Mr.Sputnik
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This is a thread dedicated to the man who continues to scam and rip off patients and caregivers. If you have a story of how Tim Tipton ripped you off please feel free to post it here.
I will start with my story.
I met Tim at the MMJ legal seminar in Aspen in 2005. He seemed like a nice guy. I was there with a friend of mine who had severe epilepsy and we wanted to figure out what I needed to do to become her caregiver.
Tim told me that he could hook me up with paperwork to secondary caregive for over 50 patients. I was registered as having 2 patients and he said he would get me 3 more patients signed over to take me to my max of 5. He also met a friend of mine who is a talented grower and told him he would get him 5 patients signed over as well. He charged $1,500 for this service and gave us a stack of photocopied patient cards with the SSN# blacked out (your social used to be on your card).
Tim said not to worry about plant count at our grow as we were covered for 250+ plants with the secondary caregivership paperwork. He also said he had warren edson on retainer for us if anything happened to go down with law enforcement.
I went over my 12 plants at my house thinking Tim had 3 more patients signing over for me. My friend and I decided to rent a house and fill up the basement with plants. We grew ISS in a SCROG so we didn't have a high plant count. I told my partner even though Tim says we're safe I didn't want to go over 60 plants as that's what my signed over patients and his combined would cover as I didn't trust the secondary caregivership to hold any weight in court. We didn't have cards of our own as this was at a time when only about 1,200 patents were on the registry in CO and you needed a VERY serious ailment to get one and you needed to know a doctor whom was willing to risk prosecution for you.
About 3 months went by, Tim had been picking up ounces for $250 from us the whole time. I could sell them all day at $350 a piece at this time. I come to find tim is selling my meds to patients for $325 an oz. I had asked tim about a month before where my 3 patients and my friends 5 patients were. He said it was in the process. At this time I told Tim I needed the paperwork on my 3 patients or I wasn't giving him more meds. He got shitty with me about it and he started dealing just with my partner.
I realized at this time that Tim was probably scamming us. I wondered how many other people Tim had charged $1,500 to and given them the same pile of photocopied red cards that I had. I harvested my last plants that were over count and told my partner that I needed to bail on the partnership as I didn't trust Tim to be who he makes himself out to be. Months of setup time and work for nothing, but I didn't want the risk.
My partner was raided about a month later. Tim had never gotten him the 5 patients signed over and the stack of photocoped red cards was worthless. Tim got the phone as he thought my partner had more meds for him. Tim blew him off, he didn't have Edson on retainer, it was all a scam so tim could profit at the risk and expense of someone else. My friend now has a felony cultivation charge thanks to Tim Tipton.
I got lucky. I had a feeling in my gut that Tim was a scam artist and I bailed before he got the best of me.
I've heard stories that Tim eventually put all of those red cards on a DVD and ran that scam for a long time.
Tim also scammed my friend Rednik. I'll tell him I posted a thread up about Tim and I'm sure you'll here his story too. Tim has scammed so many people that it came full circle in my group of friends.
I will start with my story.
I met Tim at the MMJ legal seminar in Aspen in 2005. He seemed like a nice guy. I was there with a friend of mine who had severe epilepsy and we wanted to figure out what I needed to do to become her caregiver.
Tim told me that he could hook me up with paperwork to secondary caregive for over 50 patients. I was registered as having 2 patients and he said he would get me 3 more patients signed over to take me to my max of 5. He also met a friend of mine who is a talented grower and told him he would get him 5 patients signed over as well. He charged $1,500 for this service and gave us a stack of photocopied patient cards with the SSN# blacked out (your social used to be on your card).
Tim said not to worry about plant count at our grow as we were covered for 250+ plants with the secondary caregivership paperwork. He also said he had warren edson on retainer for us if anything happened to go down with law enforcement.
I went over my 12 plants at my house thinking Tim had 3 more patients signing over for me. My friend and I decided to rent a house and fill up the basement with plants. We grew ISS in a SCROG so we didn't have a high plant count. I told my partner even though Tim says we're safe I didn't want to go over 60 plants as that's what my signed over patients and his combined would cover as I didn't trust the secondary caregivership to hold any weight in court. We didn't have cards of our own as this was at a time when only about 1,200 patents were on the registry in CO and you needed a VERY serious ailment to get one and you needed to know a doctor whom was willing to risk prosecution for you.
About 3 months went by, Tim had been picking up ounces for $250 from us the whole time. I could sell them all day at $350 a piece at this time. I come to find tim is selling my meds to patients for $325 an oz. I had asked tim about a month before where my 3 patients and my friends 5 patients were. He said it was in the process. At this time I told Tim I needed the paperwork on my 3 patients or I wasn't giving him more meds. He got shitty with me about it and he started dealing just with my partner.
I realized at this time that Tim was probably scamming us. I wondered how many other people Tim had charged $1,500 to and given them the same pile of photocopied red cards that I had. I harvested my last plants that were over count and told my partner that I needed to bail on the partnership as I didn't trust Tim to be who he makes himself out to be. Months of setup time and work for nothing, but I didn't want the risk.
My partner was raided about a month later. Tim had never gotten him the 5 patients signed over and the stack of photocoped red cards was worthless. Tim got the phone as he thought my partner had more meds for him. Tim blew him off, he didn't have Edson on retainer, it was all a scam so tim could profit at the risk and expense of someone else. My friend now has a felony cultivation charge thanks to Tim Tipton.
I got lucky. I had a feeling in my gut that Tim was a scam artist and I bailed before he got the best of me.
I've heard stories that Tim eventually put all of those red cards on a DVD and ran that scam for a long time.
Tim also scammed my friend Rednik. I'll tell him I posted a thread up about Tim and I'm sure you'll here his story too. Tim has scammed so many people that it came full circle in my group of friends.