Think I'm in the process of getting ripped off...

[Kaorte]

Ask him to mail your snake back to you. I think that you should not go through with the trade at this point. Who knows if he even has the animal he says he does.

I understand you wanting to wait to make the BOI thread, but he clearly does not feel threatened by that. Does he even have an account on Fauna? If he is new to the hobby, he might not even have any idea it exists, which means, he probably wouldn't even notice the thread until you notified him of it.


In the future, don't do deals with people that don't have feedback of some sort. Whether its buyer or seller feedback, any feedback is better than no feedback. Facebook can be easily manipulated to make you look like a stand up guy when really you are trying to scam people out of animals.

The excuses are a huge red flag to me, as well as the lack of communication.


As for future trades, either conduct them in person with people you trust, reputable breeders, or don't do them at all.

What it could do is protect or spare somebody else from having this problem with him.

Sorry but one day is not going to make a whole lot of a difference. It is unlikely that this person is scamming a bunch of people all at once and doesn't have a BOI about them already. Many people who post negative BOIs usually wait until the very end of their experience and post a full summary. While a BOI is helpful for other people to judge the character of sellers/buyers, it is equally not helpful for those who don't even realize the BOI exists, like many of the people that frequent the reptile classifieds on facebook.

OP has a duty to honor his word. Whether the other party will honor their word is unclear at this time. But at least OP knows they were courteous and more than accommodating when they go and make a negative BOI post, rather than going behind the other persons back.