Ahh! Someone talk me down... making sudden purchases online at 10pm....

[waltah!]

Yeah thats why I said I have good transactions as a buyer, but that doesnt mean that the seller is going to come around and say how smooth the transactions went.

How are we as up and coming breeders supposed to make a name for myself when the community's best advice is buy from the big breeders and dont buy from anyone who you cant find information about? That is what is crap.

I didn't say only big breeders. You can find tons of info about smaller breeders. The main point I was making in my original post was it's a bad call to be up late and falling into the "I want a lesser so I'm going to just order one" state of mind. I was saying to take the time to find out about the seller rather than clicking "buy it now" and crossing his fingers. There are plenty of people who I would buy from that are very small breeders. I will say that the only person I've purchased a snake from without researching was a local breeder. I picked up at his house and was able to inspect everything before buying. It was a great experience and I posted that great experience on the BOI. If more people took the time to do that instead of just complaining with "bad guy" threads it would be easier to get info on smaller breeders.