Re: Why We Are Idiots For Using Kingsnake.com To Price Our Animals
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Originally Posted by
JDL
why is it the auto industry (when actually only 2 car companies got money) is the butt end of the bail out jokes when the money they got wasnt anything compared to the money the finacial district got?
Its funny to most people?
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Originally Posted by
rabernet
That's when you ask - then why don't you buy from XYZ? If you like the animal that I'm offering better, because it's a NICER animal, then why would you be surprised it's priced accordingly?
If you like XYZ's prices more than the quality of the animal, then go buy from XYZ.
AMEN!!!!!
I have been thinking about pricing lately, what is the market???
The best animal I can hope for this year would be a super pastel 50% pos het albino, I HAVE NO CLUE HOW TO BASE THE VALUE OF THIS ANIMAL!!!!
I guess I will stick to what I think they are worth and if they sell great if not then I guess I will have to explain to my wife why I have more snakes then what I told her I would have.
Mike
Re: Why We Are Idiots For Using Kingsnake.com To Price Our Animals
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Originally Posted by
Wonka
Haha, just remember, alot of people getting into morphs find this site as a resource and use it to help them decide who to buy from. Resources like this site are what help spread the addiction of this hobby (and resulting markets such as the desire for morphs and caging and other incidentals), and this is where alot of newcomers learn through reputation and words who they want to deal with and who they wouldn't for some reason or another.
Ahh the difference a sarcastic pair of quotation marks or their omission can make!
:weirdface
Sweet! hopefully this is true and it will weed out a lot of the less then desirable customers. I do after all care where my snakes end up... :gj:
Re: Why We Are Idiots For Using Kingsnake.com To Price Our Animals
And when people who used this source as an inspiration to get into the hobby see what some breeders may think of them and get turned off by the whole deal, I guess you wouldn't have to worry about where your animals ended up because you'd have them all!
*wink*
After going to a show today it seems like there's already a shortage of people looking to spend decent money for BP's (I mean breeders were basically trying to give their animals away it seemed), last thing I would think anyone interested in opening up a market for all the breeders who use this site to pimp their wares would do is go and insult people who could catch on to the dream and buy some morphs.
But hey if calling most of the potential customers who walk up to yer booth failures works for your business more power to ya. I'd just ask you as hobbyist who might want to sell some offspring in the future... please insult the mass of OUR fellow hobbyists in private messages if you feel the need to rather than on a public forum which serves to help attract people to our hobby.
Thanks and Peace, and thanks to all the breeders who brought their animals to the Richmond show today even if you didn't get to sell as many as you would have liked... many cool breeders to talk to at the show.
Re: Why We Are Idiots For Using Kingsnake.com To Price Our Animals
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Originally Posted by
alikax
And when people who used this source as an inspiration to get into the hobby see what some breeders may think of them and get turned off by the whole deal
I think it is safe to say that if someone gets put off so much by someone elses opinion on a public snake forum, then it probably isn't a bad thing. After all, someone so quick to be turned off probably wouldn't make it the 30 years it takes to care for one of these snakes anyway. Right? :gj:
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Originally Posted by
alikax
But hey if calling most of the potential customers who walk up to yer booth failures works for your business more power to ya.
For the record, even though I keep getting accused of this, at no time have I used the term "failures." While plenty of the "Type B" will in the end be considered failures, not all of them will. After all, anyone can change if they want to, and are willing to do what it takes.
As far as what works for my business, I have absolutely no problem selling to nothing but snake nerds. Lucky for me, there is more then enough snake nerd demand out there to keep up with what I can supply. :gj:
