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A question for the experienced

jaymiller242 Jun 05, 2010 11:16 AM

I understand over the next year or two when I start selling babies I will of course have to make my own tracks with a good product,great customer service and of course being as straight up with people as a person could be. Here is my question. I saw someone ask about buying breeder sized females and was a bit taken aback by some of the answers they got. I have not had a bad experience(knock on wood) with anyone I have bought snakes from on here. Everyone is great but I know there must be some unscrupulous individuals from time to time because I read a lot of, be careful when buying breeder sized females that people want to sell because there must be something wrong with them. Now I have bought many breeder females from some of you guys right here and a lot of Morphs too as you can see from what I have in my collection I will be selling some Normal breeder females over the next year or two as my Morph females grow because I wont be needing 20 or 30 some of them that are Normal anymore. I know customer service gets you a great reputation and of course really good word of mouth business also but do you find a lot of skeptical buyers out there? The only place I ever had a problem was buying from a local pet store when I first started out and didnt know anything about sexing snakes. The guy sold me a couple of Normals and a Pastel as females that turned out to be males. He is no longer in business thank goodness. So after all of that do you guys find it a problem selling larger females? Thanks, Jay
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JEM from sunny AZ.

3.25 Normals
3.10 Pastels
1.0 Super Pastels(Thanks Dan Wolf for the best looking Super male I have ever seen)
2.7 Normal Spiders
1.1 Spiders 100% het Ghost(thanks Mark Petros)
0.2 Spiders 66% het Ghost(Thanks Steve Beamer)
1.3 Orange/Butterscotch Ghosts(BallPython777 Mark Petros)
0.6 100% het Orange Ghosts
0.3 66% het Orange Ghosts(should prove this year)
0.1 Pastel Ghost
1.0 Citrus Ghost(courtesy of Josh Hutto)
0.1 Super Pastel 100% het Ghost
2.3 Albinos
1.1 Caramel Albinos
0.1 100% het Caramel Albino
0.4 100% het for Albino
0.5 66% het for Albino(should prove this year)
0.7 Yellow Bellies
1.0 Pastel Yellow Belly
1.2 Ivories
1.2 100% het for Clowns(Mark Petros)
1.6 Cinnamons(Thanks Stan Ruppel)
1.0 Pied
1.4 100% het for Pied(Josh Hutto and Paul the Pied Peddler)
0.5 66% het for Pied(should prove out next year with my visual male Pied)
1.5 Mojaves
0.1 Pastave het Ghost
1.1 Beautiful Black Pastels(thanks Gulf Coast Reptiles)
1.2 BumbleBees(thanks for the AWESOME Bees Marc Bailey)
1.1 Pewters(Myself and Scott Priester of Brookside Reptiles)
0.1 Chocolates(Thanks Brandon of Priceless Pythons)
1.3 Lessers(Josh Hutto)
3.2 Fire's(Thanks Brandon of Priceless Pythons)
1.2 High White Calico's(Thanks Brent from BRB)
1.1 SpotNoses(Thanks Brandon of Priceless Pythons)
1.1 Enchi's (Me and Josh Hutto, Thanks again Josh)
1.0 Pinstripe
0.1 Pinstripe 100% het for Ghost
0.1 Lemon Blast
1.0 Vanilla Ghost(Thanks again GCR for all the great snakes)
0.1 Super Vanilla Ghost(Awesome Chris and Shelia from GCR)
0.1 Vanilla Yellow Belly
0.1 Vanilla(Another one from Josh Hutto,I must have all your snakes now...lol.) Thanks my friend, Jay
1.1 Stillwater Hypo Bull snakes(Brad Chambers)
0.0.1 Great looking Brown and Tan Desert Bull Snake)
0.0.1 Vietnamese Blue Beauty
1.1 Argentinian Black and White Tegus
1.0 Gotti Pitbull
2.0 Beautiful Bengals
14 Tarantulas
Last but most Important 2.2 Children

Replies (5)

JYohe Jun 05, 2010 01:09 PM

a few years ago they would pay P0 for any proven large female...normal...

now they pay $20 IF they take them at all.....

