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I just posted this on their wall:
Evan Swanson: See? If you actually read everything we've been saying on our forums then you would see that you are being scammed. Please for your own safety do not bid. Do you think that it's a coincidence that his friend won the auction? It was said that she won the auction but is okay with the animal being put back for auction. Why is this? She's in on it too! At the least this is very suspicious. A funny thing happened the other day, when the timer hit 0:00 it was reset to ONE HOUR! Even if this was not a scam, which it is, what you're doing is extremely unethical. Every time Avi posts on BP.net he raises more red flags. You might have some people fooled but our community is not falling for it and you are an eyesore to our hobby, our business, our passion and our way of life. Please do us all a favor and stop what you're doing right now. Find some other way to make money besides degrading this wonderful business with what you are doing.
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there up and runn.....scamming again:rolleyes:
spooky

I'm SO excited! I got FIVE free bids just for signing up!!! I think I'll use them all now at the same time on the same product!!!!!! I don't think anyone will be "bidding" on these snakes, at least I hope not. Maybe they will lose the two snakes they have up to people who use their free bids, that way they make no money at all. I hope the snakes sell for $0.07.....and go to a home where they will be well taken care of. That way its a win-win. They lose money, and someone gets a snake "hopefully".

"I do hope you all know I'm kidding about the whole excited about 5 free bids thing." I signed up to see what all goes on. I won't support this congressman. Wait....he IS part of congress right?

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Originally Posted by pigfat

I'm SO excited! I got FIVE free bids just for signing up!!! I think I'll use them all now at the same time on the same product!!!!!! I don't think anyone will be "bidding" on these snakes, at least I hope not. Maybe they will lose the two snakes they have up to people who use their free bids, that way they make no money at all. I hope the snakes sell for $0.07.....and go to a home where they will be well taken care of. That way its a win-win. They lose money, and someone gets a snake "hopefully".

"I do hope you all know I'm kidding about the whole excited about 5 free bids thing." I signed up to see what all goes on. I won't support this congressman. Wait....he IS part of congress right?

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When you signed up, did you give them your real personal information?

If these guys are running some sort of scam, I wouldn't want them knowing my real name, birth date or email.

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Originally Posted by alkibp

When you signed up, did you give them your real personal information?

If these guys are running some sort of scam, I wouldn't want them knowing my real name, birth date or email.

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fake name, fake birthdate, and a new email that I added today just for this purpose lol.

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Originally Posted by AGoldReptiles

Everyone here is doing a great job at pointing out there lies and deceptions. I would just like to add that I will "Blacklist" ANYONE who provides these individuals with animals for there shady practices.
Anthony

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I'm with you on this one :gj:

Another thing I have noticed, is that every time someone bids, its supposed to add 15 seconds to the clock right? Look how every clock on all the "auctions" are on the exact same...is it just chance that someone is bidding on all 5 at the exact same time?

Usark just put up a link on their facebbok page about ballbids saying

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If you have LIKED BallBids.com... UNLIKE them NOW! They are BAD NEWS!

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Originally Posted by AGoldReptiles

I love this hobby/community. Thanks to everyone who outed these greedy individuals who want to prey on the ignorant and naive to line there pockets.:salute:

Everyone here is doing a great job at pointing out there lies and deceptions. I would just like to add that I will "Blacklist" ANYONE who provides these individuals with animals for there shady practices.

These are living creatures that they are treating like laptops. Support BREEDERS who work hard to provide quality animals, not some computer savy (not really) individual and a newb who does not even understand basic husbandry that want to prey on the ignorant.

Anthony

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Originally Posted by snakesRkewl

I'm with you on this one :gj:

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I haven't read the entire thread and I don't support this scam at all but I wanted to comment on this. I think you should take care in who you decide to blacklist. It's possible that a breeder unknowing sold an animal to them or they will claim it came from someone it didn't or it might even be the second/third/etc... time the animal has changed hands. I would like to believe that no one with any once of respect for their animals would knowing participate in this and supply their animals for auction.

USARK just posted on their facebook page.

As posted on Facebook!

USARK (United States Association of Reptile Keepers)
"If you have LIKED BallBids.com... UNLIKE them NOW! They are BAD NEWS!"