08/16/2020
I am considering selling off the UBKC Registry. I'm seriously willing to sell, this isn't a joke. It's not that I'm necessarily "trying" to sell or that I "want" to sell, but I will sell it off if the offer is reasonable and the buyer is serious, then I will.
I'm not interested in wasting anymore time on this business nor the community however, not even interested in investing the effort and time that it would require in "putting in effort" in trying to sell it off. I would NEVER make back the money that I have invested into the UBKC Registry anyway (over $150,000+ USD invested), so I certainly don't want to waste anymore time on selling it either.
So if you want to buy the UBKC Registry, then make me a SERIOUS offer, but do not waste my time if you aren't a serious buyer.
It's not the UBKC itself that I don't like. I truly enjoyed the traveling, no, I loved the traveling and meeting new people, seeing all of the beautiful dogs and making so many new friends. The business idea and business model itself is wonderful, and a fabulous business model indeed.
The UBKC Registry offered so many new services to the animal breeding industry that no other Kennel Club or Registry had ever offered before.
The UBKC Registry pioneered services and features that were offered to the community, which TRULY provided the tools for the purebred-breeder community to step into the new era of animal breeding.
Purebred animal breeding and Kennel Club Registries have been the exact same, with the exact same services for over 100 years now, and literally NOTHING has changed in the way that Kennel Clubs / Registries do business, or the services that they offer to the community.... That all changed with the UBKC Registry!
The UBKC Registry single handedly did more for the betterment of the purebred breeder community in just 3 short years, than ANY five (5) other registries COMBINED have done for the betterment of the community in the last 100 years!
* The UBKC offered the breeders the ability to prove Purebred DNA status with real science backed by international Patent. * The UBKC offered breeders / buyers a free service that protected buyers from getting ripped off or scammed from a puppy scam. * The UBKC offered a service to DNA map a non-purebred dog to determine if it was a purebred, then award that dog owner with Certified DNA Mapped Ownership Registration as a Legitimate Purebred Pedigree! * The UBKC offered breeders the tools necessary to develop new breeds and new bloodlines - the RIGHT way.
Those are just SOME of the services that the UBKC Registry offered to the community, and that was just our first two years in business... but sadly, the community didn't want these services. That's because the community attracts liars, scammers, thieves, paper-hangers, swindlers, back-stabbers and illegitimate breeders.
Sure, there's good people in the community, I already stated that I met many wonderful people and made many new friends as a result of the business, and I would NEVER call those types of people, my friends.
But unfortunately, it's just that there are way too many scammers, liars, thieves, paper-hangers, unethical breeders and fly-by-night con-artists in the Bully Breed community... and they're all out there trying to screw each other over on a daily basis.... and I want NOTHING to do with any of it.
The bad part, is that being a Kennel Club / Registry literally puts me smack-dab in the middle, right at Ground Zero, right in the middle of all of the lying, chaos, stealing, cheating and paper-hanging.
I set out in in this business to try to make a difference for the GOOD. I wanted to restore the trust, the comradery, the integrity, the value, and the respect for the breed that was once associated with this community.... and for a minute I actually believed that I could accomplish that goal. But I learned quickly that the community as a whole, just wasn't interested in going that direction with things, and so I just don't want anything to do with any of it any longer.
I'm not willing to do business with those types of people, and unfortunately the number of honest breeders in the Bully Breed community are just so few, that there aren't enough of them to keep the company afloat financially.
We'd SERIOUSLY get 25 - 30 calls EVERY SINGLE WEEK from people wanting us to hang papers for them! They were so brazen that they would literally flat out ask us if we would! Yes, seriously! * And you all know who you are too *
We'd get another 10-20 calls every week from people trying to scam us and "pull the wool over our eyes" - by trying to get pedigree papers from us for dogs that they knew damn well were not purebred dogs. Often times they would flat out tell us they knew their dog wasn't a purebred, but that a person by the name of "redacted for legal reasons", told them that we would hang papers for them... which is an obvious lie.
We'd get another 10+ calls monthly from people trying to steal a dog from their former boyfriend/girlfriend or Ex-husband/wife... it was CRAZY how often this happened. Sorry, we don't engage in illegal practices at the UBKC, you'll have to go to another Registry to get that service.
