Buying from Ebay

[Black Cochin Bantams]

Any eggs shipped recently have a VERY small chance of being good. It gets well over 100 inside any truck that transports them. You have called out someone by name when everyone knows buyers take the risk that eggs may not hatch after shipping. Not smart! These statements are listed on every one of their ads. I copied and pasted this from ravenstorm5102 ads. Quit whining. This person has a 99+% positive feedback rating.

package my egg's very well. They are shipped in egg cartons(except goose eggs), tissue & bubble wrap(& packed with filler paper). Other expenses are packaging tape and lables(hatching egg, fragile, do not drop..etc..), I purchase here on E-Bay! These are all supplies I purchase to make sure egg's are shipped as safe as they can be on my part. Once I leave the post office, the safty of your egg's is out of my hands!

I can not be responsible for damaged or missing boxes once they have been placed into the mail system! I do guarantee that my eggs are fresh and are of the breed being purchased. I am unable to guarantee hatchability or offer Refunds/Exchanges due to numerous variables (such as shipping, handling of eggs, x-ray, temperature, incubators, and methods of incubation...etc) that are simply out of my control once your eggs leave my possession, beacuse of this, please remember "Shipped Eggs" may have a tendency to have a "50% or less" hatch rate.

 

[StevenW.]

Goose eggs at this time of year?
They would have to be infertile anyway. Geese stop laying around Late May, Early June.

And plus Sebastopol eggs are hard to hatch because you have to trim the parents feathers for them to be fertile.

 

[tnchickenut]

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Exactly. I pack at a LOSS in the summer to keep the heat out. I purchased a very expensive roll of a heat reflexive material to help hatch rates out by reflecting some heat and shipping out at strategic times, but still, I can't be responcible if you don't hatch out what you wanted to hatch out. I have bought eggs of all sizes and types and had them shipped in from all over... some hatched well and some didn't. It's the way it goes.

Just recently I had two shipments of the same two breeds (one chicken and one call ducks - both in each shipment) from the same person... 7 days apart.... the first batch didn't hatch anything at all and the second hatched all but two. So I really get fired up when someone judges a seller based on one shipment.