Morphs dropping prices

Jeez!! Ive only been on here for 4 months and ive seen some big changes. Is this just because of the holidays and the next season coming or something else?
For example I just saw on kingsnake a female bee and a male pastel for 600 shipped. I mean for people like me who arent breeding right know its great but how do you guys who live off of it cope with it?

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Originally Posted by jjsnakedude

how do you guys who live off of it cope with it?

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Breed more of them.

You ought to go look at what the prices have dropped from in the last 5 years. That will really make your jaw hit the floor.

I haven't been into the ball python morphs and breeding for very long, but the differences in prices in just these 2 years. I purchased my female pinstripe in 2008. She's an '07, and bought her for $600. Now a female pin is only around $300. I kind of miss how expensive snakes were. All these morphs that used to be thousands of dollars are now mere hundreds. I kind of like the expensive prices because it gives me something to strive for.

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Originally Posted by Jay_Bunny

I haven't been into the ball python morphs and breeding for very long, but the differences in prices in just these 2 years. I purchased my female pinstripe in 2008. She's an '07, and bought her for $600. Now a female pin is only around $300. I kind of miss how expensive snakes were. All these morphs that used to be thousands of dollars are now mere hundreds. I kind of like the expensive prices because it gives me something to strive for.

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I feel your pain. In 2005, I paid $20,000 for a Pinstripe male, and now they are $300. By th time I sold my first Pinstripe, they were $1000. That's the way the market has been working for the last 4 years or so.

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Originally Posted by muddoc

I feel your pain. In 2005, I paid $20,000 for a Pinstripe male, and now they are $300. By th time I sold my first Pinstripe, they were $1000. That's the way the market has been working for the last 4 years or so.

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:O OMG!!!! That sux!

There are 2 sides of the coin, if your a breeder its horrible but if your a buyer it makes some of the earlier really expensive morphs more reachable now which is great.

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Originally Posted by muddoc

Breed more of them.

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The problem with this is the more you make the less their worth.

Supply and demand rules the roost which is why doms, co-doms and supers are and continue to drop in price.

so true the het pieds I got and had saved for ( 3 years) were bought for 800 ( total )in 2007 I have also aquired a possible het pied l after wards as a rescue) now I can buy an mid white pied for about 800 bucks and I am workingon proving out my pieds this year so if lucky I might get the 800 bucks but I doubt it since the prices keep dropping.

I gotten in the last 3 years het axanthic ( pair) het pied( pair) albino (visible) and a pinstripe and a butter. in all I spent about 2-3 grand in the snakes ( just buying ) and I be lucky unless I create a wicked combo will notget that back inthe next 10 years lol..

I bet pinstripe,butter,lessers and spider ( co dom/dom ) traits snakes will all get ot the price of pastels in the next 2-3 years. After that it hard to say were the prices will go I am gussing if there no ban it can vary

they had clowns on kingsnake for 750.00. And it was a female !

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Originally Posted by mechnut450

I bet pinstripe, butter, lessers and spider ( co dom/dom ) traits snakes will all get to the price of pastels in the next 2-3 years.

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As the supply goes up these too should level off "as a guess" just above the cost of pastels, in the end it will be the more popular one of these that hold a slightly higher value than the rest, which one that is is anybodys guess.

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Originally Posted by mechnut450

After that it hard to say were the prices will go I am guessing if there no ban it can vary

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I doubt they ever reach zero :P
Yes, it's difficult to say where they land in value 2-3 years from now.