...I get all kinds of replies to my ads. Twice this year I have had people exchange emails asking all the expected questions and then saying that a check is in the mail and no check or further emails arrived. Do these people think I am really going to ship them a snake without actually seeing and cashing the check? I also get lots of the scams that want me to take a large foreign check and give them cash for the difference when their agent comes to get the snakes. I take time and carefully write my ads so that most of the information is covered and I still get loads of emails asking questions that are answered in the ad. Keeping and breeding snakes is fun. Selling them can be interesting?

Jeff



>>I know we all get the "send me a check if you are really dumb" replies to the ads but does anyone else get the replies where a namless emailer states that they want to buy most of your stock? I seem to get this every other ad, where some guy (or gal I really don't know) sends an email saying "I would like all the snakes listed" the spelling in the email is normally off and the request just strikes you as untrue, no questions, no requests just "I want them all"? Is some putz out there thinking that I will pull my entire stock off the market based on a blind email? I don't see the purpose of this reply unless they think I would do that and therefore their animals would sell better?

>>Let me know if any of you guys get this too.

>>Thanks

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>>Jim Hopkins "Hoppy"

>>Hopkins Holesale Herps

>>Hopfam1@aol.com

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