Buying from the big boys does not mean they will(after 3 years) just give you your money back. I would think a lot of these big breeders have been cheated in the past.



So how does one get his money back? So if i sent you say $7,000 for a pair of Hets(100%) and then 3 years later i say i got nothing(the morph), as a big breeder, you would take my word and just send me $7,000 back(of coarse after i send the snake back)? How would the breeder even know if that was his snakes in the 1st place. The buyer could keep the Hets(with baby morphs) and send 2 thee year old Pythons back.



Seems too easy to be cheated. Yet it also seems to easy to get away with it if they were not Hets. It seems to be a double edged blade here. Who wins and who looses.



Then have too look at it from the buyers stand point. The buyer is a no one, he might be trying to get into the Ball business, but if he goes public with this breeder, will everyone stay away from this new guy. So maybe the buyer says nothing.



I mean if i bought a pair of Hets and they did not prove out and i got them from a big breeder and the breeder said he was not going to give me my money back, i don't know what i would do. Proving something like this would be tough and spreading a bad word can get the buyer in hot water.



I think its food for thought. Proof of anything 3 years old is tough. So does the buyer suck it up? Does the big breeder get away with it? If he does get away with it, how many more times did her get away with it?



Or, is it all based on trust? Reputation is not always what it seems when you get into big business.



I would love to hear from a big breeder on this? How is the little guy protected when he buys a Het or pair of Hets that take 3 or 4 years to prove(or not prove) out?



Thanks... JAZ

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