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Eugene, do you understand what importing ball pythons from Africa entails?
1) you will have to take an order usually around $3000-5000 minimum to start and you have to pay that up front via wire transfer
2) freight on the shipment is going to be at least $500, likely double that
3) you have to have a federal import/export liscense for live reptiles to bring in the shipment. If you do not have one, you must send in your application, pay for the fee to do so and wait a couple months to hear back on if you will get one or not.
4) you have to either drive to Chicago O'hare to pick the shipment (you cannot get a port exemption to have shipments come to Detroit unless you had them arranged prior to 9/11) up or you can pay a broker about $350 to clear it for you and ship it to Detroit metro for you to pick up (another $75-100) on top of the fees you have to pay customs and F&W which is another $50-100.
after all this do you still want to import a shipment when you can buy the animals so cheaply here in the US already?
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