I'm pretty much at a loss for words right now. I had a 100% het butterscotch ghost adult breeder male ball python that I bought a couple years ago. About a year ago I let a guy take him with an agreement that he would give me a hatchling out of another clutch when they hatched in a couple months. A month later he e-mails me and says he's not breeding BPs anymore and I can come pick up my snake, but I couldn't get ahold of him after that to coordinate a pickup. He didn't respond to my e-mail or anything.
He like, dropped off the face of the planet. After months of calling and e-mailing with no answer to my calls or e-mails I finally got ahold of his wife tonight. And... apparently they brought in a new BP (despite saying they were getting out of snakes) and didn't QT it, it had a disease and my snake got whatever it had and died.
...She didn't even offer to make it right, was just like "Sorry! *click*". I'm kind of dumbstruck.
