.

Officers found the store open for business and Nistico exhibiting reptiles with an expired permit at an unpermitted location.

Nistico was in possession of a 3-foot alligator, which was caged in a manner giving the public easy access. He also was exhibiting a reticulated python without a permit.

FWC officers seized both reptiles.

Under the Wildlife Violator Compact, Nistico could face enhanced penalties, because he has been convicted of wildlife law violations in the past. Penalties could include a maximum $1,000 fine and a year in jail for each violation.

sorry about my 2 different post i have a brother named justin who used my account however im the one that posted on darkforest reptiles an nick nistico i have tried contacting nick by phone an by email he ignores my emails an phone calls as well this is no jok i bought a crocodile monitor from him that he basically lied about having an never sent me he then advertsied this same animal 2 weeks later for sale on kingsnake.com monitor classifieds thats pretty much the story
best regaurds Jason willand

I Turned Nick Nistico into kingsnake they sent me a mail order Fraud forum i filled out i also spoke with Ray Sr at strictly reptiles an ray told me to shoot him an email an said he might be able to do somthin about what nick did to me what that was i will never know however if i ever see Nick nistico face to face all beat the stuffing right outa him for what that scumbag did to me hes a miserable Excuse for a Human Life an he doesint deserve to be in the Herp community period i basically sent him 2 western union money orders one for 500.00 an the other for 75.00 once he cashed both money orders he then told me he shipped out the crocodile monitor an i would recieve it within 2 days which would have been a wednesday well wednesday came around i called him up an he told me that brian his buddy that works at dark Forest reptiles was Bit by a 7ft croc monitor they also had on hand in the store at that time an that they were moving the 7ft croc he claimed the 7ft croc monitor bit brian through the bag it was in an that brian had to go to the hospital so he said he would ship it out the following monday the crocodile monitor he had gotton for me was 36inches from tip of the snout to tip of the tail. thats the lie he was telling me then monday came around i couldint get ahold of him until wednesday then wednesday he told me he finally shipped it out an it would be arriving at my house friday before 3:00 pm friday came around an there was never a delivery i called the scumbag back up on the phone 2 days Later an he told me there was a mistake on the shipping so he Claimed that it showed back up at his shop an he would reship it so anyway he supposedly reshipped it the following wednesday an told me the same story the Following wednesday he told me the first time that it would be Reshipped TO my house via fed ex before 3:00 never showed up once again pretty much at that point i figured out that i was scammed by this Lowlife i called better business buroe i also turned him into the attorney generals office an the fish an game wild life thats about all i can do or take nick to small claims court however that would cost too much money to do
 
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