What's the Best Deal/Steal You've Gotten?

I was actually thinking of posting a thread like this last night before I fell asleep. Good call, Chris! :gj:

About a month ago we scored this one locally:

'09 female mojave 1,200g
'09 male lesser
'09 male pastel (big boy and an excellent example of the morph)
3-50qt or so tubs with custom locking lids, pre-wired heat tape and BAH-1000 thermostat
40ish frozen feeder rats

$500

A few days after:

3 tub 41qt melamine rack for $35. I was able to convert it to 2-41qt, 1-28qt and 1-12qt.

Quite a while back we rescued:

'09 male spider
'09 female normal (700g)
2 harlequin crested geckos
'09 female hypo red tail
male red tail (which unfortunately had to be put down)
adult blue tongue skink (I regret getting rid of this guy, he was really neat!)
1-55 gallon, 1-40 gallon, 1-30 gallon, 2-20L, a bunch of hides and decorations
All the screen lids for the tanks
A bunch of feeders

Free.

Edit: Forgot one. Not the best deal ever, but she is an exceptional pinstripe if you ask me.

'11 female pinstripe (400g) $180

1) Free Super Pastel male
2) Free proven het. albino female

I got my first normal girl from work for free. Bought an adult male spider for $90 and got a male juvi blood python the owner couldnt get to eat. (he ate for me as soon as i got him home) sold both for $125 each. I'll take that deal number 5!

1 32 tub baby snake/gecko rack with heat and tubs
1 10 tub adult ball python rack with heat and tubs
14 various corn snakes
2 adult normal ball pythons

^Traded for a young spider BP that I had just bought for $100

Also recently picked up an awesome, 1900 gram, NERD line male pastel for $50.

My best deal was on a male DH Lavender Snow along with a pair of 2 year old 50% PH Lavender Albino females for $225. Both females have been bred to the male and are going to lay this year. :please:

Man MasonC2K... If you find anymore deals that you can't take just let me know, I am right around the corner and would gladly drive up.

My best deal (which wasn't really a deal) was a 3 tub adult 41qt AP rack, Herpstat 1, 300g Spider female, 700g OG male, and 700g OG female for $700.

Hands down my Fire Mojave female.

The seller ran a local reptile store and doesn't really use the internet. He's not computer literate. He basically added the prices of the two morphs together so I promptly drove 3 hours each way to buy her.

Regards,

B

We have found a couple pretty good deals.
1. Pinstripe Female 800 grams for $200
Was dehydrated when we got her and after she soaked for the first 2 weeks we had her and had 1 meal was up to 1050 grams. We got her in August of 2011 and she was up to 1600 grams and ready to breed by December.

2. Mojave Female 700 grams
Pastel Female 200 grams
7 high rat rack with about 70 rats; Plus a 1-4 breeding group of ASF's
and we ended up selling most of the rats to a local store for $150
Our Coca-Cola double sliding door Incubator that will hold about 25 clutches.
All for $1000

At a show and got

1.2 100% Het Genetic Stripes BP (male unrelated)
1.0 ?? Spider (very odd spider that breeders' hired help messed up and couldn't remember what bin he came out of when all was said and done)
$200

Proving out the spider last week of May ...stay tuned for baby pictures!!!

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Originally Posted by DemmBalls

My best deal was on a male DH Lavender Snow along with a pair of 2 year old 50% PH Lavender Albino females for $225. Both females have been bred to the male and are going to lay this year. :please:

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Would love to find a male for that! My double het female needs a boyfriend.

Had someone give me two adult spider females once.

Other than that, I typically don't get good deals, or even discounts.