Pet Peeve! When sellers substitute or don't meet the order!

[fancbrd4me02]

I don't know if this is the right place to rant about this, but I am fed up with paying for something and not getting what I paid for! This happens a lot with hatching eggs, I buy them lots of sources, and too often the sellers are adding extras I don't want and not marking which they are, or substituting other eggs for the ones I purchased. It really upsets me. I have waited a really long time for a dozen eggs and the seller tells me they have sent only 10 of the breed I wanted (promised an assortment, now not actually getting one) and 2 of a breed I don't want. In fact, it's a breed I want nothing to do with but I won't be able to tell what it it is and now am stuck incubating something I hadn't planned on having. And this is not the first time. This really upsets me. Am I the only one that doesn't like this practice?

 

[Little Ameraucana Mom]

That would bother me also. I've had sellers add extras of other breeds, but I got the correct amount of the breed I paid for. I've sent other eggs(as extras) after the number of eggs they paid for was met, but Never with out asking if they'd like them first.

 

[Cluckin'Along]

Oooooh,
That would tick me off too! I don't have eggs to ship yet, but I have quite a mental list of the Do's and don't when I get there! Good luck with your extras, maybe you can sell them off?

 

[saddina]

Hatch them and give away the extras.

Thing is, chickens lay on thier terms. In order to have fresh eggs you can either save up a group and hope the buyer pays the day they order so you can send them, or else let people order eggs which haven't been laid. If you're getting 5/6ths of what you ordered you could ask for the 1/6th to be refunded, but sometimes live animals don't do what we expected.

 

[chickencoop31320]

I have included extras before, but only after filling the ordered breed and ESPECIALLY only after asking if the buyer wants extras and if they have a preference on the breed of extras... providing I have that kind... and I mark eggs with what pen they came from so they can at least have a hint of what they will be.

I second what Saddina said too...
chickens lay on their schedule, not ours...

I've been waiting patiently for some eggs that I already paid for and am not in the least upset that it has to be this way. I have been in contact with the seller and we have even joked about how the girls have their way of doing things...

 

[Katy]

I only send the breed that I sold and in the amount that was sold. I wouldn't want "extras" of another breed included either. Luckily I don't buy many eggs anymore so I don't have to worry about it. I also don't pre-sale because you never know what the hens are going to do.

 

[Wifezilla]

If I give extras, it is because I had a few more eggs than needed on delivery day BUT I only give extra of breed requested...no surprise breeds.

I have a box of pure Welsh Harlequin Hatching eggs at my desk right now awaiting pick up. The ordered 2 dozen, but they are getting 26 pure Welsh Harlequin hatching eggs.

 

[fancbrd4me02]

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I have waited 2 months for these and it wasn't a presale.

 

[speckledhen]

I'd be really ticked if someone sent me SILKIE eggs with my Plymouth Rocks! Yuk, phooey!

If I can't meet the total I am supposed to have for a buyer, I ask if they'd like additions of another breed or would they like me to wait till a later date, or would they like a few $$ refunded in the package.



***that said, I'd incubate them and give the chicks away pronto!

 

[Germaine_11.20]

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Ohhhh Cyn, now you know everyone is going to send you Silkie eggs don't you?

LOL They better not or they may go "on Vacation"

I think the way you do it is perfect! You can't ask for much else. And I have had extras breeds sent and did not like it when I had to re-home them. Course it was into the freezer, but still....