Daniel Strong aka "monkeybread" on GeckoForums - any experiences with them?

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No sorry Kelli, but Monkey bread, also called sticky bread, African coffee cake, golden crown, pinch-me cake, bubbleloaf and monkey brains is a sticky, gooey pastry served in the United States for breakfast. The origin of the term monkey bread is uncertain. Possible etymologies include that the bread resembles the monkey puzzle tree, or the act of several people pulling at the bread is reminiscent of monkey behavior. Recipes for the bread first appeared in American women's magazines and community cookbooks in the 1950s, and the dish is still virtually unknown outside the United States. The bread is made with pieces of sweet yeast dough (often frozen) which are baked in a cake pan at high heat after first being individually covered in melted butter, cinnamon, sugar and chopped pecans. It is traditionally served hot so that the baked segments can be easily torn away with the fingers and eaten by hand. According to Wiki! LOL!
 
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My advice is to stay far away from this person. My first bad experience with a trade happened with Daniel Strong. Here is the original post I made about it back on October 05, 2000 on the original Board of Inquiry-
I recently had a very bad experience in my dealings with Daniel Strong of Fort Worth, TX. Here is my story:

Back in August I saw and ad posted on Reptiles Online Classifieds for ball python morphs for sale/trade. I recognized the name as a person who lived in the same area I did and emailed him. He was interested in some leopard geckos so we set up a trade. I traded him 1.0 albino, 0.1 blizzard, 1.0 probable het blizzard, 2.8 hypo tangerines for 0.1 het albino ball python, 0.2 probable het albino ball pythons, 1.0 het for ghost ball python. He came over and he seemed to me to be a very sweet and sincere person. He had what looked to be legitimate paperwork on the ball pythons and we did the trade. The next day however, we sexed the ball pythons and what was supposed to be the female 100% het albino was a male. This raised a red flag in my mind and I called the phone number on the receipt he had provided me with. I spoke to this person for about 20 minutes and he said he was sorry but he had NEVER traded or sold Daniel Strong ANY het albino ball pythons. Needless to say I was upset and wanted to trade animals back I called Daniel and he tried to put me off saying stuff like, "Well there is no doubt in my mind that these animals are what I said.." and "Why don't you let me talk to _________, maybe he is mistaken..". I said no, I just wanted my animals back and he said no problem, he would return them to me the next evening. The next night he didn't even show up, he had his girlfriend bring the animals and 4 of the tangerine leos were missing. I told her that I was keeping the 1.0 het ghost (yeah, right!) ball python until I got my 4 geckos back. I also told her to have Daniel call me so we could figure this out. Needless to say, he didn't call and when I emailed him and asked him why he didn't return all of my geckos his response was "I gave all your animals back to you, I don't know what you're talking about.."

Several weeks went by and I had been diligently checking the ads on Reptiles Online. I figured it wouldn't be long before he posted the stolen leos for sale/trade. Last week I checked an ad posted by someone named "Amanda". It just happened to contain the same animals Daniel always advertised only this time the ad contained LEOPARD GECKO MORPHS. Imagine that! I had a friend email "Amanda" and ask what leopard geckos "she" had and after several emails back and forth he finally sent pictures of them. Sure enough they were the geckos he had stolen from me back in August. He even had the nerve to say that he produced these animals and that they were from the David Nieves tangerine bloodline. He was right about the bloodline part of it. My friend and I set up a sting operation and boy was Daniel surprised to see me! The worst part is he still kept denying it, saying "Those aren't yours, I swear.." Also two of the three I got back are dying, they appear to have not been fed much while in his "care". And he still has one of my animals, I'll probably never see it again.

I do have documentation on all of this mess, including all email correspondence. If anyone would like more info or proof of this, I have more than enough and will be glad to provide info to anyone who asks.

Beware of Daniel Strong. [email protected], [email protected]. He not a good person and has forged documents, stolen animals, mistreated animals and LIED because of his greed.

Thanks for reading this, it helps to get it off my chest, hopefully it will help avoid another unwary herper from getting scammed.

Peace,
Kelli Hammack
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link to above quoted post-
http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/inquiry2/posts/10.html

Here is another thread that is also about Daniel Strong/monkeybread-
http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/inquiry2/posts/5765.html
 
KelliH

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To be fair, monkeybread is telling me that he is not the same Daniel Strong, but I am quite sure he is. He is threatening to call the cops on me and sue me for "slander". I'm confident that this is the same person I had the pleasure of dealing with in 2000 so he can bring it on.
 
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There should be no concern at all as I have more than proven to Kelli that I am not the same individual that she is commenting on, however keeps insisting that I am. She is stating that the genitics of the leos that I have for sale are not good, however as she so stated, most were bought from Bryan Jett, her partner.

I have been going back and forth with Kelli via PM for a few hours now - given her all the information that she needs to more than prove that I am not her assialant but to no avail.

The promise of getting Authorities involved due to slander is an actual issue as we all know.
 
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monkeybread said:
There should be no concern at all as I have more than proven to Kelli that I am not the same individual that she is commenting on, however keeps insisting that I am. She is stating that the genitics of the leos that I have for sale are not good, however as she so stated, most were bought from Bryan Jett, her partner.

I have been going back and forth with Kelli via PM for a few hours now - given her all the information that she needs to more than prove that I am not her assialant but to no avail.

The promise of getting Authorities involved due to slander is an actual issue as we all know.
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I never said anything about the genetics of your leos. I said you tried to pass off normal ball pythons as Hets to me back in 2000.

I am not Bryan Jett's partner; I am his friend.
 
KelliH

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LOL - As it says in my profile, yes. My name is Daniel Strong. I am also 27 years old, live in Keller, Tx. Was born and raised in Donaldsonville, LA until my father died 3 years ago and I moved here for work. I currently work as a Project Manager for Sprint, a company I have worked for; for the past 5 years.

I understand your concern for people screwing folks over, as since I have been a member of your forums have found that to be a frequent occurance. I have no need to do such as this is a hobby, I, unlike most....., could care less about the money you folks want to make for mass producing an already plentiful species. What is dishartening is that someone, such as yourself, would attack another person with no more than a "hunch" that it was someone that 11 years ago sold you a sick animal.

As I stated in my first response, please feel free to remove me from your forums as I have been trying to do so myself since the first time I contacted you when I got screwed over by Duvan "D&G Reptiles" as I have no intrest in being a part of this type of practices. Just note, any and all slander to my name and character will be reported.

Have a good one Kelli H.
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Your name is not in your profile, nor is your location. I would never have known it was you except that you were supposed to meet Bryan to buy some geckos and you kept blowing him off so I asked what your name was so I could avoid dealing with you.

You only moved here 3 years ago? Your facebook page says you graduated from Keller High School in 2001. You were 16-17 when we had our unfortunate deal, and you lived in the Keller area (Keller is in the Fort Worth area, check a map) at that time.

Dude, you are busted.
 
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OK, Daniel Strong aka monkeybread is banned. I have already heard from another member here that he received DOA geckos from Daniel. We don't need these types of people here buying and selling animals.
 
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