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BUYER BEWARE OF DAKANIRO KENNEL IN RUSSIA!!  THIS IS WHAT CAN HAPPEN TO ANYONE, INCLUDING A PROFESSIONAL BREEDER, WHEN YOU SEND YOUR MONEY OUT OF THE COUNTRY, TO WHAT YOU ASSUME IS A REPUTABLE BREEDER.
I recently tried to purchase a pup from Dakaniro Kennel in Russia, BUYER BEWARE!!!  I saw the great reviews on her listing at puppyfind.com.   I sent money many months ago for a harlequin (mostly white) pup.  I paid in full when it was born, with the stipulation that if it was deaf I did not want the pup.  The pup did end up being deaf, so she was suppose to refund my money as promised.  I never got the refund, but it had only been 2 weeks when I saw she had anothe rlitter of pups born.  I emailed her to ask since she did not send my money back, could she let me have the harlequin female in her new litter instead for the same price.  She said she had though the transfer of money had been sent to me already, but her bank said the numbers were wrong....so yes, she would now let me have the new puppy that had more marks than the first puppy (so it would not be as likely to be deaf).  Well it was a very nice harlequin girl puppy, show marked even.  I was excited I had gotten this puppy.  Well you know what they say, if it seems too good to be true, it usually is.  I followed the listing on this puppy on puppyfind.com to see that she continued to be offered for sale at the price of $3500 several weeks after I had claimed the puppy at age 3 days.  I emailed her about this, as her website also only had another harl female from same litter listed as reserved.  I wanted to make sure she did not reserve me the wrong puppy.  She stated that the reserved puppy was for someone else, and yes, I had the show marked girl, and she changed the website to reflect the puppy was sold to Robin Reed, and the puppyfind listing was removed.  I assumed all was well, except for the fact I still had no photos of the pup since she was 3 days old (now 4 weeks old).  I was told she would take them every 2 weeks, which never happened.  So as the date got closer to shipping, I emailed her about sending someone to the airport to pick puppy up, this is when she tells me she must ship puppy before 8 weeks of age, as she will not have other crates for an older puppy.  Reluctantly I agree, as I just want to see my new puppy, and she will be 7 weeks at least.  2 weeks pass and I get no confimation about what flight company, flight number, or time or date....to pick the pup up.  It is 6 days away and I need to make the arrangements for her pickup.  I email several times over the next 3 days...finally I get a response 3 days before pup was suppose to arrive in USA.  She states that the whole litter of pups has died, that her older female had caught respiratory illness, and it killed the pups.  So she will refund my money, half the end of this week, and the other half 1-2 weeks later, plus she would cover the transfer fees.  It is only right since she has had my money now for over 4 months, after going through 2 new litters waiting.  This was the week of Thanksgiving by the way.  So I should have had at least  $1000 by Black Friday...but I didn't.  Needless to say, I emailed about this, and again, no responses.  No money ever came, and no emails ever got returned.  I have kept all of these email communications for proof to FCI, so they may investigate, and determine if they will continue to allow her to register pups.  In america, this is called a scam.  I assume they call it the same thing in Europe.  I actually emailed Yulia before going to FCI, to allow her to send my refund so no trouble would come to her.  She still refuses to email me back.  I now wonder if maybe she just sold the pup to someone else for more money, since it was listed for a significantly higher price than I had paid for several weeks after I was told it was mine.  Or maybe the pup was turning out so well (which is why I never got photos of the puppy after 3 days old) that she decided to keep the pup herself for showing.  Well all this is fine, but at LEAST send my money back!  I don't know if the entire litter died as she says, because she still has 2 pups up for sale on puppyfind that were born about 2 weeks before my pup was.  And if they did die, why would I not hear anything before 3 days before the pup was to be here?  And why did she not respond to my many emails before then?  And why did she not refund my money prior to this pup being offered for an exchange?  It seems, as long as she could interest me in another puppy, then she wouldn't have to be bother with sending my money back anytime soon, if at all.  I hate to think that this was planned, but woth all the little things...they add up to trouble for me.
I am glad you had such a good experience buying from her, but I certainly left a different review on puppyfind.  I don't know if it has anything to do with the economy, but what she has done is wrong, and other potential buyers need to know this.  Especially if you are thinking about buying a pup from her again.  It would be pretty risky, but you might be OK.  I certainly never angered her or anything of the sort, so I don't know why this has happened to me.  I am a reputable great dane breeder in NC, and expected better professionalism from a larger kennel.  I went off the great reviews, and this is what I got.
As you may already know, once you send your money out of state, there is no guarantees.  There is no protection for your money.  All I can do now is alert others to what has happened any way I can.  I will send this email to those who have given her a good review, in case they are considering referring her to others, or buying another pup themselves.  I will follow up with FCI, and cooperate with providing them the detailed emails of our drawn-out transaction, that ended in me getting scammed.  I will also  post this on my website for visitors to view, and make their own judgement of whether to do business with her or not.  As they say, buyer beware....especially when you have nothing to fall back on with out of the country transactions.  I am very disappointed to say the least.  I would not ruin my reputation for such a small amount of money that was not rightfully mine.
 
Robin Reed
MWD Great Danes
www.mwdgreatdanes.com