I have an ad in the classifieds looking for adult female balls. I got a response last week from a guy that had a huge female. We settled on a price and worked out the shipping details. We agreed that I would not pay for the snake before he shipped. He asked if I would at least pay for shipping. I thought that was a fair enough deal. So he shipped yesterday into today. The snake arrived this morning. I immediately opened the box to check out this huge female. As soon as I opened the box I knew something wasn't right. The box was a little small for the snake but that's not a really big deal. The problem was that the shipper put 5 heat packs in with the snake!! So obviously she was dead. I opened the bag she was in and pulled her out. She had burns up and down her belly. The first thing I did was take about 6 pictures of the dead snake to cover myself. Then I took a digital thermometer and put that inside of the box that the snake arrived in. The temp was over 124 degrees!! I took several pictures of the box and the temp as documentation. After taking pictures and such I sent an email to the shipper telling him of the bad news.

This is where I would like all of your opinions. The guy selling the snake is requesting that I pay for half of the total cost of the snake. He says because he never guaranteed live arrival that I am responsible for the cost of the snake. But he would give me a break and only charge me half of the total.

First off I feel horrible for that the snake had to die that way! My opinion is that it's not my responsibility to pay him for his very sad mistake. 5 heat packs on a day where it is almost 70 degress outside is way to much. 5 heat packs on a cold day is way to much.

All of your opinions are greatly appreciated.



Thanks in advance,

Taylor James

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• What would you do?? Please Read - TaylorJames, Tue Mar 8 17:50:45 2005
• RE: What would you do?? Please Read - jmartin104, Tue Mar 8 18:00:48 2005
• RE: What would you do?? Please Read - toshamc, Tue Mar 8 18:13:15 2005
• RE: What would you do?? Please Read - TaylorJames, Tue Mar 8 18:25:37 2005
• RE: What would you do?? Please Read - CJBianco, Tue Mar 8 18:13:51 2005
• RE: What would you do?? Please Read - kryolla, Tue Mar 8 18:30:53 2005
• That's the right thing to do. np - jmartin104, Tue Mar 8 19:05:13 2005
• RE: What would you do?? Please Read - piedman, Tue Mar 8 19:19:41 2005
• RE: What would you do?? Please Read - TaylorJames, Tue Mar 8 20:15:52 2005
• give him nothing.......request the money from the shipping back as well n/p - Corey Woods, Tue Mar 8 20:50:32 2005
• Some people just are not that bright - tns4life, Tue Mar 8 22:24:21 2005
• That is absolutely unprofessional...more... - kathylove, Wed Mar 9 00:55:11 2005
• What really should have tipped you off... - jeff favelle, Wed Mar 9 06:44:14 2005
• RE: What really should have tipped you off... - nita, Sat Mar 12 18:10:55 2005
• RE: What would you do?? Please Read - ginevive, Wed Mar 9 12:08:51 2005
• RE: you owe this person nothing, in fact..... - willstill, Wed Mar 9 13:10:12 2005
• RE: What would you do?? -not a penny- - Neumann, Wed Mar 9 13:16:05 2005
• RE: What would you do?? Please Read - CrestedGecko.com, Wed Mar 9 17:17:26 2005
• RE: What would you do?? Please Read - TaylorJames, Thu Mar 10 14:12:32 2005
• Late ...but still my Opinion...LOL - snakebstr, Sat Mar 12 04:15:51 2005