- Dec 18, 2012
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Dishonest!!! Don't shop here! Unfortunately, I only read the reviews and missed the "tips" (still trying to figure out how to write a review on yelp from my phone so I can warn others) on the Yelp site. I drove 45 minutes to his house where he sells chickens on the written (text) and verbal (phone) agreement he would provide 8-10 blue egg laying and sex link hens. I posted the picture of our text under the businesses pictures of Yelp as proof. When I got there, not only did he say he did not have ANY laying hens available, he raised the price of the older chicks (blue layers) to $25. and had NO sex links. The heartless nature of this man was evident after I explained that I am a single mother of five children and the only reason I had driven the distance was because all of our chickens had been killed the day before while free ranging and my children were heartbroken. The highlight of their days is checking the coop throughout the day for eggs and love to guess what colors they might find. They were SO excited when I told them I was going to get more hens (especially when they learned I was bringing home blue layers. When I explained this to him, and that I expected him to at least honor his price for the blue egg pullets that weren't even going to lay for months, he refused. He knew I wasn't willing to go home empty handed to my children and he intended to capitalize on it. Several times he tried to trick me into purchasing more by saying he would throw in an extra chick if I purchased more. Eventually he agreed to sell me 4 at the price of 3 and when I had them all picked out acted like he hadn't JUST made the offer and told me he would only honor it if I purchased six. He also originally showed me which ones he was willing to sell for $16.00 and then when I would choose the chickens he would tell me the ones I had picked were actually the $25.00 chicks. I was there for over an hour just trying to get him to honor his word and stick to a price he had just quoted. When I told him I wasn't happy with what he'd done he then refused to even sell me the chicks telling me he didn't want someone to leave unhappy with what they purchased. I told him there was NO WAY I was going to come home to my babies empty handed, and that if ANY other place was open (it was already after 8pm by that time) trust me, I would definitely go somewhere else. I even made SEVERAL calls while there, to find ANY place open that I could go with no luck. The weird part is he kept repeating the phrase "look, it's not like I lured you here under false pretenses" over and over again, while I was trying to explain that's EXACTLY what he did. Twice by text I asked how much his LAYERS were and after our phone conversation he completely lied. In a last ditch effort to get him to show a fraction of decency and integrity I asked if he would give me a $3.00 discount toward my gas which was met with a flat out "no" I really can't believe this guy is still in business. Even his coops are sub par. He was putting one together when I got there and I watched him glue and use only two diagonal screws to assemble the corners. I built better out of scraps from my garage.
