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Melissa Brault review: Sent deposit, story keeps changing 5

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I sent this woman a $500 deposit for a male Canadian Sphynx Kitten through Washington Mutual. I requested a receipt and a contract and its been a month and 1 day of her making promises to send them and excuses why she hasn't and she has not done so. I have all her email correspondence proving everything and showing how many times she contradicted herself throughout. She tried to have the additional $1100 sent two months early and I refused to send that without the contract she promised. It was at this time I had a major red flag go up because no breeder asks for the full amount two months before shipping a kitten. Today it turns out that she cant even remember how old the kitten is. Today she said the birthdate on the ad was incorrect. Currently according to her ad the kitten is 6 weeks and she is now saying she is shipping the kitten in 2 weeks, even though she said previously she wouldn't ship a kitten until it was 12-16 weeks old. She also tried to tell me today the kitten is 8 weeks old which is incorrect according to the birthdate on her ad which I saved even though now she's changing it to two weeks earlier to suit her. I requested a refund for my deposit, because we have no contract. She told me you can take me to court and you'll get nothing. She went ahead and said she spoke to a police officer and sent me pictures of the so called "8 week old kitten" according to her date change today, the kitten in the pictures is no more than 4 weeks old. I breed these cats, I compared them to cats from my biggest litter and the kittens are not 8 weeks old. She said she only had a single male and female that she bred and she was a small time breeder and today she said she messed up on the birthdate because she has 3 litters of kittens, contradicting what she said previously. Previously, when I requested pictures of the kitten she sent me pictures of two different kittens on 2 different dates and when I asked which one I was buying and which one I put a deposit on, she would not respond. In her email correspondence she contradicts herself every other sentence. I can tell she's lying because she changes her story every email. I filed a police report with the quebec police department, they said I need to file a report with my local police department which I will do today or tomorrow. I have filed reports with scamwatch, the FBI, the FTC and I will be contacting all pet sale sites to warn them also. This woman is very bad news and I wouldn't be surprised if she was doing this to multiple people at the same time, collecting deposits and never actually shipping the kittens. This kitten was supposed to be my son's Christmas present and now I'm $500 out of pocket with no kitten. I did my research prior to putting the deposit on the kitten and did not find any negative reviews, thank goodness, I've posted about her so that she won't be able to do this to someone else again.

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Choco4444
, CA
Jun 02, 2016 7:22 am EDT

Hi there
It's been 2 years since you posted but I believe this person just did this to me for over 1000 Canadian dollars just this past month (May 2016) only I my case it was a Cornish Rex but seems quite plausible that she would have multiple breeds or change etc
I am devastated and mortified that I did this allowed this to happen to me and I was so stupid but, I can't dwell on what I've done but I'd sure like to find her and get either the kitten ( who likely no longer exists ) or my money back ...my name is Julie I'm from Ontario
Have you been successful at all in finding her or getting your money back?
Would love to work with you in finding this ###
Best
Julie

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Tee Tee Tee
, US
Feb 16, 2017 3:56 am EST
Replying to comment of Choco4444

Yeah this same bish gor me for $1800 the story is the same! She contradicts herself, can't keep the age of the kitten straight and demanded money before sending the kitten...someone please catch her she needs to face jail time for all the people she has scammed!

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marcogravel
, CA
May 10, 2016 9:26 am EDT
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Hello everyone, Melissa Brault whas my tenant for more than a year, a have a judgment agains her. She still own me more than 8000$ so if anyone know where she is now, I will run after her. You can go on the regis du logement web site at this address, .http://t.soquij.ca/d2F3C, she did the same thing to other persons:http://t.soquij.ca/Gk8f7

I notice that she keep sphinx cat at home and keep 4 or 5 young kids at home... please put a picture of her if you have...

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Dominique Pelletier
, US
Sep 09, 2015 3:11 pm EDT

Bonjours je me nomme dominique nous on est aller malheureusement porter notre femelle pour la faire accoupler une belle femelle lila pure race et le landemain elle nous a contacter pour nous dire que notre chatte se echaper et la elle veux pas nous dedomager et arrete pas de nous faire des menaces et changer histoire constament se une mauvaise personne mechante j ai meme ete chez elle se sale sa pu sa sen excusement de dire sa .ais sa sen la marde se chat on l air davoir les oreilles plain bebitte pis se chat son meme pa pure race trs cher nous on compte la poursuivre en cours on vous invite a vous joindre a nous si vous le direrer et joindre votre rapport de plainte au notre merci

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Adrianna Krzysiak
London, CA
Dec 20, 2014 12:30 pm EST

I have this same problem with this lady, I paid her 2400.00 for two cats, I ended up driving to get them to some address and one cat dies the next day I took it home, the other one has now been diagnosed with FiP.