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- Jan 9, 2005
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I've got a question to everyone out there. I sold a tarantula to someone about 2 months ago. I sold the tarantula (P. irminia) for $35...that included the shipping charges [I thought that was a GREAT deal]. I sold the tarantula as UNSEXED! I never tried to pass the tarantula off as anything else but unsexed.
Well, two months later the person is contacting me saying that they want some of their money back. They told me that the tarantula molted into a male and that the legs are messed up after the molt. Needless to say I cannot be held accountable for the bad molt. I can say that I have NEVER had a tarantula in my care have a "Bad Molt" (i.e. death or deformed legs).
My question to everybody is when do you think the responsibility of a seller or dealer ends? Are we as sellers, dealers, or traders liable for bad molts? Are we liable to a person when we sell them an "unsexed" tarantula when the tarantula comes out a different sex from what they wanted?
What I plan on doing is to refund the $35 dollars for the tarantula. The stipulation is that they have to ship the tarantula back to me. I don't really feel that it is my responsibility to refund their money...To me it is kinda like getting a surrogate mother to have your baby and when the baby is born you decide that you want to return the child because the child wasn't the sex that you wanted and feel that you should have gotten what you paid for.
Well, two months later the person is contacting me saying that they want some of their money back. They told me that the tarantula molted into a male and that the legs are messed up after the molt. Needless to say I cannot be held accountable for the bad molt. I can say that I have NEVER had a tarantula in my care have a "Bad Molt" (i.e. death or deformed legs).
My question to everybody is when do you think the responsibility of a seller or dealer ends? Are we as sellers, dealers, or traders liable for bad molts? Are we liable to a person when we sell them an "unsexed" tarantula when the tarantula comes out a different sex from what they wanted?
What I plan on doing is to refund the $35 dollars for the tarantula. The stipulation is that they have to ship the tarantula back to me. I don't really feel that it is my responsibility to refund their money...To me it is kinda like getting a surrogate mother to have your baby and when the baby is born you decide that you want to return the child because the child wasn't the sex that you wanted and feel that you should have gotten what you paid for.