Ever since the creation of this site and blog, more and more people are coming forward to tell me about their horrific experience. I cannot help but to feel their pain. Money lost is money lost. Money lost repeatedly to the same person scamming you feels absolutely HORRIBLE. I can tell you that from first hand experience. Today, I thought I'd share another experience from a former fellow mantis enthusiast who has now changed hobbies.
Them: "I'm just done with that fucker"
Me: "Bartek?"
Them: "Now I'm onto alligator lizards.. I got scammed by Bartek 3 times.. under Bartek and Exo. Gave me hatched out ooths. Empty ooths."
This person was sold EMPTY OOTHS! It's one thing to get mantis ooths that may have been damaged during shipping. It's a completely different story when a buyer waits way over a the necessary period for an ooth to hatch, opens it up, and finds that there was nothing in the ooths to begin with. Even a mantis that has not been fertilized will lay ootheca that have eggs in them that are just not fertilized. In this scenario there was bad intent. Bartek clearly sent this unsuspecting patron ootheca that were never meant to hatch in the first place.
There was CLEARLY foul play here...
Hard earned money down the drain and like most, never had their story told.