Quote Originally Posted by MarkS View Post
I agree, while I've gotten hets from Ralph and the animals were great and everything I ever hoped they would be, I've also received a LOT of hets from people who weren't Ralph and have never been scammed yet. It's unfortunate that there always seems to be so much emphasis on 'outing the scammers' that sometimes it sounds like half the people in the herp hobby are scamming the other half when in reality it's really a very small number of people who are dishonest.
It only takes the one incident that I've ever heard of legitimate case of faked papers (and it turned out that the guy faked like 10+ pairs of het pieds when het pieds were really expensive) to ruin the het market the way it has. Most people won't buy hets, as evidenced above in my previous quote, unless there is a reputable name behind it.

I made the first jump into hets with a pair of het VPI axanthics, and let me tell you it still scares me to have paid $50 a piece for what could potentially be $15 normals. But, at the same time, I don't have money to jump into an axanthic so why not make my own. Gambling is an addiction for a reason.