Quote Originally Posted by Homegrownscales View Post
Of course there are always those people who themselves were lied to and they don't know any better.

Ya know, I can't accept that excuse. (I know you're not trying to make an excuse for this ... But I gotta rant for a second. )

First of all, these are live animals we're talking about here. Before you breed two live animals together, you had better have a pretty good idea what you're doing. This isn't even one of those ambiguous morphs that trips up a lot of people, like a specter or a super low-expression calico or even a yellowbelly. This is a pastel, one of if not THE most common morph in the industry. And, no offense to the OP's animal, but that isn't even one of those super-light, "dinker" looking normals that some people confuse for pastels. That is a very very normal-looking normal.

I'm just getting my first few clutches on the ground in the past few years, and I have had no problems picking out various morphs from the bunch (including things like super pastel versus pastel and pastave versus mojave). I had one that confused me a bit this year, spent a half an hour or so looking at tons of pictures on the Internet and educated my eye better and figured it out. If the breeder was so new that he or she couldn't tell a pastel from a normal from across the room, perhaps he or she should have done a tad more research before deciding to breed two live animals together.

... Secondly, never mind the fact that they are alive ... If you sell something, ANYTHING, to another person, you really ought to have at least some idea of what it is before you put it up for sale -- or else say that up front. If someone hands me a comic book and tells me its the 1st printing of the 1st edition of Sandman, and I put it up on E-Bay as such without doing the necessary whopping 10 minutes or so of research needed to tell me that I got had, the person who buys it, unwraps it and finds a common old 75 cent third edition isn't going to take my ignorance for an excuse. (Note: I don't collect comic books -- at least not like that -- so I have no idea the actual values of these things ...)

Yes, I know, caveat emptor ... But I still do not believe that ignorance is any excuse on the part of the seller.

/Rant. To the OP, sorry this happened to you. If your little guy was intended as a pet, and you like him, then that's what is most important.