I have bought far more snakes without seeing them than i have with pictures.

I think this comes down to what level you're on and what sort of animals we're talking about.

Think on, 95% of wholesale sales are done without pictures.
Also, if you order something random like a locality retic from an exporter then the chances are you wont see it until it's landed in the UK.

I allways had a problem distinguishing between the trade mentality and the private mentality. For me, as a rule, one normal corn was the same as another. It's only when you get to things that are different every time (ie chameleons or even common boas for that matter) that pictures actually start to matter.

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common boas different everytime? and corns not???

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Sorry, should have said "significant" differences every time.

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same thing common boas, what shade of greys important hey?

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We could be at this all night

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yup

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I have mostly bought on collection.
Though i have bought a lavender motley unseen, extremely dissapointing! to say the least; fairly nice looking but ...well..... dissapointing.
My only other dissapointing unseen buy was my Fire which died not long after delivery. The fire was one out of 8 in the unseen delivery, the other 7 are perfect.
All in all i've made 2 unseen purchases, one bad and one 0.125 bad. i cant moan ... its a risk.

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at end of day if u buy unseen without sounding 2 harsh thats up what u get.have been 2 look and buy things without pics first, but if i go somewere 2 buy it and its quite far wether i like it or not i would prob still buy otherwise would think it was a waste of time and money lol


daniel

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I have bought unseen , but only from people with good reputations.
I have also bought snakes that I "picked out"

Last year I bought 17 Hatchlings , I lost two.

One I picked out and one bought unseen.

If you trust the seller then go for it.

If you dont , then ?

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well the only problem with the big sellers from the US for example, they will have weak striped stripes and partial motley motleys, unless they cull them for aesthetics, i'd be dissapointed at purchasing a butter stripe for instance that had a poor stripe. Someones got to get them

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