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I'm so upset...
I begged and waited for this snake. Finally sent my $175 to the business and this is what I got:

I contacted the seller and all I got was a " sorry no live arrival garuantee, get pissed at the shipper not us "... these a-holes have my money and all I have is a stiff dead snake...

The opinions I need are on the shipping conditions.
When the delievery person showed up with a 9" long box, 6" deep, and only 3" high my responce was " there's a 6 foot long beauty snake in that?!?! "
I opened the teeny box to find a snake bag (9" wide and 19" long) that held a severly cramped dead beauty snake. No styrofoam, no padding of any kind, no shredded newspaper or ANYTHING.
I've shipped TONS of snakes before and NEVER sent them like this!!! When confronted the seller said " don't blame this on the shipping conditions, they were perfect, I had air holes all in it ".....

does that sound right to you?!?! in my very pissed off opinion right now that sounds HORRIBLE! I thought it before I even noticed the dead snake.
Please respond, I need advice of others!!!

I have shipped quite a few snakes and I must say, If anyone ever recieves a snake from me shipped in those conditions....PLEASE come beat the crap out of me. I am so sorry for what happened to you, and I never deal with anyone that doesnt guarentee live delivery for that specific reason. I will say however they are lucky I didnt recieve it, I would have their name all over here to warn others. Mike

>>The seller has already posted a thread about this - and your side needs to be heard!!

can you point out the link? I was just there and didn't see anything. Other than something about Airborne Express that got moved...
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~Sasheena

Wish List:
0.1 adult Whitewater Rosy Boa
1.0 CB Spilotes Pullatus
1.0 Jungle Carpet Python

I took the liberty of posting your pics in the thread on the site that folks are referring you to.

Sounds extremely shady to have no "live guarantee" policy. For all you know they could've sent you a dead snake.

-Lemur 6

I am new here and this was the first post I read, first of all I am so sorry you had such a horrible experience. I feel so sorry for you. That poor snaked looked horrible. Anyway, please keep us posted on what happenes.

>>WOW, I finally found the post on the other site. I had my previous message removed b/c I had referred to a feature on the other site...I guess I do not understand the intensity of website rivalries. Anyway, it was kind of hard to find the post with the pics at first but I did a search under cobraman and the post came up. Charlotte...please let us know IF/WHEN you get refunded.

I can't find the post you mentioned.
Could you e-mail me the link?
thanks
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Jimmy (draybar)

i sent ya an email, let me know if you do not get it...i don't think i can post the link or address here since last time i posted a message containing a super small detail about the other site, my message was deleted.