T U R T L E S A L E . C O M regularly sells sick and dying turtles and they do not care one bit about them or their customers! Far too many people who have ordered from them have received sick, dying or dead (yes, DEAD ON ARRIVAL!!!) turtles. It's not just RES but other more exotic turtles too. Baby turtles are usually on death's door while the more expensive adult turtles are usually wild-caught or farm raised from very poor conditions. This is evident by their poor shell condition including but not limited to shell-rot, fungus, open sores, holes, scars, etc.
Every customer who had complained to them has been verbally abused. They insist on having the sick or dead turtle shipped back to them at the customer's expense, and they will only send you a replacement which is usually another sick, dead or dying turtle. They will not give refunds and they will keep playing this game until you finally give up. Many customers, concerned for the health of the turtle, went to a vet immediately after receiving their turtle not knowing what was wrong. Upon learning how sick the turtle was, they requested reimbursement from T U R T L E S A L E . C O M for the vet treatments but were instead told to return the animal for replacement. This has been especially gut wrenching for the customer knowing that if they send the animal back, it will either die in shipment, be resold to some other unsuspecting customer, or just left to die in miserable conditions. The only other option is to keep the animal and to try to nurse it back to health at great cost to themselves in both time and money. Half the time the poor turtle dies anyway because of the horrible conditions that it came from at T U R T L E S A L E . C O M !!
DO NOT SUPPORT THEM!! More and more reptile forums are beginning to take a stand against them. They are very savvy business people who have been able to use Google Advertising to display their banners across many commercial reptile websites, misleading people into thinking that they are endorsed by the site. They are profitting off the misery and suffering of hundreds if not thousands of turtles. Do NOT buy ANYTHING from them. Do NOT give them your BUSINESS. And by all means, PLEASE LET OTHERS KNOW...
