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Originally Posted by mcgrath5860
Why is what he is trying to do any different than pet stores or Walmart? I am sure you may have sold some of you snakes to pet stores or outlet not knowing the intended owners.
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I really see no similarity between what he is doing and how a pet store does business.
If you went to a pet store and asked for a specific animal, then they in turn took your money and sent you to a completely different store not owned by them to pick it up, that would be a similar situation. Especially when you saw that that store had them priced 10% less than the store you "bought" them from.
He's trying to play middleman without ever having to lay eyes on the product. You place an order with him, and pay him, he in turn calls someone else who has the animal and has them ship it to you.
How can you feel comfortable about the quality of an animal you're buying when the person who's selling it to you hasn't seen it nor ever will see it.
If he were buying clutches of these animals himself, then reselling them, that's what a pet store does and that is just capitalization, and there would be no issue. If that was what he is doing, there would also be no issue with these people who are still waiting on what they have purchased, because he would have had it in his possession at the time of the sale.
All he is doing is basically charging the buyer a fee to set up the shipping of the animal to them.
You may feel my comments were to strongly worded, but I stand by them, this type of "business" practice is parasitic in nature and that's basically the role he is taking in the business.
As far as my selling animals to pet stores without knowing the intended owners, yes I have done that, but I don't see any relevance in that to this situation. I sold animals I had personally to a pet store. They were then the physical owners of those animals and in turn sold them directly to their customers. My not knowing who the eventual owner was has nothing to do with it since I am not selling that person a snake. The pet store was MY customer, not the eventual owner.