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[bcr229]

I think it varies tho where the snake comes from...

Exactly. The snake I have coming in once the weather improves will be $78 actual cost, because it's being shipped from CA to WV. Longer trip = higher price.

[scooter11]

I have shipped to California from mass and it usually costs somewhere between 95-120for overnight. The cheapest its ever cost was 35 to ship to NY. I'm not sure about FedEx certified, but mine are syr since I don't ship a tom Most of the time I lose money on shipping because no one will pay that much.

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[PitOnTheProwl]

Yeah, I was just playing and plugging some zip codes and they are almost double what they use to be a year or two ago.

[MonkeyShuttle]

We need to design a way to get shipping down to $15-20. Sometimes that little guy you find online is just in your price range until you factor in $70 for shipping. I usually end up just waiting for expos and have to pass up on a lot of nice stuff. Wether its a shipping process or a new container that allows for shipping to extend to a few days with the animal still arriving in perfect health.


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[bcr229]

We need to design a way to get shipping down to $15-20.

I don't think that's possible. Even a USPS Regional Rate B, which is about the smallest box available for herps, is $10 for 2-3 business day delivery with minimal tracking, no insurance, etc. That's before having to add things like insulation, heat pack, a box appropriate for a herp (a Regional B box isn't strong enough), etc.

Tying this back in to the auction site, perhaps another function to add is the ability to query on the seller's state, which would give buyers the option to limit results conductive to a face-to-face transaction and avoid shipping. I can put a lot of gas in the car for even $50...

[MonkeyShuttle]

Tying this back in to the auction site, perhaps another function to add is the ability to query on the seller's state, which would give buyers the option to limit results conductive to a face-to-face transaction and avoid shipping. I can put a lot of gas in the car for even $50...[/QUOTE]

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[Pythonfriend]

getting an external company to pick up a box, and to deliver it rapidly across the nation to a specific adress, probarbly via airplane, just costs a lot.

if there is a way to cut down these costs, i think it has to be community-driven. we have local breeders and local reptile shows. now if there would be ways to bring a reptile to one reptile show, and someone else can pick it up at a different reptile show in a different country one week later, that would be awesome, that means you could sort of chain it together.

i think its already being done internationally between the big breeders. because of all the paperwork, CITES and so on, shipping costs are often in the thousands. so when one breeder in the USA wants a specific animal from Tokyo, and he regularly goes to the big reptile show in Germany with his reptiles, and knows a fellow breeder there who always takes his reptiles to a reptile show in Tokyo... you get the idea, payment from USA to Tokyo via bank wire, the german breeder picks it up at the reptile show there and brings it to Germany, and then you hand it over at the reptile show in Germany, where the US breeder who purchased it will be.

of course it only works when the people involved really know and trust each other. or, a big breeder who visits a lot of different reptile shows may offer it as a service, to take reptiles from one show to the next, or from his base of operation to a show, or from a show to his base.

but then, its still complicated and there is work involved, so unless its all based on friendship, and cooperation for mutual benefit, it could still be more expensive. but the basic idea is that its cheaper when the reptile is part of a really large shipment of reptiles, so the savings are real, the question is how to organize it.

[sorraia]

Just took a quick look, but I like it! I don't currently have any snakes for sale, but if/when I do, thus looks like a great resource for someone like me to get started.

[FireStorm]

Just thought it was worth updating the thread. I believe the site has a new address. It is now reptilering.com

[Pythonfriend]

Just thought it was worth updating the thread. I believe the site has a new address. It is now reptilering.com

true, there is now a redirect. maybe its now more unique in google or something.

anyway, it seems to be growing, more breeders are now on board. when this thread started and i first checked, i found a lot of BPs from Mike Wilbanks, and one BP from a different breeder. Now its much more diverse.

the usernames still need to be displayed more often, and whenever there is a username, you should be able to click it.

also, frame the ads. when i look at what any breeder has for sale, there is that big fat colorful "PREHISTORIC PETS" banner beneath it. there should be some indication that its an ad. like google does it, find subtle ways to enable people to easily see whats actual content and whats advertisement.