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Tony D
at Tue Nov 24 11:24:58 2009 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Tony D ]
Its funny until you're the one on the roasting spit! Several years back I purchased a coastal plains milk from someone who's integrity I've never questioned. That snake was purchased with cursory locality info as part of a generic project and was said to be from VA Beach, VA. Down the line I sold the same snake along with the information I had to another collector. The new owner began to doubt its authenticity but never said a word about it to me directly. When I finally did find out there was dissatisfaction I tried to clarify the lineage of the animal for him. After 10 years however the guy I purchased the snake from could not recall the desired details. To me this does not impugn the guy I got it from nor does it impugn me for selling the snake with the info that I had. Fact is even without specific recollection I trust the original source over the speculations of the cadre of other self-professed experts who have actively used my "passing bad information" in order to build their sales of locality animals.
The thing is the animal was sold to me for $100 as part of a generic project and the local info provided was a simple plus, there was no reason to lie about the animal's origins. Additionally, I sold the animal (a proven adult female) again for $100. All around I considered the transactions to be trades amongst friends yet after years I still take heat over this. Had I offered the female and info for the going price there would surely have been some checking around first! Funny how someone can jump on a good price and then have second thoughts and think the seller is at fault. The thing is, way too often locality people, just like everyone else, hear what they want to hear and make judgment calls that they later wish they hadn't. Being a locality guy doesn't make you smarter, less susceptible to human foibles or morally superior. It only means that you like to breed by locality. Simply because one's knowledge of the populations and criteria of what is considered "a" locality and the burden of proof required constantly shifts doesn't give the right to bash others who have largely played by the rules. You can do it sure, but don't be surprised when those getting roasted rightly take offense and bystanders see this ridicules behavior as reprehensible.
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“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.” Emmerson
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RE: 277 backround search - Tony D, Tue Nov 24 11:24:58 2009