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Message: <blockquote data-quote="plessey" data-source="post: 242176" data-attributes="member: 373"><p>I guess if you are a fan of bureaucracy then this is something to get upset about but unless the spiders were mistreated, badly packed and half of them dead then personally I won't lose any sleep over it. It is a bitter pill for some to swallow but there are probably a lot more spiders/species that have come into this hobby without correct or any paper work than there are with. I don't condone the illegal practices going on in this hobby (smuggling, brown boxing etc) but there will be no moral outrage from myself about it either. Others will feel differently I'm sure and that is cool. Regardless, the smugglers will keep on smuggling, the buyers will keep on buying and every few years a dealer will get hit hard by the law. As long as there is a hobby, this wheel will keep turning.</p></blockquote><p></p>