But the calls which were on the "Up And Up", the legitimate breeders, the ones trying to do things the right way, the ones not intentionally lying on their dogs pedigree, those people... they were very very few, and very far between. We'd only get MAYBE 5+ calls per MONTH from honest people trying to register a dog the honest way. - and that's on a good month. At a measly $20 / dog, that means we were only making $100+ each MONTH.
Now, if we accepted every single new customer inquiry we received, and we would have been willing to look the other way at the unethical breeding practices and the intentional paper-hanging, then would could have EASILY been making $5,000+ each month... and that was just in our infancy as a business.
Unfortunately, the entire community is filled with liars, cheats, thieves, cons, paper-hangers and scammers, and it's crazy to see them all trying to scam and steal from one another, on such a regular basis!?!?! It's like most of them don't even know how to conduct a breeding deal or sell a dog in an honest transaction without trying to rip off someone in the process. The idea of not lying on a pedigree application or not trying to scam a buyer is like speaking a foreign language to them, their minds seriously don't even compute the equation if it doesn't involve dishonesty of some degree... It's freaking insane!
Don't get me wrong, there are some good people in the community, and I am friends with some to this day. But the good people are seriously outnumbered 50 to 1.
Now if someone who had no morals or no ethics wanted to run the company, they could EASILY bank $5,000 / month! Seriously, I have no doubts they could make that much $$$... the business is there to be had and make that kind of money as long as they are willing to look the other way.
But I myself have too much integrity to be a sell-out. I refuse to run a corrupt Registry company which only further hurts the breeds, and there just isn't enough HONEST money in the industry for a legitimate business to be and remain successful.... AND IF THE BAD BREEDERS KNOW YOU WON'T CONDUCT SHADY BUSINESS, THEN THEY WON'T COME TO YOUR REGISTRY FOR ANY BUSINESS, NOT EVEN THEIR LEGITIMATE BUSINESS.
I have no issues, and no love lost... I've been emotionally done for a while now. I Just happened to come across some stuff from the dog shows this weekend and decided it was time to LET GO of everything.
I've already moved on to bigger and better things, both emotionally and financially. Those who know me, know that whatever I'm doing, I'm making $$ while doing it, whatever that may be.
I honestly feel bad for the good and honest breeders out there, because they have so little going for them in their favor, and so few options of ethically ran and operated Registries. I tried to make a difference in the community, I truly did. Unfortunately the dishonest people aren't interested in doing things the right way, and that is the ONLY way I will do things.
I offered a better service, a better Registry, better tools for the breeders and I offered a better community to the people, but the community didn't want any of those things. Instead the community wanted to do business with other Registries just because of the name behind those Registries.
Some of those names even ended up asking me to help them provide pedigree papers because they didn't know how, or didn't have the ability. But hey, as long as the person running the Registry is popular and/or willing to allow shady s**t to go on, that's all that matters to MOST people in the community.... who cares if the pilot to the plane you're on knows how to fly, as long as they're cool, right?
It is what it is, I'm not letting it affect me anymore, and I've already let go emotionally. So nothing anyone says about me or the UBKC can affect me, because I am no longer emotionally invested in the UBKC.
If someone else wants to give it a shot and thinks they can make the difference that I couldn't make, then they are welcome to it.
I still own the name, the website, the copyright, the pedigree software, the pedigree lists, the intellectual rights, and everything else associated with the company, and I intend to keep intellectual property rights current active until at least the year 2025... just because I can. I ironically even own the names to some other Registry services, some BIG ones, lol. - You can have it all.
It's not necessarily that I'm outright trying to sell the UBKC, however if the right offer was made, I would sell it. But if it doesn't sell, I don't care. As I said, I'm done and moved on to other things and already being successful at those things.
Of everything that I will miss, what I will miss the most is meeting the good people, and making friends with those people. I was fortunate enough to have met some very nice people whom I am still friends with to this day. I will miss traveling and trying to help people, but you can't help those who don't want to be helped.
Those who became my friend through this adventure, no worries, friends are forever and I'm not going anywhere. We will still friends, and hope that we remain in touch.
If anyone is interested, shoot me an offer. Any offer. Any crazy idea or collaboration of ideas and offers. I'm a business man and always willing to negotiate.
