First 2007 CH shipment a few fancies....More "Lottery" debate split

Let me make it simple...

All i think they meant by "lottery" was that you have a chance to find something cool. They never said a morph or anything like that... just have a "chance" to find something neat. He also said in his ad that people can act like the importer, you know how many times people tell me they wish the could through all the balls with me each year. This is Mikes way of letting people do it on their own in a very small way. Remeber Mikes pays for ALL the bags whether they get sold or not... he also deals with importing them (which is a whole new pain in itself) and shipping them to customers. So basically MIKE is taking all the real chances and offering people a fair "chance" to find something neat. Also his bag prices are LOW for only a 10 lot of un -opened bags Most importers wont even let you get an un opened 10 lot!. Most un-opened lots are usually the whole crate 200 - 250 animals.

So basically we can solve this problem by...

1. If you like his "lottery" go ahead and get some
2. If you do NOT like his "lottery" dont buy any!

Basically i think Mike is doing something very cool for people out there, ( i think hes nuts for not going through them all ) no other importers are willing to or have done anything like this for the smaller breeders. Before your only choice was buy 200 c.h. (which is worse in my opinion since most people cant hold 200, but they CAN hold 10 ) or buy the fancies we find...

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Originally Posted by neilgolli

Brad, there is absolutely no doubt that some africans are breeding balls over there. Noha is breeding hundreds of animals and he has been grabing all kinds of cool stuff for a few years. However keep in mind that 100,000 animals a year come to the US from africa and in the US there are very very very few breeders even producing 1000 animals. 99.9% are farmed babies and a lot of things are grabbed and sold for more however to think that they grab everything is being over optomistic. Think of looking at thousands and thousands of snakes after awhile they all look alike. Now imagin half of them are deep in shed. Things slip in.

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Who is Noha? My name is Noha but i'm a female...LOL that's funny :rolleyes:
:P

I personally had a great experience with the lottery from Mike. I didn't order a bag to get a cool snake for cheap, or a morph. I did it becuase it is fun to get something that could be anything. You don't know what you will see when you open the bag. They are all beautiful babies, and 2 I am keeping because they really stand out to me as nice fancies.
Thank you guys for this opportunity :)

wow, no offense to anyone but reading this totally made me glaze over and not really care. ok, so maybe calling it a lottery was a bad idea, but if you don't like it ignore it, what's the big deal. If only common sense were more common this would not even be an issue. I understand the fear of disposable animals but what about homie that buys a cheap CH at a show and decides it's too much of a pain to deal with, there's no real difference between the two? Either way you'll have stupid mindless people abusing the animals they originally promised to care for. This is kind of just becoming bickering now because I don't understand how this is hurting the people who have the most trouble with it. There have been some great opinion posts but there has also, as I just said, been so useless bickering.

Personally I think an unopened bag of 10 snakes would be like christmas because it will be a surprise what you get, but at the same time I'd be looking for fun little girls and boys not some silly way to strike it rich. Sure there's a way for the more valued morphs to slip through but I wouldn't be looking for that. If I want that I'll go spend my money on it.
And Brad, you're lucky because clearly you haven't had any terribly monotonous jobs because if you had, you would totally understand how things slip through the cracks.