Hey everyone ive seen a few posts here and there about this so im just wondering how many times has it happened to you? Most of my freinds who own ball pythons (3) all 3 have had snakes sold to them as the wrong gender to make more money or just to get rid of the animal.

These is my stories (2) 1st i recently bought a "female" pastel from Niagara Reptiles the seller was on kijiji she claimed to be the daughter of the man who owns this company, she litterally emailed me as niagara reptiles. I was offered a female pastel at 350gr for $200. I was looking for a female pastel missed out on others before so i was determined to get this one. I get the line oh we r moving soon so can u be here befor this day. I felt it might b fishy either way, so i drive out see the animal she is in deep shed n was a bit skinny, im not an expert on popping but can probe np, the sellers bf ended up showing me the snake in their driveway at 1130 at night, (again bad sign) i asked female? told yes id pop for u but shes deep in blue. so i let it slide bougth the snake on good faith n went home. After the 2 week quarentine i decied to weigh her up, i just finished weighing my other females i put "her" in to weigh she start toungue flickng n actin weird i lift her out to find 2 little hemi pens hanging out of his vent. awesome

2nd happend to me along time ago about a year n a half ago, found an add on kijiji selling 2 normals 1-250gr 2nd-650gr and a male pastel that was about 300 gr. all 3 snakes were woefullyght under wieght just like the other bad buy. seller wasnt allowed ball pythons due to city by law but his red tail boas were ok..? either way 3 snakes for 250 wasnt a bad deal to me so i bought them the largest female turned out to be a male found that out after feeding him for 5 months to get over 1600gr to breed n it was a dude. he beat up my little spider male when i tried to breed, this way the buy that made me learn how to sex my animals.