How to price

[BCS]

I am just curious of how I would go about pricing a morph? Usually I would just look up at the many snake sellers websites but sometimes there are times I cannot find a price. The basic morphs are usually really easy to figure out a price but morphs with combos is a little tougher. So say I have a pastel leopard spider pied <-- (hoping to make this next year), how would I go about figuring out the right price to sell them at?

[WmHrbst]

I typically check Kingsnake and get a idea of what a animal is going for. Keep in mind, quality as well

Here is the link http://market.kingsnake.com/index.php?cat=32

[Marissa@MKmorphs]

I price based off of what the animal is worth to me, and then compare to "market" price. If I am way off, I'll adjust my prices a little, but not much.

I have noticed that my animals are normally right at or slightly over market price, but the quality of my animals is typically higher than average also.

[BCS]

I price based off of what the animal is worth to me, and then compare to "market" price. If I am way off, I'll adjust my prices a little, but not much.

I have noticed that my animals are normally right at or slightly over market price, but the quality of my animals is typically higher than average also.

Yes, but I cannot sell an animal at $1600 just because I think it is pretty. If I cannot find the exact morph when comparing with other's prices, how would I go about doing that?

[Marissa@MKmorphs]

Yes, but I cannot sell an animal at $1600 just because I think it is pretty. If I cannot find the exact morph when comparing with other's prices, how would I go about doing that?

There are a lot of factors that go into pricing. Age, sex, size, combo, hets, what its feeding on and feeding response, and most importantly the quality of the genes that it is carrying.

Is there a certain animal that you are trying to price out?

If a snake is worth $1600 to you by all means price it as such. These are living breathing animals that have value. Be patient, screen your buyers, and the right person who values that animal just as much as you do will come along.

[BCS]

There are a lot of factors that go into pricing. Age, sex, size, combo, hets, what its feeding on and feeding response, and most importantly the quality of the genes that it is carrying.

Is there a certain animal that you are trying to price out?

If a snake is worth $1600 to you by all means price it as such. These are living breathing animals that have value. Be patient, screen your buyers, and the right person who values that animal just as much as you do will come along.

Okay, I am not really sure what I am looking for when you say quality? Would that mean high whites, low whites kind of thing? I have a medium pied female who I think is gorgeous and I tend to like medium pieds more then high whites or low whites so to me that is better quality, but that would be an opinion right, not quality.

[Daigga]

Ah, economics, my old enemy. I will point out that your intended combo might be a challenge since the spider gene tends to make extremely high white pieds (spieds and bumblebee pieds tend to only have color/pattern on the head and sometimes not even on the entire head), which could make identifying leopard very difficult.

A couple things factor into the price of a snake including your own reputation, quality of the animal, and overall what people are willing to pay. I don't know that there is necessarily a formula, though. I found one bumbleebee pied female for sale from NERD, but she's 2500 which is a bit off from what I would have expected (to be fair, every big name breeder is going to have prices that seem pretty high compared to what hobbyist produce).

[Lizardlicks]

Okay, I am not really sure what I am looking for when you say quality? Would that mean high whites, low whites kind of thing? I have a medium pied female who I think is gorgeous and I tend to like medium pieds more then high whites or low whites so to me that is better quality, but that would be an opinion right, not quality.

With pieds, that's sort of down to personal preference as far as high, low or medium white go. I prefer mine to be at a medium, enough to show the color and pattern that exists and still register as something unique. Pieds are a recessive gene, and those tend to go a bit higher than a dom or co-dom single gene animal, but single gene pied are becoming much more common, which means their prices have gone down over the last couple years. In this case, personality, feeding response, current size, and whether or not she's proven out as a good breeder would influence the final price.

[Marissa@MKmorphs]

In regards to pieds, I look at the patterned area of the snake and look for color, pattern, and contrast. I like bright, high contrast pieds. I have a 50/50 medium white girl that looks better than most pastel pieds or yellowbelly pieds because she is a lighter/brighter colored pied with higher contrast. She is about 1400 grams now.




So, yes she is a single gene pied, but because of her color, high contrast, and strong feeding response I would price her more than other pied females of her same age/size.

[Chkadii]

Some people have price differences based on how much white their pied has, but what I personally look for in terms of quality is how bright the pied is in the colored areas. Some hold color really well, while others turn dark brown and get a bit muddy looking as adults.