question for those of you that have sold on Kingsnake or Faunaclassifieds...

[Blue Apple Herps]

Good tips from others here. It really just depends. I agree with getting on fauna, and building up your rep a little. That's the biggest hurdle to selling on the internet when you're new. If no one has ever heard of you or you have no trail of good dealings, people are going to be hesitant to spend their money, especially with how many scammers there are and people selling poor-quality and sickly snakes out there.

I'm not saying that's you by any means, but if I as a customer can choose between someone with no reputation or any feedback, or someone who has an amazing reputation, I'm going to go with the person with the reputation. So at first it may be more difficult to move things, don't get discouraged. It will happen.

Also, learn how to properly ship and pack snakes. If you send a snake packed well, it is going to arrive alive and healthy, and that person will be pleased and more likely to buy from you again or tell others. Don't skimp on packing. Even if the snake shows up alive, but you packed it poorly, people won't buy from you again, as next time the snake won't be so lucky to survive sub par packaging.

And lastly, take good pictures of your animals to try to represent them as best as you can. Too many people post up fuzzy cell phone pics or they take pictures with the flash on bright mode to try to make the snake look like something its not. Last thing you want to do is to represent a snake in a picture one way, and then have it arrive to your customer actually looking completely different.

These sites are good and can get you a lot of traffic. You will get a lot of low balls (last year I had someone offer me $350 for a savannah bp I was asking $1200 for, and they got pissed off when I told them their offer was too low, and started trying to drop big names and how they're so well known and would regret not selling to them, etc etc).

Don't let idiots like that scare you off or try to bully you one way or the other. They're just internet tough guys. Even if someone low balls you, try to be polite and respectful. Nothing is a bigger turn off than a seller losing their cool (even if they have every right to).

You will also answer tons of emails and questions, and then never hear back from them again. I think it is super rude, but people just don't feel they need to spend 15 seconds to email you and say "thanks but I'm not interested." So just be prepared for that.

And my last advice, don't mark anything sold or turn down any sales until you have actual money in your hands. When I first started I was too nice and people would say "Hold him for me, I'll pay you on pay day in two weeks". So I'd hold the snake, turn down a few sale offers, only to have that person go MIA or to say "I can't afford it anymore, or just give me two more weeks" etc. Now I won't hold anything w/o a non-refundable deposit of some sort or paid in full.

Unfortunately no one's word is enough these days (unless you've dealt with them a few times and truly know their word is good enough). I lost out on so many quick sales holding snakes off of someone's word, only for them to back out.

Anyways, I've rambled long enough. They're good avenues to try through, it can be frustrating, and you'll deal with a lot of BS, but just be patient, it'll happen.