What Morphs USED to cost ....

[Chuckels]

Surfing the interwebz because I couldn't sleep, and found these pictures. HOLY CRAP!

These are not my photographs, I do not claim them to be mine, and have no affiliation to them.

Look at the freakin reduced clown! It wont let me link the images to the post, so I figured I'd just post the site.

http://www.deadlybeautiful.com/Snake...33324101_TqmFp

For those that are scared to click the link ....

Theres 3 photos that are like holy crap ..... $25,000 Male Bumble Bee, $30,000 Male Butter, and a pic of some clowns that are like Ralph Davis's "Flatline" minus the yellowing.

Trey

[TMurphy]

A base Spider used to cost 25k....a pair of Het Pieds used to cost 30k....and so on....
Triple morphs cost less now a days than what the base morph was selling for yrs ago.

[tcutting]

the market has completely changed in the last 5-6 years now those prices are older than that however it just goes to show there really isnt much money to be made in thie hobby unless you are really producing a lot of babies.

[Freakie_frog]

Yep. I can remember Lessers being 50K, Calico's were 10-15K, Pieds were 10-15K, pinstripes were 5-8k. Hell I paid 1500 for a female pastel baby and people wonder why I roll my eyes cause they thing 200.00 is to expensive for a spider.

[Redneck_Crow]

Snake pricing is like anything else--supply and demand.

When a morph is new, big demand and small price.

After it becomes less scarce through breeding, the price goes down.

That's bad news if you are a breeder with a rare morph. On the other hand, I'm glad that piebalds are down to a price that I can afford to buy them instead of window shopping on the internet.

[EverEvolvingExotics]

Great thread!

How have most breeders taken the decrease in price but the increase in popularity? I wasn't around when THOSE prices were valid. I do remember spiders being $1000-1500, lessers being about $1800, pieds were around $5-6000. I can understand being bitter dropping $1500 on a spider and now selling them for $150. I can also see it being much easier to sell. There is a very small amount of people willing to spend $3000 on a single animal, much less $25000. On the other hand a lot of people are willing to spend $300-1000 on a single animal.

[mainbutter]

Going back 6+ years on fauna classifieds, it seems that market prices drop by about half every 18-24 months.

Whether that has held true since the first pastel was available, or will hold true in the future.. *shrugs*, but the cumulative power of halving a price every two years is pretty big.

Supply and demand, people. Breed lots of spiders, sell 'em to lots of people who will them breed them and produce more will only force the market price lower and lower, unless new demand is created.. Essentially unless you can recruit a new herpetoculturist to the hobby for every hatchling you produce, prices for any particular morph will diminish and eventually level out somewhere around the cost to produce.

[spitzu]

Our little pyramid scheme

[Abaddon91]

well it would ssem that the price of pieds and ablbinos would be aot lower if the market was halfing itself every 2 or so years just the albino has been around for decades and its still 300-500 but its trure supply and demand too bad we cant unite under one banner and be like the oil trade 3.55 a gal in my part for a berral of oil thats the cheapest its been in 18 months ya suppy and demand

[EverEvolvingExotics]

I don't know...if all morphs leveled out in price, I think breeders would make more than it costs to produce. Saying all morphs are equal, I would average about 6 egg clutches. I would sell my piebalds and normals for about $50 a piece. That is $300 per clutch. I don't know about you but it doesn't cost me $300 a year to house, heat, and feed each snake.

Oh man...$50 for a killer clown creamsicle. I'll take two! Hahaha...