Well, the way it's always been in this business is -- what you see is what you get. Buyer beware. No returns.
It's a total crap shoot. Risky business. No guarantees. You take your chances. You take that leap of faith. Life's lessons aren't free. You pay tuition for a formal education, don't you?

There's a good reason for this. You never know what the guy you just sold the animal to is going to do with it once it's in his hands and out of your control. You could easily be taking back a Boid thats been exposed to IBD and compromise your entire collection with a returned snake. The least case scenario is -- taking back a snake and infesting your entire collection with mites. To be safe, you'd have to quarantine a return for at least 90 days. What if you took it back and it croaked? You loose. That's what.

Heck, I once had a guy take a Rainbow Boa I sold him at a show out to his car, after I specifically told him not to do so. About 15 minutes later he brought the snake back in and said "I think my snake needs a drink". That snake looked like a pretzel!! Not 20 minutes earlier he had that snake and it's sibling stretched out straight as an arrow on his forearm, trying to decide which one to pick. Now it was toast! Steam came off it when I spray misted it with water. I said, " Dude you've just killed your snake!" He said, "No. It will be OK." Well a few days later he's calling me up, wanting me to give him a new snake and telling me I sold him a defective boa with IBD. It had died.
For one thing, if my Rainbow Boas had IBD, wouldn't the replacement snake be just as ill and defective? That didn't make much sense, now did it.

That's just a very short explaination on "WHY" we don't return snakes. Just exactly the same as electric component parts. You never know what that idiot did to it to make it "unsatisfactory". It's just not as simple as putting it back on the shelf for the next guy to buy.

jsc
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