Re: [Alpacasite] Re: ARI fees

Hi Lucy, I accept the confusion in shifting offices, but the lab errors are a whole 'nuther ball of wax! The DNA is on record, for the parents, so if the markers don't show up matching the offspring, then it should be one of three sources of error: wrong parent, bad lab technique or computer error. We should only have to pay for the worng parent being submitted! The lab takes the cost of the last 2 errors. Am I wrong here? I know of no regular lab, testing humans or animals, that wouldn't cover the retesting when they mess up, free re-draw, free retesting. It is outrageous that we all are having to pay for their mistakes, and I don't care if it was clerical or lab based. We buy each new version of the FTA cards (do I care if it's one circle, two circles or three circles??) many pay the vet to draw blood, and then send it all in again to start over. This poor business practice needs to be corrected right now! Too many of us are forced to pay multiple registration fees for a single animal. It doesn't help now, to look back at how it all ran in the good old days, I never had a single problem. But to those who pushed for the big change, are you happy with that decision now? I am much happier with the Nebraska bunch. The Virginia office was a total fiasco from day one til the switch to Nebraska. Ok, ARI board members, step in and help us out here. Take care, Jane Levene
P.S. I'm not really angry or actually upset, much too busy for wasted emotions like that! But too many breeders are getting tagged with the extra fees unnecessarily. And boy, do I hope this doesn't put my latest bloodwork into perpetual limbo!

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From: "LUCY FARRAR" <FARRAR1036@msn.com>

> 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
> Home of Peruvian Desert Sun, whose dam is the $205,000 female!!
> Peruvians Aladdin & Avanti, too
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