J & J Reptiles

Ok .........Here we go .....I am starting out with J&J Reptiles just because the rumors are getting out of hand that Jim Dyke is spreading about me since our falling out in Oct / 08 .......Now I have been told several times to take this to the BOI but I prefer not to as I really never see anything get looked after there and all it is really is a bunch of people taking sides and mucking things up as best as they can .........

Now as a prelude.... Jim and I had a verbal agreement that if my friend Matt of GHI Reptiles would hand pick high end Ball python babies for myself and Jim and get them for a hell of a great deal at the time I would have the 1st breeding year with Jim's males split the babies 50-50 .....and I would raise all the females (see rumors on daily blog) and get 1st breeding with them and split 50-50 babies .....then decide from there if we wanted to cont. the breeding loan agreement ....

Jim Dyke of J & J Reptiles .....

Once we were friends and during this time I thought we were good ones .......I am not to sure on the dates or which happened 1st anymore when this all started but it ended the Wed after Thanksgiving 08 ......

I think about early 08 Jim got mad at Scott of A & J Decals ( whom I have been friends with for like 15 yrs ) & (they Scott and Jim were still friends at this time and did business with each other ) because Scott started buying from another wholesaler out east and Jim wasn't getting his business anymore .......Jim chatted to me about it and asked me if Scott was going to start his own wholesaling thing ......I told Jim no but it was clearly a concern for Jim so I called Scott and told him to call Jim and clear things up .......sometime later during the Spring Edmonton show Jim got upset again at Scott for bringing in dry goods to sell at the show and figured that Scott was trying to compete against Jim even though Jim stated at the Edmonton fall show in 07 that he would no longer be selling dry good at the shows .....Jim figured that Scott was planning this( the competing) all along and that Scott was trying to pull a fast one on Jim even though it was at least 7 months between shows when Jim said he wasn't selling dry good and Scott decided to ......I talked to Scott and told him to talk to Jim and get things cleared up which he did ......then some time later Scott wanted to buy a pair of Mandarin Rats from Jim via Port Credits ......Scott talked to me about it and I talked him out of it ( which later I told Jim during our several convos about Scott ) .........so Scott called Jim and cancelled the order and Jim got really mad at that and had decided to have a vendetta against Scott for all the reasons above and a few more which I don't really know... accept Jim always mentioned how he didn't like the way Scott posted on the forums and blah blah blah .......later Jim was told by one of his wholesale people that Scott had a account with the same wholesale company and Jim blew his lid ....the threatened the wholesale company and told them that if they didn't revoke Scott's account he would no longer deal with them ....and so on (even though now if asked Jim he will say he never did such a thing) .........he even went as far as to talk to the head person when he was in Daytona and after allot of strong arm BS got Scott's account cancelled ....Which I did not and still to this day do not agree with and I told Jim that over and over every time he brought it up .......So things went from bad to worse between Scott and Jim while both talked to me about it ....I told them both the same thing ........get it worked out between yourselves ....your making yourselves look bad to other people ......I am tired of hearing all about it ........grow up among several other things ...........I tried to stay friends with both and stay neutral unless I totally disagreed with what one might be doing to the other .......it finally came down to one email Shannon (Scott's wife) sent to Jim after Jim had sent several nasty emails to them about Scott still owing Jim money for a ball python .......Jim sent this email to me the Friday before Thanksgiving ......Jody ( Jim's wife) called me and asked me if I had seen it and I said no as I was cleaning house for company for the weekend and I told her I would try to look at it later ......I finally got to it on Sat and called Jim at the store because I forgot they went away for the weekend ......So then I called again later Monday night as I thought they would be home and Jim was bowling so I left a message to call me ......I didn't get a call back until Wed morning from Jody asking me if I was going to be around because her and Jim were coming over (which they very rarely did ) I said why and was told it was nothing bad just a talk .........I said ok ..... So Jim and Jody showed up caring a cooler ........I knew right then and there it wasn't going to be just a talk and that he was over to take back his snakes I had on breeding loan and screw me out of 18 months of raising his snakes not to mention all the potential money from the babies once I bred them ......We talked about Scott and the BS which BTW ...I had NOTHING to do with .....So Jim's problem was that I didn't pick his side over Scott's and that I stayed neutral and Jody told me later that the last straw was that I didn't get back to Jim about Shannon's email .....So after about 1/2 hour of talking to Jim about Scott and defending myself he said he didn't trust me and he was taking his balls ....he didn't know for how long this was just something he had to do because he didn't trust me anymore .......So I said fine ( very upset ) and went down stairs to make him out a check for the money I owed him and went into the snake room ......he wanted to leave his boas but I said no way if you take the Balls you are taking everything and BTW here is the money I owe you .....He said more BS that didn't matter at the time but said he thought I gave him to much money so he would check that out and call me back .........he called me back and said I owed him about 130.00 more then I gave him but he wasn't worried about that ........No mention of reimbursing me for the money and time I spent looking after his snakes for almost 2 yrs ......I was very very upset and called Dan and Matt and talked things through with them then went to clean rodents ...I guess Jim called which I was cleaning and got an ear full from my mom who is 1/2 partner of my business ...I guess he didn't like what he heard ......I called him back and we had words and I explained how I felt screwed and burned and owed money and all he said was I guess I see your point ........I told a few of my friends what had happened and they were very upset with how I was treated and word got around about what Jim did to me .......So a couple months later it was brought up on an open forum and that's where I saw that Jim was implying that the reason he took his animals back is because I was not feeding his snakes and not looking after them .......I got very mad and decided to send him a bill for 18,000.00 ( 12.70 per snake per week I think .....I would have to find the invoice to be sure but it was around there ) for looking after his snakes just to prove my point that I had money into these animals as well and he screwed me .......So now the rumors are flying ( see rumors on Day to Day blog ) .......I have decided now just like then to try and stay away from all the BS and let it go but it is plain to me that Jim will not so that's why I have written it here ......sort of like therapy on my part ....... So that about sums it up about Jim .......I think he is a total liar and scumbag and will never ever do business with him again .........

Jodi Dyke of J & J Reptiles .......

Because of all the BS with Jim I am no longer friends with Jodi ..... I say this with a very heavy heart ......I miss my friend ......My only regret about this whole thing is that we more then likely will never be friends again ....... Jodi is the one person in the store that works her butt off and looks after the animals .....I firmly believe that its she that has all the Beardie knowledge and its she that should get all the pats on the back on what the business has produced over the yrs ...... I feel that Jodi is the one behind the success of the Beardie production and the health of the babies .........My hat is off to you Jodi for all your hard work ......