Who to ship my boa with?

[Beasty]

I have the box and heat pack, etc. but I know you can't ship a snake through the Post Office so who do you guys suggest? I'm trading my 3'+ dumeril boa for a hatchling 75% Blue 25% red hybrid tegu! Can't wait!

 

[ashesc212]

I can't answer your question but I have a silly question...who is breeding all these 75% blue 25% red tegus?

 

[Beasty]

Apparently, Javier Perez from San Diego, California who goes by tigerfangs on faunaclassifieds.com
Father was a monster near 4' blue and mother was 50/50 red blue hybrid with a stubbed tail. (hence the 75/25 ratio) Not sure of how many in the clutch but figured that would successfully have outbred a little of the alleged inbreeding that was done with the supposed 6 blue siblings originally brought into the pet trade.
With investigating what I could find online this seems to be the source. I'll look into it further.
It looks like several people either didn't think it through or came upon adverse circumstances with all this crap economy we have going. He dropped the price extremely low(which was already low to start with) and finally unloaded all his babies. I found one and the folks are going to swap me for my boa.
NOW just to figure out who to ship with!
Any ideas?

 

[Red Earth Exotics]

i ship all my stuff through fed ex. i have never had a problem with them. in fact, they saved my butt once. against my better judgement i let a customer talk me into shipping on a friday for saturday delivery. to make a long story short, the fed ex website was messed up and it registered as 3 day shipping, not priority overnight. i found this out on saturday when the customer said it hadn't been delivered yet. so i called fed ex, they said it wouldn't be delivered until monday. after about 30 minutes of talking with them they found what warehouse it was in, sent out a driver there, found my package and delivered it that night. the snake was fine and i learned NEVER to ship for saturday delivery.

 

[Beasty]

Good to know. Do you have to be "certified" or some such?
Price range? Approximate anyway?
I know USPS is around $26-30 or so.

 

[Red Earth Exotics]

i am certified to ship reptiles with them. they say you have to be in order to ship, but i know a lot of people who ship anyway. most shipments of priority overnight cost between $45 and $55. that is with a 'guarantee' of it being at it's destination by 10 am the next day.

 

[Beasty]

OK, so the next question is how does one get certified?

 

[DaveDragon]

He's a start!

http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/forums/showthread.php?t=33533

 

[Red Earth Exotics]

He's a start!

http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/forums/showthread.php?t=33533

awesome dave, that's the exact thread i found a while back that i used to get certified with them.

 

[Beasty]

SWEET! Thanks!
So does it cost to send the test box? I don't see sending another snake off any time soon. Also, Robyn with Pro Exotics has started a new site said to launch this month: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://shipyourreptiles.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://shipyourreptiles.com</a><!-- m --> I just got the email today. Also if anyone is looking, he has a lone pair of red Ackies for sale and 5 clutches of eggs brewing at present! 'Bout time!!

 

[DaveDragon]

SWEET! Thanks!
So does it cost to send the test box? I don't see sending another snake off any time soon. Also, Robyn with Pro Exotics has started a new site said to launch this month: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://shipyourreptiles.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://shipyourreptiles.com</a><!-- m --> I just got the email today. Also if anyone is looking, he has a lone pair of red Ackies for sale and 5 clutches of eggs brewing at present! 'Bout time!!

I got that email too!!!!!! We don't have money for them even if he had a bunch.