I'd say good call on that. I knew someone recently who was just 'up in the air' about reptiles. She went out and bought a couple (a snake, a beardie, a leopard gecko, two sungazers and a tokay gecko). Low and behold, the animals started to suffer horribly. Since she was one of my boyfriend's roommates, I was over a lot. I started telling her how to improve their set-ups, and I was shut down for being a 'know it all'. Soon the beardie started having seizures. The BP wouldn't eat. The sungazers wouldn't move and had terrible sheds and what looked like... decaying scales? The leopard gecko ended up with an eye infection. The Tokay she 'sold' in a week (to me, because she was trying to sell it to some guy who thought it 'looked cool' and would be 'neat to have in his garage').

..... Now she has sold all of her animals except the snake. Within 5 months. The only reason her animals survived is because she finally listened to me... because she 'couldn't afford a vet and might as well try everything'.

GOOD CALL on not giving that guy your snake. People like that want them because they 'look cool' or 'are cool'. I mean, if you can't even turn your music down, do we really think he would act appropriately if the snake was showing signs of illness? Would he even care?

No, you made the right choice. Otherwise you'd get a phonecall one day about how the snake is 'sick', and go over to find a burned, skinny, lethargic snake. You'd probably be told: "It didn't look like this last week." And other nonsense.

And if your snake is as sweet and non-headshy as you say it is... It's worth better owners.