This may be an odd question but it popped into my head recently so I figured I would ask.
Can you post animals on Morphmarket that are not ready to go yet, but take deposits/full payment to hold them for someone until they are ready?
Eg- I hatch a ball python and post it, however it still needs x amount of feedings to be shipped safely.
Welcome to the community, @snakelizard12 . Thatâs a fun user name! Thatâs also a perfectly reasonable question. The answer is yes, thatâs possible with a paid MorphMarket membership. What youâre describing is what we call âpreestablished.â (You can list an established animal who is ready to go without a paid membership.)
@snakelizard12 Besides what @caryl said, Iâve never come across a seller yet (State side or Overseas) who wouldnât accept an animal with a deposit unless they specifically mentioned in their ad. Most sellers have some sort of payment plan available for animals, and can be found within their own store policy. 
Oh man, this whole time Iâve been thinking pre-established meant âalready establishedâ. But that makes much more sense!
I thought the same thing lol
I still donât fully understand why itâs called preestablished. I get that in its simplest explanation âpreâ meaning before, its âbefore establishedâ but I think thereâs a better way to indicate that.
I for the longest time thought it meant the animal was already established and eating.
I dunno, âpreestablishedâ makes perfectly good sense to me. The animal has been hatched/born, but is being established in feeding and growth. Not sure what other term would make more sense.
The definition of the word means something that has been established in advance.
I understand the prefix being used to make it seem like âbefore being establishedâ but the actual definition of the word differs from how weâre using it here.
Why not just ânot yet establishedâ?
Thatâs what I have been thinking! And then I wondered why if the animal is pre established then why would the animal need a few more meals? Duh! lol 
Okay, well glad to hear Iâm not crazy! And the traditional definition of the word is what I was thinking - established in advance. So maybe MorphMarket needs to find a better term? I would hate for someone to buy a non-established baby thinking that they were getting the exact opposite, if the seller didnât make it clear in the description.
Wow! Merriam-Webster Webster! I was just remarking to my husband a few days ago that we should be sure to keep the enormous MB dictionary I used when I was taking college courses! Long time ago! Lol! One of these days one of those things will be in the Smithsonian! Lol!
Good points guys!
How about âUnestablishedâ?
I list animals as âpre-establishedâ for snakes that have had less than 3 meals.
I update after 6 meals to say âhatchlingâ.
But just using the definition of pre-established, it doesnât work. Going by the definition, there wouldnât be a difference between a hatchling on food ready to go and one thatâs pre-established.
Gotcha! That makes excellent sense. 
Tomato potato if you want to split hairs. Breeders will post pre-established if they would not ship out the animal then and there that day if a sale came through. Hatchling means established and ready to go if purchased today. Thatâs how I view it, and I bet most others who actually use pre-establish it use it that way as well.
I get it, but for those that arenât big breeders using that term, it is incorrect. For pure semantics sakes, itâs entirely wrong to call it per-established. We canât just make up a definition for a word that already has an established definition.
Take it up with Darien since heâs the one that requested/required their to be a new term for it for listings.
We actually added this in December of last year, way earlier than Darien joining 
Shush you 