Greebo
Snakologist
It's good to see that you guys are on the ball Jeff.
Trouser said:I reckon ozherpconservations just ticked off because he got ripped. Are people going to start putting crap on Tim Mensforth for selling reptiles for a profit? Sounds like a bunch of sour grapes and spilt milk.
Hix said:Trouser said:I reckon ozherpconservations just ticked off because he got ripped. Are people going to start putting crap on Tim Mensforth for selling reptiles for a profit? Sounds like a bunch of sour grapes and spilt milk.
I have to disagree with that point of view.
I've been breeding cockatiels for a long time, but not in big numbers, just a dozen or so a year if I'm lucky. I handrear a lot of the chicks and then sell them to petshops at the going rate. They then increase the price (usually double it), and I accept that.
But if a friend is interested in getting one, I'll sell it to them at a ridiculously low price - mates rates sort of thing. I've even given them away on rare occasions to special friends.
If I did that for a friend, and then found the next day they were advertising the bird - or had sold it - at the retail price (double what I would have sold it for), I'd be pretty damn urinateed off. If I know beforehand my friend wants to sell it for profit, then I'll sell it to them for the price I sell to the petshops. That way the only one who loses out on the deal is the petshop.
Ozherp did a deal on the snakes. He wasn't selling to a dealer, but to a fellow herp, that he thought was interested in acquiring the snakes for his collection.
Daniel has right to feel ripped off.
Just my $460.00 worth.
Hix
buck said:Your cockatiel analogy is a little irrelevant. I think everone would be urinateed if a friend did that to them. This wasn't Daniel's friend. Now lets say you sold a bird to someone through the paper and then saw that they advertised it straight away for a profit? Yes I would imagine you would feel a little duped and would probably never sell to them again, as all of us would also, but that doesn't mean you've been ripped off.
remember every dog has it day, as someone mentioned 'what comes around goes around'
ozherpconservation said:Thanks Hix.
Buck, I have not once said that I have been ripped off.
Ricko said:hey marc just wanted to know wether u still had the mulgas or not?
and what are they like as handlers?
buck said:ozherpconservation said:Thanks Hix.
Buck, I have not once said that I have been ripped off.
I realise that. What I said was in reference to Hix's(and other's) comment that you have the right to feel ripped off. I fully understand that you were p****d off as anyone would be.
Mick
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