price dropping

i just need to rant here...
i HATE it when i see someone selling a snake, or snakes for 2-3 hundred dollars less than what the "going rate" is.
yea,,, a few people get a few good deals,, and yea, the seller gets a little cash quicker,,,, but by doing this, it bottoms out the true value of a particular snake. before you know it, 2011 pieds are going for 4-5 hundred dollars,,, oh wait..............................................:rage:
spooky

They are going to depreciate in value anyway I don't see it as a big problem, but I personally wouldn't do it unless I couldn't sell the animal otherwise.

It is annoying though. :mad:

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Originally Posted by The Serpent Merchant

They are going to depreciate in value anyway I don't see it as a big problem, but I personally wouldn't do it unless I couldn't sell the animal otherwise.

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but to depreciate $500 in one year??????

Supply and demand.

These days, your neighbor is breeding Pieds too.

One of the things which determines price is scarcity. In 2012, piebalds are not a scarce snake. They've been around a few years and like anything which can reproduce they become more common and therefore less rare and less expensive.

Everything comes down in price. Pieds, deserts, fires, lessers--all of it. The multiple gene combos are where the higher prices are going to be now, and I can't understand how some of them are so high. A fire and vanilla cross--wow, to me that is way over what the cost of the components would indicate. Watch how fast that price comes down over the next three or four years because there will be more of them. They'll be like pewters--pretty snakes but less expensive than they were.

I've said this before and I'll say it again.

One person's price does not dictate the market.

Who cares what one breeder sells their pieds for? It only becomes a problem if other people start setting their prices that low too. This person is only hurting themself. It only hurts everyone else if everyone else lowers their price to match.

I bought my xbox 360 two years ago for double the price. It's inevitable for every type of "product". I in no way see my snakes as product, but you know what I mean :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by CapeFearConstrictors

I've said this before and I'll say it again.

One person's price does not dictate the market.

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I second that fully. Pieds aren't as rare as they were a few years ago. Think about all the "cheaper" morphs like pastels and spiders....they were once a lot higher than they are now but now you can pick up a pastel for under $100 every day. Maybe he's tried to sell those at the regular 800-900 price range, but can' sell them? It might be annoying but its not going to drop the market.

Makes you wonder what those of use that paid several thousand dollars for a morph feel when we see them going for a couple of hundred..P.S. my pied is a 2006 male ;) do that math.