cypptrkk90
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The same thing here. I love my wife, not my snakes ...... but I look after them "with love".
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The same thing here. I love my wife, not my snakes ...... but I look after them "with love".
What about when you have work commitments and can't get their till a certain day and the seller says the will hold the animal for you but sells it a day before you have a chance to get there.
That is a load of utter crap Ian.
I do not love my reptiles. To me they are the same as goldfish swimming around an aquarium, all they are is enjoyable to look at. I have no emotional attachment to them, i have a dog and human friends for that.
Do you really think that people like Gavin Bedford (who brought us albino olives, glauerts, glebos and helped to brings us albino darwins) were in love with those animals, do you really think they would mistreat their animals and what is wrong with treating them as saleable items?
They aren't pets then and you are only in it for the money. That's got to have costs for the reptiles that you own. Can only hope they are sold to people who will give them the attention they deserve and who will cherish their new reptile and make it a scaley friend and member of the family (and spoil it).
You haven't sold many animals have you? How many times have you heard someone say, "Please hold it, I'll be there at such and such a time" then they don't turn up. So unless you have struck a good contact-relationship with the other party, I certainly be asking for deposits simply for this reason. I hate wasting a day, waiting around home for somebody and they don't turn up. No phonecalls "sorry couldn't make it" just don't turn up. In the meantime you knock back other potential buyers and lose out on them all.
Ian i am not in it for the money because i don't breed or sell anything.
Beleive it or not different people can have different views and feelings towrds their animals. That certaintly doesn't make them a bad people or keepers and it definately doesn't make your values the right values.
Appologies for inferring you are.
There are those who do so that comment is directed at them.
Easy solution is become card merchant , and ask for a credit card deposit over the phone, no deposit, it's not held. If they change their mind when they show up, you reverse the card transaction.
Wont work for those who are doing the selling "tax free" on a cash only basis.
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Ian.. you dont buy or sell Reptiles... so how do you come to the conclusion that because someone sells them that they will not look after them aswell?... But yes some people do that but i would say 99% of people dont... if a reptile is unhealthy then your going to have a hard time selling it.. there not puppies... You cant just wash them then sell em...
oh so true.solar 17 (Baden)I spend a lot of time and effort on my snakes that I sell , a clutch I hatched out this last week took me over 4 years and 3 clutches to achieve the results I was after , so to me if you send me a PM or email like the examples from my in box below then you are not likely to get much help at all .... No names , no Hi Brett , no thanks , no info on what they are asking about , nothing really to help me out with their questions ...
These type of PM's out way the good by a huge number too.
""don't have anymore do you, or know where I could go about obtaining one ?""
""Is he still available?? what colour are the eyes?? ""
""hi wat you got ta sell this season?""
"" was wondering if you knew where I could buy a golden spike tailed gecko? Or if you had the contacts to find me one?""
""Curious to know if you are keeping the childrens python""
It's a two way street and if some one bothers to spend an extra minute to address me , give me their name , a contact number , some details on the snake they are after , ask a few questions about the snakes etc then I will always go out of my way to help them out in any way I can.
I spend a lot of time and effort on my snakes that I sell , a clutch I hatched out this last week took me over 4 years and 3 clutches to achieve the results I was after , so to me if you send me a PM or email like the examples from my in box below then you are not likely to get much help at all .... No names , no Hi Brett , no thanks , no info on what they are asking about , nothing really to help me out with their questions ...
These type of PM's out way the good by a huge number too.
""don't have anymore do you, or know where I could go about obtaining one ?""
""Is he still available?? what colour are the eyes?? ""
""hi wat you got ta sell this season?""
"" was wondering if you knew where I could buy a golden spike tailed gecko? Or if you had the contacts to find me one?""
""Curious to know if you are keeping the childrens python""
It's a two way street and if some one bothers to spend an extra minute to address me , give me their name , a contact number , some details on the snake they are after , ask a few questions about the snakes etc then I will always go out of my way to help them out in any way I can.
Dead or killed in an accident hey ! Woah.
That's not at all an extreme assumption to make !!!!
I agree.
A far more acceptable and likely scenario is that they have
a) died of natural causes before they could ammend their advertisement or
b) a horribly sickening accidental death or
c) one of their relatives is being read their last rites and the poor sellers are sitting in economy class on a 747 hoping to make it in time
It was wrong of us to assume they may be lazy or arrogant or unwilling to help anyone beneath them on the Herpetological Salesperson Scale of Credibility !!!!
.......Guess there's a bunch of unclaimed corpses, dying cousins and highway slaughters in Brisbane then because by the sounds of it we sure send alot of unanswered requests for info !!!!
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