I bet I could get $40 from the Viet Namese guys at work for them....

mmmmmmmmmmmmmstir fry........

truth......

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JYohe Jun 05, 2010 01:10 PM

LOL

proof read...what the heck...

was to say $500 before ($20 now)....

.......no idea.....
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jaymiller242 Jun 05, 2010 01:45 PM

Oh thats cold.. I've already had an offer from the Chinese I used to eat at.. No more though, not after she told me a restaurant like theirs would eat snakes where she came from..lol. Jay
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JEM from sunny AZ.

3.25 Normals
3.10 Pastels
1.0 Super Pastels(Thanks Dan Wolf for the best looking Super male I have ever seen)
2.7 Normal Spiders
1.1 Spiders 100% het Ghost(thanks Mark Petros)
0.2 Spiders 66% het Ghost(Thanks Steve Beamer)
1.3 Orange/Butterscotch Ghosts(BallPython777 Mark Petros)
0.6 100% het Orange Ghosts
0.3 66% het Orange Ghosts(should prove this year)
0.1 Pastel Ghost
1.0 Citrus Ghost(courtesy of Josh Hutto)
0.1 Super Pastel 100% het Ghost
2.3 Albinos
1.1 Caramel Albinos
0.1 100% het Caramel Albino
0.4 100% het for Albino
0.5 66% het for Albino(should prove this year)
0.7 Yellow Bellies
1.0 Pastel Yellow Belly
1.2 Ivories
1.2 100% het for Clowns(Mark Petros)
1.6 Cinnamons(Thanks Stan Ruppel)
1.0 Pied
1.4 100% het for Pied(Josh Hutto and Paul the Pied Peddler)
0.5 66% het for Pied(should prove out next year with my visual male Pied)
1.5 Mojaves
0.1 Pastave het Ghost
1.1 Beautiful Black Pastels(thanks Gulf Coast Reptiles)
1.2 BumbleBees(thanks for the AWESOME Bees Marc Bailey)
1.1 Pewters(Myself and Scott Priester of Brookside Reptiles)
0.1 Chocolates(Thanks Brandon of Priceless Pythons)
1.3 Lessers(Josh Hutto)
3.2 Fire's(Thanks Brandon of Priceless Pythons)
1.2 High White Calico's(Thanks Brent from BRB)
1.1 SpotNoses(Thanks Brandon of Priceless Pythons)
1.1 Enchi's (Me and Josh Hutto, Thanks again Josh)
1.0 Pinstripe
0.1 Pinstripe 100% het for Ghost
0.1 Lemon Blast
1.0 Vanilla Ghost(Thanks again GCR for all the great snakes)
0.1 Super Vanilla Ghost(Awesome Chris and Shelia from GCR)
0.1 Vanilla Yellow Belly
0.1 Vanilla(Another one from Josh Hutto,I must have all your snakes now...lol.) Thanks my friend, Jay
1.1 Stillwater Hypo Bull snakes(Brad Chambers)
0.0.1 Great looking Brown and Tan Desert Bull Snake)
0.0.1 Vietnamese Blue Beauty
1.1 Argentinian Black and White Tegus
1.0 Gotti Pitbull
2.0 Beautiful Bengals
14 Tarantulas
Last but most Important 2.2 Children

JYohe Jun 06, 2010 11:35 AM

I have not eaten snake yet....

and YOU have not eaten shake n bake guinea pig yet....

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joshhutto Jun 05, 2010 05:10 PM

I've not had many problems at all selling breeder sized females, mophs or normals *wink wink*. Honestly Jay, the only way to consistantly sell any animals is to be upfront with your customers and represent your animals correctly and always be available for them before, during and after the sale. Even though I've cut way back on my collection, I still put alot of time with my animals and this will allow me to provide even more tip notch animals and after all, that's what th customers want right? Give me a call some time, just got back from the canoe trip/fossil hunting and man it's hot down here in SW Fla. I'm not used to it anymore, lol.
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Josh & Krysty Hutto

Various Ball Pythons, boas, dogs, cats, fish, a couple sulcatas and a few other odds and ends.

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