Thanks for both of your replies, there were a number of reasons I hadn't come forward sooner, one was the simple fact I had never used a forum setting before and only recently have crawled out of my cave. Just E-mail, an odd game or two and checking out classifieds are about my total scope of use for my wife's computer. I have long since given up on this being resolved and just felt that posting this was the right thing to do. Another was just pure anger and embarassment on my part for buying an expensive animal without seeing it in the flesh first, my wife told me to stop punishing myself , share the experience and listen to the couple of customers who knew of it and take their advice.....post it.
People like this don't just give our hobby a black eye in my opinion, they make it very hard to teach the next generation about our hobby AND they give the goverment and the Humane Society the ammo they need to try and make our hobbies illegal so the next generation won't have to deal with the problem. If we in hobby, both old and new, don't police ourselves then history has shown someone else will. If people come together and stick together when a sick animal is sold via the internet then the name of the person/business who did this will either fix the problem or their name/business will fade away. I've been in this hobby for over 26+ years and hopefully I'll be here for another 26+. I really just tend to keep to myself, work on my red gene for my amazons and enjoy life (I'm starting a breeding project for the Blue Tree Monitors....very exciting) so if this post helps others in not having the experience I did, then what I originally posted this for on a seperate forum will have come to pass. Many a new person to the hobby would walk away from the mess I was in and just quit the hobby. By no means am I a "new" person and posting this just started to make sense that it might help steer away the new hobbyists from a pitfall.
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Ralph Chapman