Hey everyone I am not huge on starting my own threads 'cause lord knows how bad I am at keeping up with them but this particular situation with a breeder I am talking to has piqued my curiosity. I am at the stage in my hobby where I am looking for a nice multi-gene male to put to my ladies in about 6 months. ( I am looking now to leave myself time to build the enclosure, pass up or wait for deals and quarantine time) I located a particular snake that caught my eye, from what I could tell is a relatively reputable breeder, has good BOI reviews and all. My experience with him thus far, is a little over a week of emailing back and forth. With the first few emails I asked him general questions about the snake...weight, pics, what the dame/sire were and where they came from if that was possible. After these particular questions I feel he has put me off by giving me answers like "I'll get back to you when I get home from fishing, I'll answer you in the morning, etc." my favorite one that really got me was, "things have come up I probably won't be able to help you out for a few weeks. Thanks". This was his last response after I emailed him letting him know that I felt like I was being put off and if there were any way I could make things easier on him with our transaction to just let me know.

I feel I have been very courteous allowing him 2 even 3 days in-between email responses with no answer until I shoot him another email, where he completely ignores everything I said or asked in the previous one. I apologized for being a nag with the emails and let him know that this is a significant purchase for me and that was the main reasons for asking questions. The whole conversation I felt like he wanted me to just buy it and if not stop emailing him, for some reason he felt the need to tell me he sells many snakes a week with returning customers...I mean that is great for him and all but....ok? Does he mean to say that since I am a new customer I don't get the customer service that they do?

I asked him if I should get back to him in a couple weeks if that would be better for him or if I should just start looking elsewhere cause to me it really seems like he just doesn't want to sell it to me.

I don't know, I am a little upset...I guess i just wanted to ask the community.