post of the day????

[BLACK-FOX_85]

Originally Posted by bothrops

Just a suggestion (feel free to ignore it or to ask me to delete this post (which I will do if you like)...


...if you post the pics and the approx price you are after then you will instantly stop 'pic hunters' and 'time wasters'.....many people may be interested (if they believe that these things go for £100 or so, ask for pics and then find out the real cost and baulk...also I'm really really curious to see the pics, especially as you bigged them up so much in the first post (I was really tempted to pretend interest in order to see pics...natural curiosity and a love of all things herpy (except herpes!)..pretty much par for the course on a forum such as this..but I didn't enquire as I couldn't buy the animals..many others would though..and by the sounds of it, did, despite having no intention of actually buying).

Surely you are asking for pic hunters and time wasters to enquire by not posting the pics and prices.......?


...post pics and all the potential time wasters and pic hunters will be weeded out in one shot?

..unless you can explain the advantage of not posting pics or price on a classified ad?

makes sense to me?

[malky201]

Kiss ass

[BLACK-FOX_85]

hey.......errm.........must think of witty comeback...........ummmm.........failed.

[malky201]

Haha! Does make sense though, i hate ads that have no pic or price

[DiegotheDestroyer]

I hate when the ad has no price, so you ask and you get "yeah, just make me an offer"


NO JUST NAME A GODDAMN PRICE!!!

[BLACK-FOX_85]

indeed......"open to sensible offers" well you clearly have a figure in mind. take it, add ?% (so wen ppl barter you down its the original figure) and write offers in the region of.......considered?

also one thing that bothers me a little- when people only put latin names? anyone else hate this? im sorry.....i live in 2010....i use english, at least put a translation for those who dont know the latin name to every reptile,invert, and amphib in the land. painiess-in-the arsius? thats latin!!!

[aliconda]

Originally Posted by BLACK-FOX_85

indeed......"open to sensible offers" well you clearly have a figure in mind. take it, add ?% (so wen ppl barter you down its the original figure) and write offers in the region of.......considered?

also one thing that bothers me a little- when people only put latin names? anyone else hate this? im sorry.....i live in 2010....i use english, at least put a translation for those who dont know the latin name to every reptile,invert, and amphib in the land. painiess-in-the arsius? thats latin!!!

i totally agree with this part - don't get me wrong, I am trying to learn them all, but some things are just so much easier with a 'common' name attached! I found a reptile shop earlier with names of things and prices, but no pictures - I got so annoyed that I had to keep googling pictures of what they were selling, I gave up and didn't buy anything. If you want to sell something, try showing us what it is!!

[DiegotheDestroyer]

Originally Posted by BLACK-FOX_85

indeed......"open to sensible offers" well you clearly have a figure in mind. take it, add ?% (so wen ppl barter you down its the original figure) and write offers in the region of.......considered?

also one thing that bothers me a little- when people only put latin names? anyone else hate this? im sorry.....i live in 2010....i use english, at least put a translation for those who dont know the latin name to every reptile,invert, and amphib in the land. painiess-in-the arsius? thats latin!!!

Its not Latin, its scientific names. They're useful because you get things like "green lizard" which could be about a million different species, scientific names tell you exactly which one it is.

A good example is Red Tailed Boas, which alot of people use to describe both BCI and BCC. But you don't wanna be paying £200+ for a BCI do you?

[BLACK-FOX_85]

Originally Posted by DiegotheDestroyer

Its not Latin, its scientific names. They're useful because you get things like "green lizard" which could be about a million different species, scientific names tell you exactly which one it is.

A good example is Red Tailed Boas, which alot of people use to describe both BCI and BCC. But you don't wanna be paying £200+ for a BCI do you?

The formal system of naming species is called binomial nomenclature (especially in botany,[1] but also used by zoologists[2]), binominal nomenclature (since 1953,[3] the technically correct form in zoology[4]), or binary nomenclature. The essence of it is that each species name is in (modern scientific) Latin and has two parts, so that it is popularly known as the Latin name of the species.

[DiegotheDestroyer]

Originally Posted by BLACK-FOX_85

The formal system of naming species is called binomial nomenclature (especially in botany,[1] but also used by zoologists[2]), binominal nomenclature (since 1953,[3] the technically correct form in zoology[4]), or binary nomenclature. The essence of it is that each species name is in (modern scientific) Latin and has two parts, so that it is popularly known as the Latin name of the species.

Its not in Latin though...