Buyers beware!

[broadude]

Umm just because you place a snake into another tank with paper towels to look for mites is not enough to prevent mites from getting into your other tank.Infact mite eggs can be on the snake and hatch out later in your other setup.I am sorry you feel we are wrong for saying he is correct by doing what he is willing to do for you.No breeder or flipper is going to pay the extra shipping cost to replace a $7 snake(or whatever you paid for it).I am sorry to be blunt but i think you are slaming him for no good reason.To see how others feel take your story to www.faunaclassifieds.com, to see what they think.There is allready a thread asking if anyone has dealt with him and i placed a link to 1 positive post on him.

The OP offered to pay shipping himself.

One positive post 2 years ago is no indication of his business practices now, and he was sellling Corns..these are BPs...how do we even know it's the same person (a lot of newbies have been stealing/copying names of the more established breeders)? I did ask him to post it on Fauna where people had more experience getting to the heart of a matter and could read the posts more carefully...sorry to be so blunt.

Slamming... If I brought a snake and it died as soon as I got it home, I would certainly have questions. If the snake was too "weak" to make the trip without dying, the breeder should know what kind of stock he has (imo) I would want to know!

I have made a mistake shipping and the snakes arrived very cold..they are still alive to this day and they were cold for longer than it's "assumed" that the snake in question was cold.

On the other hand...it would have to get close to 100 degrees for the snake to die of heat and I don't think that is what happened here. I do wish he had posted the pics of the dead snake at the SAME time as this thread, it may have given a different viewpoint on his concerns.

From the answers some have given,...a lot of us are learning who NOT to buy from.