Watch Out For Corey Kingsbury Of Kingsbury Exotics!!!
Corey drove over 2 hours with his wife and kids to come here. He left his kids sleeping outside in his van in the rain for close to 2 hours while he and his wife Thelma were here dealing with us.
Corey came and hand picked $1170 in animals for his "business". We let him take the animals on consignment with the understanding that he would pay us as he sold things and them some every week. He has since sold some of the animals to pet stores, kept some for himself, and traded some to friends. It has been well over a month, and after numerous unaswered phone calls and excuses of why he couldn't return them nor our emails we find out that Corey told another business he was going to screw us over. We recevied a phone call from Brandon of Twinstate Reptiles (the company Corey told he got all this stuff and didn't intend to pay us) and learn to find out Corey owes this company money and animals also.
We finally hear from Corey after calling him and explaining that we are willing to drive to Vermont to come pick up the animals and get the money for animals he sold. He told us he would ship. After a week and a half nothing shows up. We again repeatedly called and sent tons of emails that once again went unanswered. We left a message for Corey explaining we would be in Vermont and wanted to come pick up the animals, but then he has his wife Thelma send us an email with a tracking number. We get the box finally, supposedly containg the animals he had left that he didn't sell or trade, and some other animals (6' green iguana, 6' green tree boa, eastern milksnake and one redtail) to offset the cash he owed.
Well once the box is opened, not only did he NOT send those animals to make up the difference, BUT he didn't include all the animals he said he didn't sell, OR A CHECK!!! He right now has an outstanding balance with us of $451 (which is including the 14 baby turtles we purchased from him). Plus, we're not even including the shipping we paid to get our own animals back. He must have received the letter from our attorney, which is why he posted negatively about us. I'm sure there be some great story he'll come up with here to explain all of this, as he's had a bad rap on the BOI as well. We did the right thing by Corey to help him out with his inventory, and got ripped off, and here he is trying to make himself look good, so when this all comes out in the open, he's not such a bad guy. Yeah right.
I have notifited our wholesalers, breeders, friends and everyone else to watch out for Corey, unless he pays cash up front. And I'm sure Brandon will be happy to some on and explain his situation with Corey.
Watch out for this guy! Unless he's paying cash he's big trouble!
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