How much does that cost?

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Originally Posted by DakotaB

Th Goldfinger morphs that came out a few years back were at $750,000 for the male and $1,000,000 for the females. Who would buy that? haha

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For those who do not know it was a joke, those snakes were not for sale, but instead of writing "nfs" they put that. Though i'm sure they would of been willing to sell for that price lol.

60K price I don't understand since I thought I saw some banana pastels and banana pins for 20k last year, maybe It was another high end morph, I donno.

Mostly it's to have the morph's genetics to either produce it themselve, or be the FIRST to produce a certain combo. The first of a spectacular combo could fetch almost as much as it intital price, meaning that all the other offspring produced(rem males can be bred to several females and females can produce several eggs in a clutch) would be pure gravy AND the buyer would still have the original investment animal to continue producing combos and more of the original.

As an investment, it can pay off handsomely, if you're willing to risk it and you're serious about putting in the work. Hobbyist or professional, either way, you could make a name on a hot new morph which leads to a lot of future sales.

Otherwise, it's also a thrill of owning something that not everyone has. Sometimes the new morphs might suddenly throw something totally unexpected(think of yellowbellies, first it was the ivory... but then folks started crossing yellowbellies with other morphs and BOOM! Wow!) and then the morph will jump up in price and demand.

Sometimes a price is put on an animal BECAUSE the owner doesn't really want to sell it, but would if someone really was willing to put out a ton of money. But most times I think it's really because it's a investment in future combos to be produced. Think of bananas... and then the Banana GLOW! Or the Pastel Clown. Any of the really spectacular combos.