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dnreptiles Jul 01, 2006 11:21 PM

I see people post animals every day who claim they are something but aren’t. This seems to happen a lot with granites. I see your every day normal balls with ZERO flecking being sold as “look at this beautiful granite”.

My question is does any one ever email the sellers and ask them “why are you calling that a “insert NEW or WHATEVER morph here”?

I have seen a few nice animals but they are far from what they are advertised as. I don’t want to insult sellers by saying hey I’m interested in your ad but ill offer you hundreds less because what your asking for is just STUPID.

Opinions? Feedback?
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Replies (4)

EmberBall Jul 01, 2006 11:42 PM

About every 10 ads have iff at best snakes for sale. I just take a mental note of the seller, and do not even open their ads anymore.

bstro Jul 01, 2006 11:50 PM

plus the past couple years every ball is het for something. seems like B.S. to me. anyon else notice this?
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BULLSANKES
1.0 white sided
1.0 hypo
0.1 stillwater hypo
0.1 stillwater. Ok hypo 25% red
1.0 axanthic
1.0 red
0.1 real dark normal

rfarris Jul 02, 2006 02:42 AM

I used to make mental notes on breeders that try and sell the next normal as the next big morph. These breeders are now written down on my "do not do business with" list!
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Ryan Farris

PHLdyPayne Jul 02, 2006 01:26 PM

If you find any classified ad as being fraudulent, I suggest reading the classified account TOS, specifically the section here: market.kingsnake.com/tos.php#9

If you find any classified ad as misleading or violates the classified TOS, report the ad using the 'report abuse' link found above any forum/classified post, at the end of the line starting with 'Posted by...'

Just posting a complain of something you saw in the classifieds you didn't agree with or found suspicious here without doing any of the suggestions above, doesn't solve the problem.
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PHLdyPayne

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