My husband is having that SAME FIGHT with eBay right now because, as he sees it, eBay is just as guilty of scamming because they don't back the guarantee that appears on the auction page and the allow the seller to control all the feedback. Might be worth emailing them just so there's more than...
So sorry to hear there are more scams running out there... Imagine my surprise when bobfarm referred me to the ayam cemani thread here on BYC to try to justify why s/he calls the chipmunk babies the "wild type" but never responded when I pointed out that later in the thread a post spells out...
Hey there, that's exactly what our awesome extension agent said. He said (if I remember correctly) that the seller probably has a cemani male and breeds to partridge leghorns- you'd get some all black babies in various generations and then the chipmunks... and you'd get a lot more eggs than if...
Oh bummer. My husband bought them to surprise me for my birthday, don't know if he even considered that there would be egg scammers out there. Oh well, they are cuties anyway... really, really expensive cuties :P I'm assuming there is no legal action we can take w/ eBay to get our money back, it...
I think there are two all black, one black with a white belly and the rest are chipmunks. The eBay seller replied to me:
Dear *bat-girl*,
Sounds like wild types. Stripes are wild types. The wild type is the original color form of Cemani. They are recessive so if you breed them back to black...
Hmmm, this has been most informative. My husband bought 12 hatching eggs on Ebay- 9 hatched but there are several "chipmunk" striped ones in the bunch...