snowgyre
Well-known member
No fault lies with the seller here. 100% of the blame and all associated issues lie on the buyer. The correspondences make this clear.
In most cases, receiving a larger animal is actually a bonus, because larger animals tend to cost more. If you did not have adequate housing for your bearded dragons, this is on you, not the seller. Created a new temporary bearded dragon from a large plastic tub and heat lamp would probably cost all of $50 at the most. If you can't afford this, you shouldn't have any bearded dragons. At the very least, you should've had a quarantine tub.
Adam is right, using total length as the sole metric of size on a lizard does not work. By your own metric, if the last 1.5" of the tail was chopped off, then the lizard would've fit your obscure definition of "juvenile."
To summarize:
- You purchased an animal. The seller gave you an animal that was within the expected size RANGE for that age class, regardless of your opinion.
- You did not quarantine the animal.
- You placed the animal with other animals so "they could meet."
- The new animal killed your other animal.
- You blame the seller.
- You (falsely) threaten you have an attorney to try to bully a refund from the seller.
- People try to explain why a lack of quarantine and cohabitating bearded dragons is a problem. You respond with insulting, ad hominem attacks.
Justin, ignorance is curable. We tried to give you the benefit of a doubt, but your lack of maturity and lack of ownership with a problem you created is not shedding a positive light on your character.
In most cases, receiving a larger animal is actually a bonus, because larger animals tend to cost more. If you did not have adequate housing for your bearded dragons, this is on you, not the seller. Created a new temporary bearded dragon from a large plastic tub and heat lamp would probably cost all of $50 at the most. If you can't afford this, you shouldn't have any bearded dragons. At the very least, you should've had a quarantine tub.
Adam is right, using total length as the sole metric of size on a lizard does not work. By your own metric, if the last 1.5" of the tail was chopped off, then the lizard would've fit your obscure definition of "juvenile."
To summarize:
- You purchased an animal. The seller gave you an animal that was within the expected size RANGE for that age class, regardless of your opinion.
- You did not quarantine the animal.
- You placed the animal with other animals so "they could meet."
- The new animal killed your other animal.
- You blame the seller.
- You (falsely) threaten you have an attorney to try to bully a refund from the seller.
- People try to explain why a lack of quarantine and cohabitating bearded dragons is a problem. You respond with insulting, ad hominem attacks.
Justin, ignorance is curable. We tried to give you the benefit of a doubt, but your lack of maturity and lack of ownership with a problem you created is not shedding a positive light on your character.
