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    Sorry to hear mate :(.... that site is known for scammers, as a general rule ill never buy from someone (on any site ebay,gumtree etc) that has just started an account as this scumbag has.
     
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    Yep live and learn.I now dont have enough money to buy one.Start saving again i suppose.
     
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    never send money in advance,cash in exchange on site only is the only way to beat scammers
     
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    Sorry to hear that happened to you :(
    Did you use PayPal? They encourage people to call the police in these types of situations, maybe the person can be tracked?
     
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    I've just sent a message to them asking if my husband and I can come and have a look at them. LOL
     
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    I messaged about pick up too. He gave me an address for collection.
     
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    Amazing all these gtp breeders popping up out of nowhere. Lol @ the 1st one, dont need a license hey... clearly both sellers are 1 and same...
     
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    anyone at rdu you can report this to?
     
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    Reported to RDU as suspicious, up to them now. Again will happily offer apologies if ads are legit.......
     
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    ikr its the same scummy c%&* in all of em read the messages..
     
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    There was another one selling a perentie last week. I sent him a msg using words i don't even know what i was on about. But i told him i was from somewhere i wasn't and that we were tracking him and would have his adress shortly. He took it down pretty quickly. I quite often play with them and upset them a bit.

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    All three ads reported again. @MatE
     
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    There certainly does seem to be a lot of strange ads for Green Tree Pythons coming and going on RDU of late.
     
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    Yeh all the same guy. He gets agro too when u tell him he's a a low life scumbag. Ive suggested a few times that he should get a job rather than rip off people that work for a living. I told him id throw him a couple of bucks if he could wash my bins. I'm not sure he's in to physical work tho because he was a bit upset

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    Its been taken down. I saw that one today. Starts a new add every few days on a new name. I do like to watch rdu. However i won't buy off anyone who opened there account on the same day. Unless i can pick them up. I also do an extensive search on the Internet for the pics. A guy had a perentie up the other day. The pic was taken at joe balls it was his perentie.

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