Ethical question

[JLC]

Well, here's my take on this subject:

Any breeder/dealer/seller who buys "hets" from someone and then sells them....only to find out later that they are not really hets at all....they are going to do what they want. SOME are going to own up to the situation and do their best to make good for their customer. Some are going to decide they don't think it's fair that they get shafted for something someone else did, so they won't do anything at all.

I'm not going to demand that someone make the same moral or ethical choice that I would make in this situation...however, their choice will make it very easy for me to decide who I will do business with in the future.

If I were in the shoes of the person who bought and sold the hets...I would not hesitate to do whatever I could to contact my customers and do my best to make them whole again. This might include offering to give them other snakes, if I had them to give...or offering a refund on the monies spent for hets that turned out to be normals.

I would be pretty upset to know that I got shafted by so-n-so...but the LAST thing I would want to do is feel responsible for shafting anyone else, whether I'd done so knowingly or not. A person willing to "pass the shaft" on to his/her customers is not someone I would want to do business with.

[catawhat75]

Judy, that was very well put.

[Morphie]

Well, here's my take on this subject:

Any breeder/dealer/seller who buys "hets" from someone and then sells them....only to find out later that they are not really hets at all....they are going to do what they want. SOME are going to own up to the situation and do their best to make good for their customer. Some are going to decide they don't think it's fair that they get shafted for something someone else did, so they won't do anything at all.

I'm not going to demand that someone make the same moral or ethical choice that I would make in this situation...however, their choice will make it very easy for me to decide who I will do business with in the future.

If I were in the shoes of the person who bought and sold the hets...I would not hesitate to do whatever I could to contact my customers and do my best to make them whole again. This might include offering to give them other snakes, if I had them to give...or offering a refund on the monies spent for hets that turned out to be normals.

I would be pretty upset to know that I got shafted by so-n-so...but the LAST thing I would want to do is feel responsible for shafting anyone else, whether I'd done so knowingly or not. A person willing to "pass the shaft" on to his/her customers is not someone I would want to do business with.

nuff said! Seriously, you just ended all need to further discuss this issue. So why am i still talking? I ... really... don't know..