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<blockquote data-quote="jetfire" data-source="post: 152" data-attributes="member: 2"><p>No matter where you procure your new baby from, please do yourself the favor of dealing with reputable people; I've seen shady vendors at shows who had a whole table full of deli cups with slings in them, with no identifying labels on the cups. I had a friend buy what she was told was a red-knee sling for really cheap, after a couple months growing and molting, she had herself a young rosehair. Thankfully, the majority of vendors these days actually seem to care more about customer service these days, so incidents like the aforementioned aren't as common anymore...I would still be wary about people intentionally mislabeling animals (not common at all, but I have seen it happen before-I sold a couple 1/2 grown Arizona striped devil scorpions to a vendor at a show, and he turns right around and labels them as African fat-tailed </p><p>Scorpions. it didn't matter that I bought them from a friend who only breed that species, the vendor said that since he had been "doing this for years", he was sure he was better at identifying scorpions than my friend was.I had to get neighboring vendors to bust him, so to speak.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jetfire, post: 152, member: 2"] No matter where you procure your new baby from, please do yourself the favor of dealing with reputable people; I've seen shady vendors at shows who had a whole table full of deli cups with slings in them, with no identifying labels on the cups. I had a friend buy what she was told was a red-knee sling for really cheap, after a couple months growing and molting, she had herself a young rosehair. Thankfully, the majority of vendors these days actually seem to care more about customer service these days, so incidents like the aforementioned aren't as common anymore...I would still be wary about people intentionally mislabeling animals (not common at all, but I have seen it happen before-I sold a couple 1/2 grown Arizona striped devil scorpions to a vendor at a show, and he turns right around and labels them as African fat-tailed Scorpions. it didn't matter that I bought them from a friend who only breed that species, the vendor said that since he had been "doing this for years", he was sure he was better at identifying scorpions than my friend was.I had to get neighboring vendors to bust him, so to speak. [/QUOTE]
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