Ballbids.com

[WingedWolfPsion]

I suspect what's going to happen is, either they'll turn out to be frauds, or people will start getting their snakes.
If they start getting their snakes, then plenty of people will use the site and bid, for the chance to get morphs for 5 bucks.

As for quarantine...if they all came from the same breeder, and are housed separately, that is unnecessary. If they start buying from multiple breeders, then there may be an issue. Even so, it's no different from buying from any of the other retailers like LLL, or Big Apple Herp, or Reptimart. They all have their detractors and fans, but they're still in business. These guys are just acting as distributors. Yes, they are flipping snakes--that's what a reseller is.

As for the folks receiving the snakes...always quarantine ANY snake you buy, no matter who it came from. My quarantine is 12 months, yours should be, too.

I'll leave my 'like' up because I kind of want a female fire. If it starts to look bad, I'll hit 'unlike'. At this point, tons of people hate the idea of this site, and their reasons are somewhat legitimate, but I don't necessarily think that they will be successful in shutting the site down if it proves legitimate.

Yes, people do want a $5 butter female that badly.

For myself, I'm no risk taker, so I would never buy bids on the site. I don't buy lotto tickets, and I've never been to a Casino, either.

People seem to care about this an awful lot. For myself, I'll save the caring about it until there's some reason to believe that it is either a scam, or they're handing out sick animals. All the other arguments seem to be nothing that couldn't be pointed at any pet store or reseller. The female butter I saw sell tonight, closed at $6.10. That's $366 they get for her, while the winning bidder would pay $6.10 plus the cost of however many bids they used. Since they didn't spend $366 on their bids, that isn't entirely horrifying.

I'm not sure how long this thing will last before it falls apart, but it's an interesting idea, and it sure did get a lot of attention, both good and bad.

It would be a really bad thing for compulsive gamblers, I guess.