Warning - Purchasing Butterflies from Cuba via Argentina

Andres, you can sell your specimens for whatever price you desire. I am just questioning your price to me, which was promised to be cheaper for larger quantities, and turned out not to be true. I still have the original offer of 10 "A1" specimens on file and the 3 or 4 iems which were salvageable from that shipment did sell, but I lost money on them as I could only command an A1 price for the specimen that was A1. The page on my website indicates a 0.00 fee as the material is out of stock so if anybody ordered one by mistake the price would not be automatically calculated in their order. All my out of stock items have prices removed but pictures remain for viewing.
I entered into the business transaction believing as stated that they would be A1 condition. They are still being offered on Insectnet as A1 - check that listing out for goodness sake. Not provided. Nobody could have missed the condition of those specimens if one had just taken a little time to look, and it did not need a very extensive look, as one can see by the photos. Nobody at your end was taking the care to look. Basically I just felt that someone was thinking "just send Ken anything we want, he will probably accept it and maybe not even look at it"
I even offered to send all specimens back to you for a complete refund. But you did not address this situation. This offer still stands but the money needs to come back to me first. See my letter below:

Dear Andres

There are actually 19 pcs P. gundlachianus that would need replacing and 3 or 4 P. avellenada. (This is supposing I keep only the A1 and the A1/A1- material.)

I am wary to receive any replacements as twice now the majority have not been to acceptable standards to allow me to recoup my investment. So I would rather not receive any more replacement material of Cuban origin.

I am willling to send back the unusable material to you. Why do you not wish me to do so? It is only common sense to do this in being honest.

If you wish then, I will stick with my original summary of the prices for different conditions and send you the small balance remaining.

Or the other other alternative could be is that I return all the material to you and you refund all my payments excepting the first 750.00 for the original shipment of 10 pcs.

Please advise.

Regards

Anyway, as you say you refuse to discuss this anymore: That is fine. End of discussion. My advice still stands to prospective buyers - only pay once you are satisfied that the goods deliver what was promised. Don't accept a large lot of mixed qualities if you are promised good stuff. Do your homework. Check out the market prices, and if you are in the business of reselling then you better be able to make a reasonable mark up on your investment. The person you are buying from for you to resell should not be offering them out to the retail trade at the same prices you bought them for from him. Otherwise you have been misled, as I was. It is called business or fair trade. You will lose money, no matter what the promises.
There is no envy or fear of competition involved. I am sure all the major dealers have done quite well over the years without offering Cuban material, I know I have, otherwise they would not all still be in business. Endemic Cuban material is nice but it is the same as endemics from other places, nice to have only if the quality is all good and the price is right, but not essential. It is not the bread and butter of the trade.



Ken