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Originally Posted by JCali  Am I the only one who think her response sounds like another scam? Sorry to SweetViolet if this is not the case. It just seems suspicious that she immediately jumps in to defend overseas adoptions (which have "bad idea" written all over to me) and then says that she could get a puppy for one of us. How convenient. It sounds to me like she is trying to get someone to respond to her and ask her to get a puppy for them. Maybe she would be able to, but I get the feeling that that person wouldn't receive that promised puppy. Plus, by the time you pay for the additional health charge, airline charge, and crate you wouldn't have to spend that much more to have the security of buying from a place that you can check out and where you can meet the pups before buying one. Scams can happen anywhere, but anything to do with overseas I wouldn't trust. |
Thank you for impugning my integrity based on nothing more than a stereotype and your failure to understand what I have written. At no time did I offer to get anyone a pup...I'm not offering. In fact, if you want one, I will graciously decline. First of all, I don't want to do all the work to source one and secondly, I don't like the idea of shipping a puppy, especially all that distance.
If you've bothered to actually READ what I wrote, you will note that I turned down that championship bloodline puppy because I won't buy a pup sight unseen and I didn't want to drive 2800 kilometres to see it. Instead, I bought a pup that was a lot closer...after I drove a four hour round trip to see the litter.
Furthermore, if you actually understood what I wrote, you would see that I did NOT defend overseas adoptions, what I said was that you cannot automatically assume something is a scam simply because of where it comes from. You need to do more work than that unless being intellectually lazy and dealing in stereotypes is your preferred way of "thinking."
Just for the record, I am an American. I lived in the Bay Area for 30 years until I married a South African and moved here in 2003. It angers and embarrasses me when Americans automatically assume that because something comes from outside America it is automatically inferior or a scam.
America does not have a monopoly on either quality or integrity. It further irritates me when people assume that Africa is monolithic...that every African and every African country are interchangeable. That's not only incorrect, it is ignorant.
Like I said before, the most recent Yorkie puppy scam I have seen was
Americans attempting to scam South Africans by offering puppies at prices that were low even with the 10-to-1 exchange rate taken into account. And in case you don't know what that means, it means a puppy costing R4500 here (what I paid for Puddin' and near the top of our price range) translates to $450US. One our YT members, who lives in my city, got her pup for R1500. You do the math...