Prices to high you can get the same in the uk

[cornmorphs]

Originally Posted by Faith

Ohhh do i get to sit in the naughty girls corner

yes, and more so coz u keep choosing the wrong days for ur bbqs lol

[HABU]

man! i could send a s**t load if the laws there weren't so strick......somebody is making some money there and it's not the exporters or importers...it's the stupid laws you all must want... dumb stuff.... for instance what does the vet REALLY do?.. how much is he getting paid?....

[cornmorphs]

thats true, i guess he only needs to do anything if the animals are ill.

[HABU]

Originally Posted by cornmorphs

thats true, i guess he only needs to do anything if the animals are ill.

and then what? it's a fiasco... a spot check...free money... but good money. will they treat a sick animal? it's a gimmic.. vets are laughing all the way to the bank...... it's a guarded secret... a good gig if you can get it... you or i can do the same job.

[cornmorphs]

i guess thats it though,m rules are rules.. not alot that can be done about it.

[HABU]

Originally Posted by cornmorphs

i guess thats it though,m rules are rules..not alot that can be done about it.

scream,!!! write them fellows... as fredrice douglass once said, when asked about injustice...he said..."
agitate, agitate...

[essexchondro]

man! i could send a s**t load if the laws there weren't so strick......somebody is making some money there and it's not the exporters or importers...it's the stupid laws you all must want... dumb stuff.... for instance what does the vet REALLY do?.. how much is he getting paid?....

Its HMRC (Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs) that makes the real killing without actually doing anything. They play no active part in the shipment what so ever and still get to take 17.5% of the value of the snake as VAT (Value Added Tax). So, a UK buyer see a snake on a US website advertised for $1500 but don't realise that straight away they have to effectively add another $262.50 to that price to get the basic cost to them of the snake...on top of that they then need to add all the other associated costs like agents fees and vets fees etc etc.

Stuart

[PSGeckos]

Ok my two pence worth...

We've imported geckos, but they are for our collection. When we first started to get into leopad geckos, from what i recall there was no such thing as UK distributors, if you wanted geckos from the US you either had to spend a stupid minimum amount or buy via the breeders website and collect from Europe (which what we've done).

How i see it is whilst i think its a great idea to bring in fresh breeding lines and the US are much more advanced than us, i think importing on huge numbers and selling at prices lower than the UK market will cause more price crashes, how can a UK breeder compete with prices say for Aptors and Raptors for under £100!

I'm surprised that no one has bought up the subject of bring in new diseases?

Its all swings and roundabouts.

[Faith]

Originally Posted by cornmorphs

yes, and more so coz u keep choosing the wrong days for ur bbqs lol

***Sits in the naughty girls corner***

Ill upload some pictures of what importing looks like in our living room at 1 am this morning, for anyone thats been to hamm and come back at stupid o'clock and had to unpack a load of reptiles and rehouse them as well as water them then you know how we felt at silly o'clock this morning we didnt get to be till 3 am
I've had my say on this topic but need to reply to psgeckos about bringing things in, people buy from other collections and from hamm its no different from that

[jesuslovestheladies]

lol.. funny how ppl try to sway the topic off topic.

NW reptiles simply is saying dont import leos that you can get cheaper in uk, its all fine to do it when a certain super dally leo costs 500£ in the uk and only 200$ in the usa...

anyway faith/diablo, with the power of the internet i order you to get off your extremely high but utterly imaginary horses and be quiet.