[Alpacasite] Re: ARI fees

Jane wrote: " Hey everyone, after just having to "re-pay" to get an animal registered, due to ARI lab error, or rather lack of results, I am steamed! "
Jane, I think you are in good company. I was just told yesterday that I needed to submit (and pay for) another blood card on a female that we drew blood on, paid for and submitted last August...that's August 2004! It took the lab 15 months to figure out, or at least to notify me, that the previous sample only yielded 8 markers....and of course now they want 14! And to top it all, I'll pay another $5 for every recompare. This gal has 6 registered crias, including her 2004 cria, with no problems on her import DNA. How did I get so lucky!! That, in addition to being billed $30 for a transfer that I initiated and paid for online with a credit card, kind of shifts me into your steamed category also.

To be fair, the current ARI office had a lot of "clean-up" to do on the billing/invoicing system (or lack of it) from the previous office. I recall getting a letter and print out about July 2004 asking me to check my records, verify them against theirs, and let them know if I owed any money or they owed me. I ask you: Would Dillard's still be in business if they didn't know how much I owed them each month and how much I had paid them??? Sorry, Jodi. Guess I'll have to run for the ARI board as punishment!
Lucy Farrar
Front Range Alpacas, LLC
Monument, CO ph. 719-488-0986
www.coloradoalpaca.com<http://www.coloradoalpaca.com/>
Home of Peruvian Desert Sun, whose dam is the $205,000 female!!
Peruvians Aladdin & Avanti, too

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