Re: Repticon Atlanta 09, huge any computer warning :p
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Originally Posted by
asplundii
Deborah,
If the bone you have to pick with him is that he was selling animals that had not had their first shed then I think you need to add at least 7 other vendors (that I distinctly remember) to that list. And those other vendors were selling at more "typical" prices... Maybe that is why no one has bothered mentioning their executing that same gross violation :confused:
And again I ask, how can you guarantee that all those animals he was selling had not had their first shed? Did you ask him specifically? Cause if you did not then, yeah, it is speculation. You are speculating that they had not had their first shed and therefore you are speculating that they are not eating.
Again, I am not defending his prices. But if that is the problem you have with him then just stick to that and quit making things up to add to the "crime". He is a flipper is reason enough for people to not like it. Do we really need to tack on baseless accusations of "they are not eating" or "they have not yet shed" to justify not liking it? What is next, is someone going to accuse him of having IBD animals? Give me a break.
He had ridiculously low prices cause he was flipping. No further "justification" is needed. That people are stretching to come up with further justification, to me, makes it sound like sour grapes more than anything else.
It wasn't just him selling animals that hadn't had their first shed, there were a couple vendors there doing that, and they were ALL rediculous for doing so. The animals obviously hadn't shed, you can tell when a hatchling has shed his/her initial skin, there is an obvious look to ball python hatchlings before shed, thats not speculation. This guy who is being referenced just had two strikes against him because he was obviously selling animals that havent even had their first shed yet, and therefore haven't even had their first meal yet, but he was also selling them wholesale at rediculous prices! I know you say you overheard him selling them with a "guarantee" to be eating, this is impossible, and even though he might help a potential customer that he gives this "guarantee" to, to help them get the hatchling eating, it is still poor business practices in my opinion, and hatchling should have ATLEAST 3 or 4 meals in it before being sold. So there was definate issues with that vendor at the show and I don't understand why you are so adimately defending this guy to the point of jumping on other members of the forum is a little over the top in my opinion. After all, everyone is entitled to disagree with what someone else does aren't we?
