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I had decided that since i go through so many crickets to order then online (29.99 for 2,000. No shipping cost) Since that is what I pay for 1,000 at my local pet store I figured what a deal.. OM MY GOD what a disaster. First off DHL couldnt find my house. They left my crickets on some one elses porch. SO the lady was kind enough to reship them the following monday by UPS. UPS left them on my porch. Really no biggy weather was fine, but my boyftriend moved them inside to the kitchen no paying attention to the squished box. I come home to about 300 crickets on my porcha nd another 100 in my kitchen. What heppened to the other 1500 i have no idea. Ok so the lady again ships me more which onec again DHL cant find my house. I call DHL to find out who is getting my crickets ( now 4,000 total) and better yet why are they keeping them. They apologize and set out to find my crickets. I come home to TWO boxes on my porch they found both boxes of crickets( first box half dead) second box in good shape. I want to know why some one kept a box of crickets for 12 days Ok so now i have about 3000 crickets i email th elady to tell her they have been found but she has already sent out another replacement by UPS over night. Today I got more crickets.. now about a total of 5000. Not related to frogs but I thought I would share my funny story on how it was SO MUCH easier to order online.

I had a similar experience, only involving crickets, mealworms and D. hydei fruit flies from the same vendor. In the first shipment, everything arrived dead. (How this came about, I don't know, since they arrived in a timely manner.) I notified the supplier and they dutifully shipped out a replacement for all, which arrived in good condition. Then due to some confussion in their own shipping department, they shipped another, and bit later, yet another! So I ended up with about 6,000 crickets, a bucket full of mealworms, and 3 starter vials of flies. And like your experience, one of the shipping boxes arrived looking as if it had been mauled by a grizzly bear, so both the delivery truck and my kitchen were laced with escapees of the hopping and wormy variety.

This is a sparsely populated area, so everyone knows everyone else, including the delivery service drivers. Dooley, the UPS driver, called me one night and told me he'd recovered a few dozen worms from his truck and wondered what to do with them. I told him to go fishing--they make great trout bait. He is also the local "newsman," and exchanges gossip along his route, so the day after that, one of the ranchers came by and said he'd heard I had a surplussage of "trout bait"--I was able to provide him with an ample supply. A few days later, he returned with a present of six lovely, fresh, fat brown trout.

I can't complain that I didn't get my money's worth.
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Patty
Pahsimeroi, Idaho

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