Waiting on a new retic....

I'm currently waiting on a retic......but I don't know what I'm going to be getting yet. I was on a wait list for a purple albino male dwarf. The breeder knew I wanted a smaller snake and wasn't going to breed so offered a lavender albino male SD. Pictures were sent to me, we agreed on a price, I paid for the snake plus shipping. The day the snake is supposed to be shipped out I got a call from the breeder about an issue that arose. His policy is to verify the gender of a snake again before it goes out. Well the male I was going to receive was actually a female. Now here is where things got tricky. From the clutch the breeder thinks he had a 1.1 pair of identical looking snakes. Prior the breeder sold the "female" to someone that wanted to use her for breeding. The breeder is now second guessing which snake had got sent out to the other customer and if the pair had somehow gotten mixed up or if there were actually 2 similar females and one got mis-sexed. The breeder went back through all the photos he had of the pair and can't find a time when they would have gotten swapped. Currently the breeder and I are waiting to hear back from the other customer on verification of the gender of the animal received. Depending how that goes I'll have several options.

Option 1: The snake I was waiting on gets sent to the first customer and their snake gets sent to me.
Option 2: I take the lavender albino female SD, and other customer keep his snake.
Option 3: A somewhat similar snake but upgraded to lavender albino tiger male SD.
Option 4: Stay on the waiting list till the breeder has something else I like.

Not sure what I would do in this situation. I might ask for a refund and go with someone else who is more organized but I do understand mistakes happen. Right after I get a snake I have the sex verified so make sure of what I have. It is a good practice to have.

Breeder sounds kind of confused or doesnt keep good records. I would be leary of the claims of a SD if he cant even keep his snakes' sexes right. Who is to say he doesnt mess up the percents and you end up with a full sized male mainland.

I will probably stay with the breeder. The fact that he called to discuss the situation and wants to verify what the other customer received and rectify the situation for all parties shows that he has customer service and will stand behind the animals he produces. Mistakes do happen sometimes. I once threw a male fancy mouse into my tub of grow out females by accident. That put my selling of pet mice on hold for a few weeks because I couldn't guarantee that a customer wouldn't magically get a litter of mice from the one pet mouse they bought.

Usually if I get an animal as a pet I won't bother verifying the sex but if I plan to breed it then I will verify.

Dare I ask....??

Pics??

The breeder is a big name in the industry so I'm going to give him the benefit of doubt that it's not a record keeping issue and more of just mis-sexing the animal.

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Originally Posted by Phillydubs

Dare I ask....??

Pics??

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This is the one that I originally agreed to buy.

https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...6ca70fae_c.jpg

Wow pretty pretty !!!

Magnificent congratulations let's hope this gets straighten out quickly :gj:

So the other one looks very similar to that.

Do you care if it’s m or ?