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Originally Posted by kjcmsw

One would like to think so but that's not what she said. Now she says she'd only consider someone she has to "beg" to get a dog from. And a wait list?? What's with that? I hardly would judge a dog by how hard it was to get it. There's always the first one on the list too.
Like I said I wouldn't just sell to anyone that (after learning I had pups to sell) responded. I want my pups to go to a good home, thus letting people know there is a pup available and then being selective of the buyer is how to achieve that goal. Sometimes the best lists fall apart and people get tired of waiting - so much for the list one acquired...it happens.
Of course one has to be careful, I myself have had people try to get me to sell them a dog and they were clearly scammers. If someone responds to me regarding a pup I will send them pictures, and copy of the pup's pedigree and some "general" information along with more personal contact information. If they are interested further I will assume they will (after being encouraged) to call and talk more, then after that if they'd like to see the pups they can and we go from there.
Say I only had a female available and they wanted a boy, I would then refer them to a good breeder I know that may have a boy available, etc (which would also include asking them if they prefer to be on a wait list, etc). It's a process. It starts with communication on both sides. Sometimes someone will have a pup available & call the person on their list and that person is no longer interested (for whatever their entitled reason not to be interested is), thus you now have a pup available. The next potential buyer might end up being very lucky to get the pup right at that time, so how hard it is to acquire a pup doesn't say anything about the pup's quality.
Once people on this forum know you have pups to sell, a person gets so inundated with emails from all over it's so much easy to only let those in your area actually looking know you have pups. Unless ones ships, then I'd say it'd be okay to let everyone know, but if someone doesn't ship, then why go through all that - sorting though emails, getting someone's hopes up (only to find out their location knocked them out of the running), etc
I think people should be encouraging the interested party to speak to YT members who might have pups to sell, but it seems some odd interest of some people to post misinformation making it more difficult for someone interested in getting puppy to get one. I've just yet to figure out why there's so much unsubstantiated information being posted that's all.
Is it assumed the potential buyer can't figure out a PM isn't legit?? What? Is it some people are jealous that someone has puppies for sale and they try to block the other's potential sales? Did they not do their own homework and got burned and assume all people are out to get them? It can't be for "protection" of the buyer, because if it was then only factual information would be posted (like beware of POSSIBLE scams - not all PM one's receives must be a scam)
Just hard for me to understand where people are coming from that's all.

It's obvious...problem is, you are a Breeder (by your own admission) and one who would cold-call a potential buyer just because you caught whiff of a sale...?

The thing is...it's Breeders who operate this way who are at the root of why Rescues keep getting calls from shelters & owner surrenders...when that great deal of a puppy turns out to be the opposite!