TONY D

I’m going to get blasted for sure and I should know better but IMHO there seems to be a lack of maturity all the way around here. Neither party is acting like an adult and the career BOI antagonists aren't much better.

Jerry, stop responding to baited posts. Doing so doesn’t help and comes across worse than you imagine. Responding to anybody but Stu with anything but straight facts is just plain crazy when you know that every email and text is going to get posted and to an audience that contains a fair number of hostiles. Good god man, put down the com devise, step back and think!

Stu, it’s been said by impartial authority that if these animals did develop ZD there is no way of knowing when, where or how they got it, or who is responsible. Did they come in with it, don’t know. Did they contract it at your place, don’t know. Was it triggered by shipping stress don’t know. What we do know is that there are always TWO parties involved BUT the seller is always going to have to eat it ALL or deal with the kind of consequences we see here. Yes the BIO and other public forums have made it so we can force a “buyer wins / seller looses” scenario that is pretty much unprecedented in the trade of live animals but this being the reality doesn’t make it right. Rick noted the unfairness of this in one of his posts and I agree and I think it quite likely that anyone who doesn’t has never found themselves on the short side of this equation. Anyway, given this I’d like to see a little grace on your part. Jerry said he would make it right by month’s end. If he hasn’t paid by a reasonable grace period beyond that, well by all means let it fly, punish him all you want but in the interim, reporting every little hiccup in real time is childish too.