Craigslist Successes and Disappointments

[Lord Sorril]

I sell some WT bps on Craigslist occasionally. It is disheartening that about 50% of the people msg me back 'I lost my Ball Python, how do I find it?'
I make it a standard question now to ask "You have a locking enclosure...right?" to which most of them reply 'What is an enclosure?'

[Alter-Echo]

I have found the people on Craigslist to be a bunch of knuckledragging morons, all the ones I met knew nothing about the animals and didn't really care about anything but the money.

I probably won't be getting anything from Craigslist.

[Phillydubs]

I’ve been lucky Cage and enclosure wise on Craig’s and once on eBay.

It is antrie crap shoot and hit or miss.

I concur with all frustrated by folks who don’t remove listings!

the guy I got my 2 4 foot enclosures was very knowledgeable and had many reptiles but most were massive monitors and a few big snakes tang made these 4 footers look like shoe boxes so he sold them off for a good price they were clean as could be and in perfect Condition.

I think if you go in knowing what to expect and how to navigate you are good.

Although I’ve been cursed out by keyboard tough guys because they don’t like an offer I make on something wayyyyy over priced so you just never know!

[Ronniex2]

I’m thinking of buying one too .. I will deff do all thequestion asking but I guess my question here would be...

if you invest in one of these animals, how much stock should/would your put init? far as "re-homing" as the one guy said about the gun shop, someof these animals I feel sad for, one guy on CL had his BP in an oldentertainment center looked like a chameleon cage with screen door(not lid) andwooden enclosure - no substrate at all!! Like dude do you know what this animalrequired before you purchased it? a
but like even if you pay that guy that $ to save his snake .. you put it inyour collection and try to bred it, to what ? are you going to risk wastingyour time with a animal that was supposed to be "Het" and turns outto be normal, then you end up " re-homing" (not that I would but forarguments sake)...

Basically, would you mate this(these) animal with one of your"gene'd" animals or even invest in it at all far as proving out?
If your just doing animal rescue fine, but most of us want to see what we canproduce from our "children" and what new stuff we can create. I thinkthis is a big gamble and some ppl are just skeptical (IE me)... but if it worksfor ppl then I guess I will gamble too lol.

[Sunnieskys]

When I started my journey to getting a BP I bought a cage with all lights, bowl ect off craigslist for $20. Easy transaction.

[Skeptiball]

I bought an enchi bumblebee and a bumblebee, both females, for $150 off craigslist and two months later the bumblebee played 6 eggs. I got 2 spiders, 1 pastel, 1 kingpin, and 2 queen spins.

8 snakes for $150, I'm thinking that was a pretty good deal.

Yeah, that sounds like a sweet deal!

[Skeptiball]

I sell some WT bps on Craigslist occasionally. It is disheartening that about 50% of the people msg me back 'I lost my Ball Python, how do I find it?'
I make it a standard question now to ask "You have a locking enclosure...right?" to which most of them reply 'What is an enclosure?'

Oh man, that breaks my heart. It's sad when people have no clue what they're getting into because at the end of the day it's the snake that suffers.