How much did you pay for your albino ball python?

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Originally Posted by stormwulf133

i got this gal from mark miles for right around 300 iirc. Too good a deal to pass up. Yes i don't normally go for "cheap" animals. But i am poor, and have always wanted an albino, the price was right, and i liked the look of her. Plus i have a lot of mark's corns and he has always been good to me. Sometimes a recession is a good thing, that and a sale on everything in his store is the only reason i got her that cheap.

https://ball-pythons.net/gallery/fil...ino_161644.jpg

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hot!

I figured I would add in a pic of my Albino boy. He has been locking already this past week. :)

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y21...ons/albino.jpg

I myself have not purchased an Albino yet, but early last spring 08', a breeder i know sold their 4 Albino babies for $750.00 each. They looked pretty good too. Not what you would call extremely high contrast, but not dull & faded either. They were nice looking snakes. I did hold one in my hands but didn't have enough money to buy one or i would have. So i instead went with the proven breeder pastel they offered me for $200.00. Which turned out to be a good deal since he's not darkened at all since i purchased him over a year ago.

got an 08 male for 500 for my sister. hes really nice looking too =]

Here goes my male that I got from Mark Goodson in August of 07. I paid $600 for him back then (local pickup). He's had some up for sale recently. I highly recommend him! :gj:

https://ball-pythons.net/gallery/fil...albinoball.jpg

He's about 1000 grams now. Long term plans for him are to make Black Pastel Albinos and Albino Pieds!

$400 is rock bottom ,Ill keep mine if I can't get that,should have some hatching in 2 weeks.but Ill be asking $475 for males $500 for females.

i bought a 08 female for 380

450$ was the cheapest I could get him.

500. From a big breeder, but that was awhile ago. At that same show i saw smaller breeders sell HC's for 450. You'll find a nice one at a show for your price range, trust me. Albinos are timeless and well worth it to have something that pops with such color.

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Originally Posted by rabernet

I really dis-like these threads. I think it de-values the worth of an animal.

And yes you can get "cheap" animals of any morph, but at the end of the day - are you getting an animal just for the sake of getting one (insert morph here), or because that particular animal blew you away?

As an example - I have seen enchi's pretty disgustingly low priced at a semi-local show to me - where I had to stand there and study the animal, truly study it, to determine that it wasn't just a nice banded normal (or a truly ugly enchi). I knew I wanted to add an enchi to my collection. But not just the first "great deal" to come along. I waited and waited, and I think that my patience (and willingness to pay more for her) really paid off:

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e9...i/IMG_5231.jpg

Same thing with albinos. Sure - you can find "cheap" (and I hate that word as well - to me, it "cheapens" the animal) albinos if you look for them. But if you want one that looks like THIS (this is Freakie Frog's animal, btw - who I would buy off him in a heartbeat, if he were selling.):

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e9...DSC_0023-1.jpg

then you're going to pay a little more.

Like Sean Bradley has said on more than one occasion - "Examine the snake - not the deal"

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yeah but some people dont have enough money at this time of crisis...so i just want to save some money im not just going to give it away just like that when i can find a better looking one for a cheaper price somewhere else...