Refund updates

El has agreed to refund me. She says she can't refund shipping costs, which I completely understand, as that would be coming out of her own pocket, and she hasn't done anything horrible or criminal, she just made a mistake. It's hardly fair to penalize her that much for it. So kudos to her! I might reccommend you wait a month or two while she gets the hang of shipping things, but I would definitely say she's a good person to go to if you want beautiful art.

Randomsabers, on the other hand, has basically said "screw you." They're only giving me half my money back, because technically this is in their TOS, and they never gave me any specific dates or estimates. But when they have projects listed by days of working time, and I am behind about 50 days worth of projects, I can be forgiven for assuming that we're taking considerably less than a year to get my project done, not MORE than TWO years. Maybe they're not legally in breach of contract, and I'll take the half refund and write it off and a lesson learned, but I'm also telling you, NEVER do business with www.randomsabers.com They will take your money for the privilege of waiting years, and make no real effort to satisfy dissatisfied people. They've covered their own asses, they don't care about you or your happiness at all.

More pony!

Well, now that Harli has safely gotten her, I can share her with the rest of you. This pony is the daughter of Kiwi Tart and Tex. Kiwi Tart's symbol is a slice of kiwi pie. Tex's is a cactus. So how do you cross those two?

( With a Prickly Pear Pie, of course )

And in other good news, the Angelsong pony arrived safely today as well, and I shipped off a heap of Windstones and ponies and things, and will ship more, hopefully, on Friday. Glee! Now I just need to get sewing so I can finish this fox plush.

It's too bad I'm an honest person

I'm reading this massive thread on one of the snake communities about a guy who pulled a huge scam, and then had it all come falling down around his ears. And it's really funny, because I found myself thinking about all the stupid mistakes this guy made, and before I knew it, I'd thought up The Perfect Crime. I could make SO much money, and nobody would ever be able to conclusively prove that I did anything wrong, and by the time anybody even suspected anything, I'd be long gone.

Sadly, the scheme involves outright ripping people off, so I can't do it. There's just no way on earth I could bring myself to.

But man... it would make so much money. If I were lucky I could get something like 100k over four years, for just 2-5K investment, and probably less than $1k in expenses, and I would even get most of the initial investment back when I closed down the scheme and vanished into the sunset. And I would hardly have to do any work, it would involve breeding just one clutch of eggs a year.

Now if only there were an ethical way for me to make that kind of mad profit. *sigh* Sadly there isn't. Although I do occasionally toy with the notion of getting into snake breeding, you can get a pretty decent return on a modest investment, but it takes at least a year, and that's if the snakes cooperate and actually mate, which sometimes they don't. And I don't want to have to screw around with incubators and cycling snakes and all that crap. Though at least I know how to figure the genetics. Upkeep isn't too expensive, you're out $150 to get a decent setup, and at 1 mouse a week, X 2 snakes = 100 mice, which is around $50 plus whatever shipping comes to, if you buy in bulk. But meh. I hate waiting a week to see if something sells on ebay! Waiting months, possibly years to see if I get a return on my investment? Urgh, no. No snake breeding for me. I mean, I suppose of somebody just walked up to me and gave me an expensive morph, I'd pretty much have to. (Particularly if it turned out to be the opposite gender from whatever Anthony actually is) but I'm pretty sure the odds of that are low. The kind of guy whose snakes get rescued and need to be rehomed is not the kind of guy who's buying $5k piebalds or fireballs or whatever. (Man, if somebody gave me a fireball, I'd be forced to breed, with a start like that. A fireball is money in the bank, no matter what you breed it with. You can make MAD profit with those things. Man... now I'm tempted all over again, but even with the Windstone money, I don't have the cash to get a fireball, they are not cheap.)

*ahem* Anyhow... yaysnakes! *wanders off*