RoseRed
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The week before Thanksgiving, I went on KingSnake Classifieds to purchase a corn snake. I came upon the ad advertising Hypo Bloodred Lavenders (aka Hypo Plasmas). The babies were priced at $80 each. When I contacted the seller he offered to sell me a pair for $160 shipped. I agreed because two would make my breeding plans go smoother/faster.
It took 3 weeks to have them delivered. This was because because of college, I only had Thursday's to be at my house when they were delivered. This was not the problem though, because of my tight schedule and it being winter I can understand where it would take some time to have them shipped. But I was always having to nag him to get a response.
The true problem came with shipping. They were supposed to be shipped on Tuesday and arrive at my apartment on Wednesday. On Tuesday night he promised me he would send me the tracking number when he got home. I was busy with studying for finals, so I did not check until the next morning (Wed). I found out he had not emailed me the tracking number. They could have been in Egypt for all I knew. I emailed him that morning and gave me the tracking number. The seller claimed that FedEx had a delay so it would be two days before they were delivered. He offered to give me a partial refund on shipping if that was the case.
When they arrived today, I was appalled by the way they had been shipped. There was no insulation, and the "heat packs" were merely hand warmers. Even if there had been no delay, the hand warmers would have stopped being warm before they got to my house. I should note that I live in the Chicago area and it is cold here (seller knew this). Needless to say the two corn snakes were freezing cold. The male was so unresponsive at first, I thought he was dead. The female had obviously faired better and was more responsive but she too was freezing cold.
So I let them warm up where they had proper heat. I did not have time to properly check them out, and was more worried about their health than anything else. Then someone on Corn Snakes Forums pointed out that they were not Hypo Plasma's which I had ordered. Both had checkers on their bellies. I went to check for myself and sure enough both had checkers and their head patterns were of a non-diffused. The seller advertised them as "Hypo Bloodred Lavenders" (which would be a hypo plasma). I received the wrong snakes.
Here is a video I made of the unboxing, the ONLY editing is I cut out the section where I put my phone down.
Here is a video of me going through how he shipped them
Here is a link to my original thread on Corn Snakes Forums
http://www.cornsnakes.com/forums/showthread.php?t=127318
I do not know what to do. As noted by somebody else by the way he packed them, it does not look like he cared for them and returning them may be sending them to their death. But at the same time, if I keep them it falls to me to re-home them, because without the diffused/bloodred gene they are not what I want nor need for my breeding plans. What is the best course of action?
It took 3 weeks to have them delivered. This was because because of college, I only had Thursday's to be at my house when they were delivered. This was not the problem though, because of my tight schedule and it being winter I can understand where it would take some time to have them shipped. But I was always having to nag him to get a response.
The true problem came with shipping. They were supposed to be shipped on Tuesday and arrive at my apartment on Wednesday. On Tuesday night he promised me he would send me the tracking number when he got home. I was busy with studying for finals, so I did not check until the next morning (Wed). I found out he had not emailed me the tracking number. They could have been in Egypt for all I knew. I emailed him that morning and gave me the tracking number. The seller claimed that FedEx had a delay so it would be two days before they were delivered. He offered to give me a partial refund on shipping if that was the case.
When they arrived today, I was appalled by the way they had been shipped. There was no insulation, and the "heat packs" were merely hand warmers. Even if there had been no delay, the hand warmers would have stopped being warm before they got to my house. I should note that I live in the Chicago area and it is cold here (seller knew this). Needless to say the two corn snakes were freezing cold. The male was so unresponsive at first, I thought he was dead. The female had obviously faired better and was more responsive but she too was freezing cold.
So I let them warm up where they had proper heat. I did not have time to properly check them out, and was more worried about their health than anything else. Then someone on Corn Snakes Forums pointed out that they were not Hypo Plasma's which I had ordered. Both had checkers on their bellies. I went to check for myself and sure enough both had checkers and their head patterns were of a non-diffused. The seller advertised them as "Hypo Bloodred Lavenders" (which would be a hypo plasma). I received the wrong snakes.
Here is a video I made of the unboxing, the ONLY editing is I cut out the section where I put my phone down.
Here is a video of me going through how he shipped them
Here is a link to my original thread on Corn Snakes Forums
http://www.cornsnakes.com/forums/showthread.php?t=127318
I do not know what to do. As noted by somebody else by the way he packed them, it does not look like he cared for them and returning them may be sending them to their death. But at the same time, if I keep them it falls to me to re-home them, because without the diffused/bloodred gene they are not what I want nor need for my breeding plans. What is the best course of action?
