What's The Best Deal?

[Revenant]

I've had a few freebies. I was given a female albino burm about six feet, and a nice enclosure for her. My husband isn't comfortable with burms, so it was only while we found a nice home for her. She'd been left behind when a tenant moved out, and the landlord had left her untouched (no water, food, power, nothing) for thirty days before she asked me to take the whole thing. She really had a nice temperament, it is really a shame the keeper felt the need to dump her like that.

I live in a college town, so I've come across free corn snakes, a beardie, king snakes, and a ball python in similar ways. A lot of them keep pets for a few semesters and dump them before moving. The feral cat population is crazy because of this. I generally keep the herps quarantined for a bit and move them on to other homes for free.

With snakes I pay for, I usually don't get absurdly good deals, but I've had great luck getting respectable deals by lingering around at the very end of the last day of shows, and making an offer to vendors packing up 'leftovers' on the way home. I can usually get an animal for about 50% of the show price this way. My husband is mortified of my haggling at shows, but it works lol.