1000 Medium (1/2") Banded Crickets

Keep getting shipments with spiders. By the time they get to me spiders are fat and crickets are dead or i dont see them when i dump right away and the spiders kill off the whole bunch of crickets...always the same beige spiders with back stripes.Not always but last 3 shipments. :(

There were maybe 300 to 400 crickets in the box I received. I ordered 1000. Some were dead, which is expected, but to not even have the number of crickets close to what I purchased is frustrating.

Have used Bassetts Crickets on and off for 30 years. Always a quality product

Bro, the box is not sealed. Like when I say not sealed it's a normal box with a thin strip of tape on the outer flaps only and applied loosely. I set the box down on the floor inside my home and walked away to finish my work, and returned to the crickets all over my lower-level living room. :O To say that I was instantly disgusted and freaked out is an understatement but I figure the best thing to do was get the remaining crickets contained and then grab my shop vac for the rogue crickets that had already made their escape into my home. Upon opening the box I discovered the issue the crickets are loose inside the outer box so opening it was also a disaster. There was an immediate volcano 🌋 of crickets followed by another wave and another wave... I quickly clapped the box flaps back down and ran for the door 🚪 sprinkling more awol crickets across my home, and ended up in my pajamas on my driveway covered in crickets 🦗 while my neighbors looked on in visible concern as I proceed to panic throw the box down and run around trying to get them off me and my clothes. The curved bill Thrasher living in my bush out front found a lot of joy in his free meal and a show tho and happily came down and ate his fill of the casualties. My son's bearded dragon Ender 🐉 enjoyed her meal after the crisis was over but I am not gonna order these again... I'll go back to the other company with a sealed cricket box habitat Inside a shipping box and the habitat box has a pour spout and ventilation installed on the habitat. 📦

The crickets look good and healthy, I feed them to 3 Bearded Dragons and 1 Gecko. They normally do not have a bad smell. My biggest problem is, the last 2 shipments there have been spiders in with the crickets. The last box had 6 spiders in it. 6 spiders eat a lot of crickets before they get here.

I’ve ordered so many crickets from this seller and I’ve been more than happy everytime

There were not even 600 crickets in this box of 1000. And 1/2, of them were dead. Terrible product. The crickets were also all different sizes

I read all the reviews on all different sizes from Bassetts sales. With my first purchase I figured if I even got half of my order alive I would still be ahead with regards to gas and what I’m paying in the big box pet store. My first shipment was great so I have placed a few orders without much incident. The only minor gripe I’d had until this last order was that you never really know what size crickets you’re going to get. So after my 2nd order I started ordering smaller just in case. Plus that gave me time to house them until my baby bearded dragon at them all. My first few orders were 500 crickets. Since there had been no real issues my last order was for 1000.I DO NOT RECOMMEND ORDERING 1000!It’s impossible to count these things, but here is what I know to be true. I had at least a weeks worth of crickets from my previous order of 500 in my cricket housing tank (where I keep them like pets Feeding and watering until feeding time for our BD) when I received my shipment of “1000”. Within about 15 days I was nearly out of crickets. Doing the math means I was shorted crickets considerably. Running out that quickly means I would’ve had to be feeding my baby BD over 60 crickets a day. We feed roaches, crickets and larva. In this round of bugs we feed about 20-30 roaches for breakfast and about 20-30 crickets for dinner.Bottom line- they didn’t sell us 1000. My gripe is not that we were shorted so much as the seller has completely ignored our messages for about a week now and doesn’t appear to have responded to Amazons customer service messages either. I wasn’t hoping for a refund, but just want to other half of my shipment. And maybe an apology. Not sure I’ll buy from Bassetts again unless the seller has sent an apology. Amazon guarantees the sale so I’ll get my $35 back anyway. Seems like a silly way to lose a customer.Hope this review saves you some time and energy.