Quote Originally Posted by rabernet View Post
It's the seller's option to sell it however he chooses. I'm quite sure that most if not all breeders who were at Daytona had animals at shows that were also on their available pages. If there are no deposits made on that animal, then it's not unprofessional to sell it at a show. No one owns it but the seller. Just because the buyer comes through a show, rather than an e-mail, a sale is a sale.

If the breeder chose not to respond to Josh's initial e-mail until he returned from the show, would Josh be as up in arms about it? And then came back and said - thank you for your interest, but the animal has sold.

If Josh didn't want the seller to sell this animal at the show - he should have put a deposit on it.

Perhaps the breeder should have been a little more polite to Josh, but the facts don't change - he simply did not have time today to post any pictures.

I am getting an animal from Adam. He has been incredibly busy - and I have not seen pictures of animals to choose from. I know his intentions are good, and when he has time, he'll get pictures to me. I don't demand that he takes 5-10 minutes to quickly snap some pictures and get them to me. I find that unreasonable from where I sit.

Sure I'm anxious to pick out my animal, and I'd love to have had pictures yesterday. But I am also understanding of Adam's current time restraints.
To me what is comes down to is a shot at $4,000(Breeders POV) for 15 minutes worth of work, in an already hectic schedule. You make time. You can be the busiest person in the world, and still have 15 minutes of downtime. Sleeping is downtime in my opinion.

I find it unfathomable that you can have a shot at $4,000 and turn it down, because you didn't want to take 3-4 pictures.

Did anyone demand him to take pictures? No.