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Inquiry on Nick from Dark Forest Reptiles

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Just curious if anyone has done business with him. I am in the middle of a deal with him right now. I can't get a hold of him right now but he is in Florida so i hope everything is okay. I am sure the transaction will go just fine, I just wanted to know if anyone has done any business 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
 
Sorry, just had to add that the animal that he is selling are not double het calico, albino. They are het calico poss het albino. The breeding was calico to het albino, but the paperwork he sends says that they are het calico het albino. That is enough for me to not want to do business with him. If he is selling them as hets, then in my opinion he does not know enough about genetics.

Personally I would never buy from him.

Jason
 
I'm interested in some Morelia he has but, this seems to be his only feedback...
Anyone deal with him recently?
 
Same here, has anyone done any business with this guy? GOOD, BAD, KINDA, SORTA, BOTH? I am looking at some animals too, and would like some info?? ANYONE, ANYONE????
Thanks,
Jason Chapman
 
Yea Nick is the absolute biggest asshole you'll ever meet. He's a lying, money hungry jerk who only cares about himself, not the aminals. Poor conditions, mites on all his snakes. Did I mention he's a hell of a liar?
 
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!
 
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
 
Bad Guy

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.
 

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was researching this dealer

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.
 
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