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I purchased a female paradox dragon from him based on picture 1 attached. What I got was picture 2. I was told the animal was healthy and ready to breed. I paid apremium price for her. Do I have any recourse?
 

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Yikes she looks super dehydrated and skinny. Have you contacted the seller about this? If so please post emails, texts or what ever you used to contact the seller. Deffinetly false advertiving imo.
 
The image manipulation was enough to cause the dimples in the white paper towel to appear as though a purple-blue color.
 
First, have you contacted him? Second, how did you pay? I personally would not accept it. It may be the same dragon but it was definitely misrepresented!
 
I didn't do an in boxing video (she was delayed in TN and arrived at eight pm my time) but did text him a picture the day I got her to show her poor condition. Yes, she was dehydrated...I soaked her on arrival and she drank like crazy. Her fluids are fine. She's just extremely thin, not red at all...more golden. I told the seller I was interested in her due to her red coloring. I paid via PayPal. I have contacted Tony but he has not responded.
 
when i shipped the dragon there was nothing wrong i told her she was digging and didnt feed her for 2 days because i was shipping her out to her. the dragon ate and drank perfect here and had no problem and the picture i had posted was her fired up.
 
Might be a good idea to post the full communication stream to give a sense of details discussed and the timeline of the messages.
 
when i shipped the dragon there was nothing wrong i told her she was digging and didnt feed her for 2 days because i was shipping her out to her. the dragon ate and drank perfect here and had no problem and the picture i had posted was her fired up.

So fired up that she can change the color of the white paper towel?
 
based off the fired up picture and the one after arrival there is know way she got that skinny in just 3 days, i have had females dig for a week and not look like that.
 
Two days without food would not result in being able to see her spinal column all the way down her tail.
 
Here is the ad and the image from the ad.

I recommend not taking a photo of a screen when trying to present evidence of a color (or other appearance) difference. Not a good way to go about that at all.
 

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Here is a very slightly older ad that had what I am assuming to be the same animal. The coloration presented is quite different between the two ads.
 

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This is the photo I sent him the day she arrived. I've tried giving her time to color up and see the red...but I don't think she ever was red. Just yellow gold. I specifically told the guy I do reds.

He's telling me he'll give me half my money. I don't think it's right when the animal was misrepresented as to color and condition. I told Tony I would try to fatten her up, but I can't change her color. To be fair to him I had to give her time to settle in and adjust, rehydrate and eat before I could be sure the color was not right.
 

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