Is she a Pastel?

This baffles me for some reason.. I mean the guy is a scumbag, but c'mon the buyer can't tell a normal from a pastel??? I'm glad you got most of your money back.. Just stick to the eye catching morphs.. Ones that are easy to distinguish, unless of course you deal with a reputable breeder...

Alan

When I went to look at her she was in shed. She has a clear belly, blushing on the head, and yellow on her sides. I couldn't tell her eye color for 2 reasons. First I am not that good at telling the colors apart especially on something small and second she was starting to go blue. Her sides looked a lot more yellow when I got her (I am assuming that was due to her starting to go blue). I didn't notice any blushing but I have seen pastels that had very little blushing. I have also seen pastels with very little yellow on the sides when they start to mature. Maybe I was seeing what I was hoping to see. I was obviously a fool. From now on I will buy from only reputable breeders.

Wow, very glad to hear that you were able to get some of your money back! It's good to hear a happy ending to something like this finally. So many scammers out there are willing to just take peoples money (or animals) and run and never try to make good. At least you learned something from it and you still have a very nice looking animal to boot. Sorry that all this had to happen to you but at least you've learned what not to do when dealing with someone you don't know!

I'm very glad to hear you got the money back. Sometimes it pays to be persistent. The pet store owner did the right thing by blackballing him. He was probably told to give the money back or he won't do business with him again. Kudos to the store owner. :D

Let it be a lesson learned and only buy from reputable breeders. You get what you pay for ;)

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Originally Posted by Vibrant Balls

I'm very glad to hear you got the money back. Sometimes it pays to be persistent. The pet store owner did the right thing by blackballing him. He was probably told to give the money back or he won't do business with him again. Kudos to the store owner. :D

Let it be a lesson learned and only buy from reputable breeders. You get what you pay for ;)

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I'm sure this is exactly what happened. Must have been a nice shock for him when he went in there and the owner wouldn't sell him any feeders or anything until he made right. Unfortunately this is what you have to do with some people. I'm still amazed that this guy scammed someone in his own town that knew where he lived though. He got LUCKY your friend didn't go back over there and put a brick through his car window or something... Most scammers would never dream of scamming anyone who could physically get at them easily.

i dont know if this means anything, but her eyes look like pastel eyes, or at least like my pastels eyes, and my normal jus has pure black eyes. is that a variable from snake to snake or morph to morph??
maybe a normal whos mom or dad was a pastel?

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Originally Posted by ERP

i dont know if this means anything, but her eyes look like pastel eyes, or at least like my pastels eyes, and my normal jus has pure black eyes. is that a variable from snake to snake or morph to morph??
maybe a normal whos mom or dad was a pastel?

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Sometimes a normal will have lighter eyes....the gold stripe on the face will cross the eye, as it does in this one. It doesn't really matter if that one had a pastel parent....it's still a normal. It IS possible that the guy selling it was just as uneducated as the person buying and assumed the lighter eye meant it was a pastel and he didn't mean to rip anyone off..... :confuzd: But that's all water under the bridge and really has no relevance to the lessons learned here. Good lessons.

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Originally Posted by akaangela

I did probe her, so I know she is a female. I bought her from a private party and they have stopped answering my calls :( I am really bummbed about this. I do have to say she has the calmest temperment of any ball python I have so that is an upside. I paid 350 for her and she is about 250g. It was at the local pet store where I ran into them. I was buying feeders we started talking balls and they said they had a beautiful pastel. Well I was tempted because they said she was about 500g and pounding rats and would most likely be ready for this season. I thought IF I could get my little pastel boy up to speed I could produce MAYBE a super pastel next year. I got ripped all the way around, as she won't eat anything but PINKY rats :( The sellers name is Don Gunther.

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Well screw him and other people like this!!!! This is extremely upsetting that people are like this out in the world. As said in alot of post before "WE" are a rather small comunity and we hope that one day "THE MAN" won't ban our snakes completely but yet there are people out there that claim they have and do things that oviiously the don't or can't. I am truly sorry for you getting shafted on this deal....However it is a beautifull snake and I asume that it is in good health? Than u should be somewhat ok. I would maybe try to go to the petstore and ask them to maybe set up a "TRAP" for him. Maybe something like if he comes in asking him for a number that they can get ahold of him about purchesing snakes from him in the future. You might also beable to get the police involved for selling something under false pretences!!! Hope some of this helps.-Ray Good luck.

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Originally Posted by scales owner

Well screw him and other people like this!!!! This is extremely upsetting that people are like this out in the world. As said in alot of post before "WE" are a rather small comunity and we hope that one day "THE MAN" won't ban our snakes completely but yet there are people out there that claim they have and do things that oviiously the don't or can't. I am truly sorry for you getting shafted on this deal....However it is a beautifull snake and I asume that it is in good health? Than u should be somewhat ok. I would maybe try to go to the petstore and ask them to maybe set up a "TRAP" for him. Maybe something like if he comes in asking him for a number that they can get ahold of him about purchesing snakes from him in the future. You might also beable to get the police involved for selling something under false pretences!!! Hope some of this helps.-Ray Good luck.

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pssssst....read the whole thread. ;) The situation was resolved in an acceptable manner.

YEAH ANGELA!!!

I'm so happy to hear that things worked out better than before..

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