Possibly selling my garters

[sschind]

Decreasing sales over the last couple of years has forced me to close my shop. I am contemplating selling off my garters. This is a preliminary post to determine if anyone is interested. For now I will only sell them as a group and I will not ship them. I live in SE Wisconsin and you can pick them up or I can arrange to have them delivered to either Lee Watson's reptile Swap or the Grayslake Swap. or local delivery (up to 50 miles) can be arranged for a $25.00 fee. If I decide to split them up due to lack of interest in the group I will keep anyone in mind who expresses interest and let you know at that time. I will not split pairs unless you want to pay full price for one. Also, if I can not sell them locally, I will contemplate shipping in a month or two once things warm up a bit. Buyer will be responsible for shipping if I decide I need to go that route. I do have one possible claim on the Eastern Blacknecks from earlier correspondence so he will take precedence if he is still interested and if I decide to split and ship.

I will list the prices for the pairs but keep in mind that this is a group sale. These are the last of my personal collection so I am not giving them away. The only reason I am thinking of selling them is because once my store closes I will not be able to keep them in my apartment. If I can not get my asking price I will try to arrange with one of my employees to have her care for them. I am asking only what I paid for them when I bought them. If you think I paid too much then you won't be interested in them at these prices so you need not reply. I am not accepting offers at this time. I can try to get better pictures but I will tell you this much. The albino Checkereds are pretty much regular old albino checkereds. The Melanistic Easterns are Black snakes with a white chin and neck, also pretty standard. The Eastern Blacknecks on the other hand seem to be particularly bright. Their colors are not fading in the least. If you do a search you can find pictures I posted a few months ago compared to the ones now and they seem as bright to me. There are also pictures posted of the red sides under a post entitled Plains Garters (my mistake at the time)

I prefer email notification as I don't have the time to check back here very often now but I will try to make it back as often as I can.

Price for the group is $350.00 for local pickup or delivery to any of the swaps.


Here is what I have


1.1 Eastern Black Neck (Thamnophis cyrtopsis ocellatus) $150.00 Pair
Male was 14.51 grams on 2/1/07 female was 20.50 grams. Eating fish scented large pinkies.

1.1 Albino Checkered (Thamnophis marcianus marcianus) $50.00 pair
Male was 17.07 grams on 2/1/07 female was 17.47 grams. Eating unscented large pinkies.

1.1 Melanistic Eastern (Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis) $125.00 pair
Male was 18.92 grams on 2/1/07 female was 37.21 grams. Eating fish scented fuzzies and large pinkies.

2.0 Red Sided (Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis) 12.50 each
Male #1 weighed 5.95 grams on 2/1/07 male #2 weighed 6.53 grams. Eating rosies but take to them so well I doubt there will be a problem switching them over, at least to scented, pinkies soon.

0.0.1 Flame Eastern (Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis) freebie
This little guy will not eat on his own but will take rosies once you get them started. Currently I am getting about 3 rosies down him every 5 days. it is growing but ever so slowly.

Thanks for your consideration


Steve Schindler