Selling babies?

[TLreptiles]

So I have 18 babies I need to sell and I tried craigslist and people keeping flagging it as spam... I dont know what to do. I am not sure how to ship and it seems hard.... Is there another website that lets you distribute locally?

 

[Jayson745]

Sense your other thread about them hatching has me thinking they aren't even 2 weeks old yet, you should probably grow them another couple of weeks. If you've done your homework and have them set up and feeding well, they should shed somewhere around a month after hatching. Then they will be in better shape for new homes.

craigslist is a pain. If they are just regular beardies, you can usually get away with asking a reasonable "rehoming fee", sense you cant expect a lot out of them anyway. $30 will usually get them moved pretty fast if you live in a city, and people will be less likely to flag you.

Or there are always pet stores, but you'll still want them to have had their first shed to make sure they are doing well and ready to deal with the likely less than perfect conditions they'll likely go through. Most pet stores aren't going to give you more than $20 a piece though, sense they are like a pawn shop and have to buy cheap and sell high to stay in business.

Feeding/housing regular(no morph) beardie babies to a proper size without losing money is really not doable if your not breeding their food on a decent scale, its probably going to lose you money. But selling them sooner isn't right. Most of them probably wont make it. Not to mention the people who will be bothering you for refunds because they didn't do things perfectly. They are just to fragile at 2 weeks old.

 

[TLreptiles]

Yeah I understand what you are saying I was just playing around with it to see if it would work. These guys are half normal half leatherbacks with high oranges and all 100% het hypo so they are worth more than $30 but people on craigslist are flagging me and it is just a pain.

 

[Jayson745]

In that case, you could try selling them wholesale to someone online. Then you'd only have to ship once and be done with it. I'd still wait for them to get bigger though. If they were regulars it makes shipping pretty much more than its worth which is why I didn't mention it.