Unethical? Lazy? or Just plain Stupid?? - Page 1

Interested to get all of your "take" on this...

Said breeder has "purchased" a breeding stud from another party..

Purchaser has used this stud on one of his bitches and which produced a litter for his kennel, and which he currently has for sale.

Purchaser has also advertised this stud will be used in the future on several other females he owns...

However, payment for purchase of stud was never made...with purchaser not ever having paid out one red cent toward purchase of said dog,  as per the contract.

Through Legal means, dog was relinquished back to original seller, and where he now resides.

There is no way the purchaser will ever produce litters from this particular male in the future, yet his breedings remain on his website in order to draw in buyers for sales on pups from this dog.

He requires a non refundable deposit of $400.00, for which of course he is UNABLE to produce pups from this said advertised stud dog. 

How do you all see this scenario, and what would YOU do to bring this out in the open, in order to protect/notify potential buyers from being scammed on a pup they will never get? 

Jean

Trust noone. 

Get  your next dog from a rescue or animal shelter.

Maybe he hasn't gotten his webamster to update his site yet? But then again maybe not:(

First have an annonomous third party contact him to see if he is still accepting deposits on one of those litters and if so then a HUGE red flag would be raised and if he tells them no since he doesn't have the dog then I would assume he needs his site updated.

Jean, why do you feel responsible for his lack of ethics?

I'ts been shown that this purchaser's "self proclaimed webmaster" fully knows of this situation, and is somewhat "in on" this seller's potential scam of future potential clients, knowing there will be no breedings from said stud.  
 

  Hi Shady Lady,  I don't feel responsible FOR his lack of ethics... I certainly can't control that.

 However, as a fellow dog owner, one who has been taken advantage of by another scammer several years ago, and by someone who also posted and advertised regularly on the database...
  I feel it my responsibility to the DOG community as a whole that this kind of knowledge should not go un-addressed when it stands to knowingly harm someone else.
  I would want someone to do that for me...as they have...if they know something I am not aware of. 
  I'm not one to subscribe to the theory that  "if it doesn't affect me, then who cares!!"  

Out of curiosity, will the current pups be papered?

Not my litter, so I can't answer that.

The current litter is outside the issue I bring up here. 
It's the seller's continued advertising of future litters arriving from said stud in order to generate deposits, knowing full well there will not be any litters, that becomes the deception and i.e. scam on unsuspecting buyers.    I can 

I don't worry about things I can't control......