Re: how has the price of morphs changed over the years?
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Originally Posted by Leon
Hmmm ... smells like scam to me. The demand for albinos is very strong at the $2,000 - $2,500 price point ... anyone selling them for less AND hiding on reptimart should be examined very carefully IMO.
-adam
Re: how has the price of morphs changed over the years?
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Originally Posted by daniel1983
but the more people that get into this hobby and want to breed ball pythons...the demand for ball pythons will increase.
But demand exists at different levels .... there is a short list of people that will invest $35,000 on a single ball python and a huge list of people that will spend $1,000.
Once the number of buyers at a given price point is exhausted, the price will drop until it finds a new group of buyers.
It's simple economincs .... that's why the price of plasma televisions falls each year. :D
-adam
Re: how has the price of morphs changed over the years?
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Originally Posted by daniel1983
why should I spend $1000 now for a pastel...when I can get one for $600 a two years down the road.
Two reasons that I can think of for myself ....
1. Because you have the money to invest and you really love the way pastel ball pythons look. That is my primary motivation behind every ball python morph I invest in. If I see something I like (which seems to be everything) I want it "NOW", but I don't always have the money "NOW" to I end up having to wait.
2. Because that $1,000 pastel will produce many $600 babies in two years, but the $600 pastel in two years will only produce potentially $400 babies when it's sexually mature. The earlier you get in on a project, the better return you will see on your investment over the long term.
-adam
Re: how has the price of morphs changed over the years?
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Originally Posted by Adam_Wysocki
Hmmm ... smells like scam to me. The demand for albinos is very strong at the $2,000 - $2,500 price point ... anyone selling them for less AND hiding on reptimart should be examined very carefully IMO.
-adam
Well, at this point you can pick up a Lemon Pastel Male for $1000 -
I'd say prices are drasticly dropping -
The more people the Lemon Pastels or Albinos for sale -
The cheaper they'll be getting.
Re: how has the price of morphs changed over the years?
ha....i get the first reason .... that is exactly how i feel. I want them all but I dont have the money.
reason 2...I have not really looked at it that way. great point, the earlier the better. more money spent now means more money made down the road.
thanks adam.
Re: how has the price of morphs changed over the years?
where are you finding all of these cheap snakes? my motto...you pay for what you get so look out.
leon, of all of the people that have lemons and albinos, what would you say is the percentage that actually breed them? It certainly is not 100%. Probably not even 75%. And with albinos sales being up...you need 2 to 3 years to get your females up to size...so the price would not really even come down any until then.
I have seen alot of pastels go for sale on the classified in the past 2 months. You know why? people have breed these males to their females and are looking to get some money back. I definately see more pastel activity on the boards than any other base morph...BTW..I never see hypos for sale.
Re: how has the price of morphs changed over the years?
Even if they go down to not much more than a normal, I will still buy and breed them.. why? Because they are SO beautiful! It'd be great if I could make money from them still, but even if they just paid for themselves, that'd be great! A self-sustaining hobby. I think it's important to only breed what you personally love, I get the feeling that a lot of breeders buy morphs just because they bring a lot of money, not because they actually like them.
Re: how has the price of morphs changed over the years?
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Originally Posted by Shelby
Even if they go down to not much more than a normal, I will still buy and breed them.. why? Because they are SO beautiful! It'd be great if I could make money from them still, but even if they just paid for themselves, that'd be great! A self-sustaining hobby. I think it's important to only breed what you personally love, I get the feeling that a lot of breeders buy morphs just because they bring a lot of money, not because they actually like them.
:) great shelby. thats is the way I feel. :) I am just really looking to increase my collection. I figure breeding and selling is a way to get some extra money to pay my bp expenses and save up so I can afford something really nice. Kind of like spend all the money you make on more expensive bps. I am just trying to figure the best way to go about it all.
Re: how has the price of morphs changed over the years?
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Originally Posted by Leon
Well, at this point you can pick up a Lemon Pastel Male for $1000 -
I'd say prices are drasticly dropping -
From $6,500 in 1998 to $1,000 in 2005 isn't drastic in my book.
-adam
Re: how has the price of morphs changed over the years?
adam, thats great info....just what i was looking for...
You would not happen to have the prices for all the years in between would you? I was looking to do some analysis...maybe develop a model for the cost data..(ha...i am bored and I think it would be pretty cool to put all of that info about some of the morph prices on a nice graph :) ).
