There are no laws regarding animals that don’t exist. But as has been pointed out to you, selling something that doesn’t exist is fraud. That’s why I’m protecting you by making the terms cash on delivery. You don’t have to risk engaging in fraudulent activity. You just have to get a hoop snake and deliver it to me to collect the reward. You are continuing to waste time. You have a legal no risk method of collecting $10,000. If you or your friends knew where a hoop snake was you’d be out looking for it right now. Since you indicate you aren’t, there isn’t any reason to believe you or your friends are doing anything but trying to pull off a con.
Again, PM I’ll send you my Skype account name shortly before 12 Noon Eastern Time tomorrow. Think of a really good story that we can laugh at. But I’ll answer most of your questions right now: No, I will not give you a single penny before you deliver a hoop snake, and no I will not spend a penny on anything else until you deliver a hoop snake.
I mean seriously dude, you didn’t even bother to make a fake video. At least put a little effort into it.
Oh I see…now I understand…you think we’re gonna rip you off? surely just because you posted a reward then you think you can act arrogantly like that. Ok tripolar dude, hope this satisfies you. We don’t want any funds from our hunt. We don’t want anybody to send money for our expenses, shipping or anything like that. The expenses for the hunt and anything like that is our problem, not yours. We just would like to confirm who you really are since it’s business we are talking here. I suppose you get my point right?..
Not really. I have the money, you have nothing. You’re the one who will have to confirm who you are. Seriously, do you know anything about conducting business, or a scam?
Ok now you’re talking Tripolar dude. We’re gonna chat tomorrow. By the way I’m Asia, Philippines so on what time should we base? I assume you live in US, right?
Well, your posts do have many of the hallmarks of classic scams. Furthermore, your insistence on “confirming who x is” before proceeding is bafflingly obtuse; it makes no sense unless you are trying to scam someone.
That’s not an insult of some kind, just an observation that it certainly looks like some kind of scam attempt, which is why people are suspicious.
Well, I’m going to have a chat with Tripolar dude tomorrow. Anyway I’ll still be updating my thread here if there are still comments. You will certainly find out tomorrow whether we are legit or not…
Yes, fictional friends, like fictional snakes, cannot appeal to board rules. O’course for all we know, Czarc was right, and** hajario**'s friend was an idiot.** hajario**, did your friend go hunting for a hoop snake?
You telling us whether or not you accept the offer does nothing to show us you are legit-that can only be accomplished by showing up with the merchandise.
If I knew where a stash of hoop snakes were, this would be my approach.
First, I’d contact an actual herpatologist. You know, a snake specialist. Surely the Phillippines aren’t so backwards there are no actual herpatologists around. If not, I’m sure there are some in Japan, or New Zealand, or Australia who would be dying to see an actual hoop snake, that forms a ring and rolls.
Next, I’d arrange an outing to take said herpatologist out to the area where these hoop snakes are apparently so common that everyone has seen one. I mean, surely they’re that abundant, it should be reasonably easy to show it to a herpatologist in the wild. No need to capture for the first round, thus demonstrate an actual, live hoop snake forming a hoop and rolling. Seems easy peasy.
Next, said herpatologist could start spreading the word via professional channels. Herpatologist lines up a grant to study said snakes, and acquire a few.
Next the world comes beating down on the Phillippines looking for said hoop snakes. Start selling tours, selling snakes, whatever the market will bear.
Finally, Profit.
None of this involves 50 year old dead claims for money, or identifying the actual name and address of someone on an internet message board.
First of all, it all works fine for me. But even if it doesn’t work for you, the email addresses are exposed, so you can just cut and paste them.
Oh, and there’s no such thing as a hoop snake. Hell, show me a living snake and make it, unassisted, in my presence, form itself into a vertical hoop and roll under its own power, still as a hoop, and I’ll give you $10,000.
Hey hotdog, see that post above this one? You can make $20,000 off of one snake now. And you’re not out hunting right now? Dude, you’ll never make any money that way.