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12-12-2008, 07:53 PM | #11 |
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Like everyone has said this is a scam through and through. The scammers don't actually have any of the items they have for sale. It ranges from everything alive to cars to people
All they are after is money, pure and simple. Stay far far away from anything like this. Jonathan, I know the person your talking about in Turkey. He is very well known in turtle and tortoise circles. Don't think it was the cheap prices that got him to Turkey, he got in a bit of trouble in Germany. He though is legitimately breeding tortoises in Turkey. Danny
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12-12-2008, 08:49 PM | #12 |
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it is deffinately a scam, i have witnessed things like this in the parrot world!!!!! if its to good to be true.....it usually is!!!!!!
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19-12-2008, 05:23 PM | #13 |
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I think this needs looking into by Defra, or some organisation with power - police maybe - It is screaming out as fraud to me.
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29-12-2008, 12:49 AM | #14 |
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Thanks Danny for that nugget of information about the 'German guy'. I was offered tortoises that were being imported by a company that were getting torts from this man so I looked into it. Although I hadn't heard about him being in trouble I decided I didn't have sufficient knoweldge about the conditions the animals are kept in etc. Someone pointed out as well that some of the breeding animals were wild caught - at least it looked that way in the photos.
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29-12-2008, 09:16 AM | #15 |
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This scamming has been around for a couple of years now, dont touch it with a ten foot barge pole.
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29-12-2008, 10:39 AM | #16 |
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Yep, this post comes up on loads of forums far too regularly! It is a filthy SCAM!
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