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Worst shipping experiences.

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Posted by: kingofspades at Fri Jun 11 02:29:21 2010   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by kingofspades ]  
   

Off the bat, leave out names...I don't want this to get into name bashing or anything...
but what is your worst experience receiving or shipping a snake?

I have two.
One was the company that was doing the shipping...and one was blatant stupidity.

The first one was a female snake and her babies. Basically I bought 3 adult females off a dude, he sent me two and bred one to his spider. We were going to split the babies. Ended up with 4 normal babies, so he let me have them all. Maybe I was ripped off...whatever. He packaged the snakes fine, sent them out...and the company lost the package.
The snakes showed up 3 days later. They were cold, but fine.

The second one...I found normal female hatchlings for $20 shipped, so I bought one.
I got the snake...it was tossed in SOCK...and put in a small box stuffed with shredded newspaper. To top it off...it was sent FIRST CLASS...so it took 3 days to arrive. Needless to say...it arrived dead...
so I emailed her and asked what was up. She said her brother had handled the shipping that week. I asked for another snake or a refund and she told me I would have to ship the dead snake back to her as proof...so that she knew I wasn't ripping her off...
(for $20...)
I ended up just sucking up the loss, but was extra angry because the snake was the ultimate loser...
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"What is man without the beasts?
If all the beasts were gone,
men would die from great loneliness of spirit.
For what happens to the beasts,
soon happens to men.
All things are connected."

-Chief Seattle (Duwamish Tribe)


   

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