Quote Originally Posted by JLC View Post
I don't think that's what I was saying. I'm just pointing out that the problem is a lot more complicated than a buyer asking for a spider and being sent a normal.

I DO think it is in the best interest of a GOOD business to have a contingency in place and written into their TOS about how they would try to make an unproven het right with their customer. What that contingency is may vary somewhat between different breeding businesses.

IF you choose to buy a het from a small-time hobby breeder who barely makes ends meet each month....then you are taking on some additional risk because no matter how much integrity that person has, they may simply not have the ability to "make it right" five years down the road. If you buy a het from someone like Bailey & Bailey, then your risk may be considerably less because even if he doesn't have the money to reimburse (he probably would) he would at least have some animals to compensate with.

But no matter who you buy from...you're still going to be out the years put into the project and no one is going to reimburse for that. That's what I was trying to say.
your first post had a lot of good points to it as well as this one. my post isn't as much as who's right or wrong, but to make some of the members aware of this photo I.D. thing. the "buyer beware", I do feel that some of it falls back on the buyer, mostly with who you buy from. maybe this is why I will only buy hets from certain breeders and they are the local breeders that I know. to me it takes a lot of effort to get a female to breeding size, plus your breeding project is now set back on someone elses mistake. and if the answer is O while you shouldn't of bought a 100% het, you know that it was a risk. then this is the kind of breeder that I would not want to do business with. to me 100% means that this is what it is period, no buts.