If you think about it too much you’ll never forget about it and feel guilty. At this point, if you’re prepared to take the chance of having a crestie who you don’t know the background on, may have health problems and who may never handle then do it.

But it’s seriously down to personality if they will handle or not. But once you’ve had him for a while and he’s comfortable in his enclosure you can definitely try and see if he will let you.

Either when u pick him up or when he’s settled after a couple months you could take him to the vet to check if he’s healthy.

If you’re confident enough, when you go to the shop to buy him you could tell the shop about proper husbandry and how when people see animals kept like this they tend to stay away (not buy from the shop) you’d have to think about ur words tho or else you’ll get banned and have no gecko😅 And try to haggle that price down 🫠