Bag of Snakes for 100$

Is this legit? I just found an old thread from last spring mentioning getting 25+ snakes for 100$ but there wild caught. I started doing a little google search and ended up seeing a list of the snakes. In this bag of 25 snakes only 11 looked to be typical 'wild' pattern snakes. I saw a lot of genetic strips and a lot of spider variations as well as a almost completely gold looking snake with random brown spots. Almost like a piebald but instead of white it was gold.

So at first glance I couldnt believe it and was like sign me up for 10 bags. Then the more I rolled it around the head the more I realised these snakes are probably being recovered by some unethical means. But I really couldnt find much against the cons of getting wild caught other than not knowing what you are getting and what kind of illnesses it might have. Other than that are there an ethical cons to this. And if not has anyone gotten one of these treasure bags. If so then where from? Let me know.

It is true you can buy lots of imports. But I'd bet my entire collection you wont find a spider or a g-strip. Weak pastel maybe, YB more likely, I've seen real Weak calicos, I got a het red axanthic from one. But Id bet that 99.999999995% of the time you'll get all normals

Sounds like a spin-off of the infamous "Ball Python Lottery," which was nothing more than a marketing ploy to sell mixed lots of captive hatched normals to unrealistically hopeful buyers such as yourself.

People, morphs carry a high price because people want them and I don't know of anyone in this business who would be dumb enough to intentionally give them away (with the exception of this one polish guy outside of Baltimore :) ).

If you really want a morph, save your pennies and buy from a legit breeder.

my .02...

i was searching the lottery not to long ago and came across a post that someone had found a really nice looking bp in there bag, and it turned out to be somethin really cool. i cant remember what it was right now. ill try to find it

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Originally Posted by patthesnakeman

i was searching the lottery not to long ago and came across a post that someone had found a really nice looking bp in there bag, and it turned out to be somethin really cool. i cant remember what it was right now. ill try to find it

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searching what lottery?

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Originally Posted by elevatethis

Sounds like a spin-off of the infamous "Ball Python Lottery," which was nothing more than a marketing ploy to sell mixed lots of captive hatched normals to unrealistically hopeful buyers such as yourself.

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although i would probably never purchase wild caught bp's im curious who's selling $100 mystery bags that contain morphs. Cuz i may break my own rules and get a bag of 'em.

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Originally Posted by pitbullNpythons

im curious who's selling $100 mystery bags that contain morphs

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No one. Do a search on 'ball python lottery' and you can read all about someone's marketing campain to move out CH baby ball pythons right after they hit U.S. soil.

ha ha....for $100 you can get some actual morphs these days anyway....so why not buy a quality CBB animal instead of wasting time being sucked into someone's marketing ploy from last import season.

I'm really surprised anyone would consider buying wild caught bps. Even for the low prices, i wouldn't support the wild caught pet trade! :colbert:

i know the guy from www.ballroompythonssouth.com does the lottery in like, August I think. . .I think its $150 for a bag of 10 "Wild caught snakes straight from Africa" and the way he explained it to me was "They come in in a crate full of bags of 10 snakes, then without opening the bags, they separate the bags into boxes and ship them out to the people who paid for the lottery". . .thats just what he told me over the phone, but if you're curious i'm positive you could jump over to his site and give him a call. . .I think his name was Michael Cole

Whoever is "gathering" these WCs know if they come across something out of the norm, which of course wouldn't end up in this unopened bag.

I am not saying there is absolutely no possibility of getting something interesting...I suppose anything can happen.

Are they bps or did it just say snakes? I was searching for cheap feeders last night and one of the web sits just said feeder snakes for 9.75$ each. Some people who keep hots or large monitors will feed snakes to them. Maybe it's just a bag of feeders and if that's the case it's a rip off (25 for 100$). You can find them a lot cheaper and cb instead of wc, if thats what you're looking for. If they're talking about bps it sounds too good to be true. Sorry to be a downer but usually if it's too good to be true than it's false. Please just be careful I'd hate to see you get ripped off either way.

People, people, please read all the responses to the thread.
First off, the OP is going off of information from an OLD thread. As Daniel mentioned, do a search for "ball python lottery" to see what the older members are talking about.

Oh and, Michael Cole or anyone that was selling CH ball imports would not be doing it in August. It would be late April or early May.