Buyer Beware!!!!!!!!!!!!

Author Subject: Buyer Beware!!!!!!!!!!!!
M&S Posted At 18:24:29 10/31/2000


I purchased an adult male Peruvian Redtail from a guy named "Bob Soblonski" , August of '99. He was asking $250 for the proven breeder but readily accepted $200 . I was always looking for a deal, "WAS"!!!!! I have learned my lesson a 100 times over!!!! After only 10 days of owning the snake he DIED. I took the animal to the vet the next morning after it spent the night in the refrigerator, not putting it in the freezer because I did not want any tissue damage. The lab results came back 100% positive for I.B.D and HOOK WORM. The animal also had bleeding in its throat. The VET assured me that the animal had been sick for some amount of time, as the snake's internal organs were overcome with inclusion bodies. The VET I used is a well known reptile vet in Southern Ca., owning a large number of reptiles himself. While I observed the animal before the purchase he seemed fine. I noticed no abnormalities.

I then proceeded to contact "Bob" about the issue, he could not believe that the Boa had died in 10 days. He said he had the snake for 4 years and it ate great. He also said that he was expecting a litter from his female that was bred by this male. He proclaimed to say the snake had got the disease from my collection. I know of no disease that can kill a healthy snake within 10 short days. At the time all of my animals were long term captives . Also the new Boa was in quarantine and did not come in contact with any of my collection. To this day, he has never made good on the situation. All I wanted from him was my $200 back and his admittance of selling an animal he knew to be very ill. I did not expect to get refunded the $180 I spent on a necropsy, cultures and tissue tests. The only thing Bob offered me was a $200 credit on the purchase of some of his expected offspring. (If I purchased a pair!!) Like I am going to give this guy anymore of my money!

"Bob" has been trying to sell his Peruvians for a few months now, believe me I have tried my hardest to let people know about him by word of mouth or by the net. HE HAS CHANGED HIS NAME EVERY TIME HE HAS POSTED HIS ANIMALS ON "KINGSNAKE.COM" . He goes by "Robert Lee" & "Bob Leigh" & "Robert Leigh" and "Bob Lee. He also changes his point of locale from either "Monrovia, Ca." or "Glendora,Ca." and "San Dimas,Ca."

HIS REAL NAME IS "BOB SOBLONSKI" from Glendora, Ca.

Thanks,

Please feel free to pass this information around. IBD is a very serious threat to herpers and it could have wiped out my whole collection if the necessary precautions had not been taken!!!!!




Webmaster Re: Buyer Beware!!!!!!!!!!!! (Currently 0 replies)
Posted At 21:17:47 10/31/2000

This is about as close to an anonymous message as you can get and still be
borderline. Emails from hotmail, yahoo and the like are basically anonymous as
far as I am concerned.

Put your name on it or it will be deleted.

Also, please read the rule about putting the name of the person or business the
message is about in the subject line. I'm not likely to put a keyword search in this
forum so no one will read about this guy unless they have the patience to read through
nearly EVERY message here.

Are the rules I posted really that hard to understand?
ahlane Re: Buyer Beware!!!!!!!!!!!! (Currently 0 replies)
Posted At 08:28:59 11/01/2000

thank you for the information....
i will certainly be aware of this bob guy
thanks again

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