Originally Posted by JoshJP7
Well that's good news Josh. Congrats!
Look, I used to (as a side hobby) breed some rarer dwarf and rift lake cichlids. It was not uncommon to have up to a dozen daily inquiries depending on the type of fish.
Let's say out of those dozen inquiries, four wanted photos of the individual fish and eight were interested in buying without the photos. I'd tell the four straight up that the representative pics in my ad were all I had and that when I had the time, I would take some addtional photos of the actual fish they wanted. I would be up front in saying that in the meantime, if someone came along who paid for the animal - it was sold.
Does that make me a scumbag? I'd like to think not.
Does that make the person who wanted photos unreasonable? Definately not. Although it is much more difficult to take individual photographs of dozens of apistogramma fry and telmatochromis dhonti than a few young snakes......
All it means is that the first person to plunk his money down got the fish. If after a couple of days I had no other offers and was able to post some pics to satisfy those who needed to see the exact fish in question - well good for them.
I've bought most of my snakes on line, and I did not and would not buy them without pictures of the animal. If however, the breeder was able to sell the snake to someone willing to buy it sight unseen - I understood.
If someone is planning to make a business selling snakes, they should invest an evening into photographing and labeling each snake for either their website, their ad or just for e-mailing to potential customers.
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