Cletus Marley
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This place brings out the worse in people. It's sad.
Thomas, I agree with almost 100% of what you posted, however, I think that the $3000 was more what Michelle wanted. I will post a little of what I am talking about from the post by Michelle of their conversation. I think Ty was going to send her a purple, but that is only my opinion. I think when Michelle said he could not be trusted, his raffle felt shady and scammy, she made a mistake. This is only my opinion, most disagree.
Casey why do you put all the responsibility on the OP? In every one of your posts you say she should be nicer, she should just accept what Ty does, she should have just sent her address. She is the customer in this situation Ty is the "seller" Ty already raised all his money for the charity and then changed the prize. She had the winning ticket and has every right to ask where its coming from. Why are you not all over Ty for being petty and not just telling her what he was sending. If he had said I'm sending you and the other winners purples because that's all I produced this would be over he'd look like the hero he seems to think he is, and everybody's happy.
At the very beginning of the thread, Casey did say that he thought Mr. Park handled this wrong. I don't think that he's necessarily putting all of the responsibility on Michelle so much as pointing out what he believes were her misteps - in essence, what I take from Casey's posts is that he is trying to play devil's advocate to point out that there's multiple sides to every story. In the end, while I do not agree with most of what he has said, I do think it's important to consider that what he says might very well be also what Mr. Park is thinking, and dismissing those thoughts isn't going to help Michelle get a resolution.
Bare minimum, I think it does show the kind of thinking on the other side of the fence, which is important to understand in trying to reach an agreement.
Post #1 correspondence. Ty solicits his unsuspecting victim. His exact words. "How many of you would be interested if "I" ran an on-line raffle for a baby albino "blue" Tegu to be delivered in July?...if for any reason "I" do not produce any albino this year (chance of this will be almost none) I would pay the winner $3000 out of MY OWN POCKET. Where is the grey area here?
The Grey area is the word "produce." Does it mean breed in the eye of the law? I do not produce any albino, could mean I am not able obtain an albino this year.
I will be a better poster. Online posting does bring out the worse in me. I regret most if not all of the remarks I have made.
The Grey area is the word "produce." Does it mean breed in the eye of the law? I do not produce any albino, could mean I am not able obtain an albino this year.
I will be a better poster. Online posting does bring out the worse in me. I regret most if not all of the remarks I have made.
ill also give an example of deception:
EXAMPLE:
1) you buy a captive born tegu produced by XXX seller through the classifieds. you pay, all is good, it ships. it arrives.
2) you contact the seller about the condition of the tegu which you now see is wild caught, scars, parasites, yada yada whatever.
3) you ask for a refund because it is clearly wild caught.
4) seller says "i produced one for you (out of thin air, cough cough) and sent it. nothing wrong there".
5) you upset now???? seller produced it right?!
6) my point exactly!!!
But the seller produced a wild caught produce, not a captive born tegu produce, not the same. Now if 1) said, you buy a tegu produced by XXX seller through the classifieds, then I would be like damn, that was my fault for not asking.
Us reptiles folks understand the word "produce" it doesn't mean it has the same meaning in a legal document.
This is a serious question. Out of all the times ty has raffles or auctioned off a reptile to help a non profit. Has he ever auctioned or raffled off an undesclosed breeders or even one that he did not produce at his farm because as far back as I looked I had. It seen any
False advertising maybe