Worth it?

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Originally Posted by tomfromtheshade

This is the problem with the hobby. People are cutting each other's throats at every opportunity. This is why an albino burm is $75 at a reptile show. You are buying a snake that will be 16+' long and over 100 pounds and you don't even have to drop a Benjamin to get it?

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The problem isn't with selling them so cheap, the problem is, because they are so cheap, people who shouldn't buy them are buying them....
I sell regular Burms for more than Albinos, there are way to many albinos now, you hardly ever see a normal anymore..

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Originally Posted by tomfromtheshade

The guy who is selling medium rats for $0.75 is MAYBE breaking even on costs and that is ONLY if he doesn't count labor costs, in which case he is losing money every time. People who are in this hobby to lose money make me laugh.

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1000 small rats a month at .75 will make you money, but not much, kind of a mute point...
I don't know what you sell for, but I'm lucky if I get $1.09 for a small anymore. Any higher than that, and it's the customer cutting throats, not the breeder... He goes somewhere else...

Hey there. I live in SF too. Where do you buy your wholesale live rats? I've been buying live mice every week and it's costing way too much...=(

Thanks!
Jimmi

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Originally Posted by lucylove

yall are paying too much. I pay only 2.25 in the San Francisco Bay Area and even cheaper fr frozen. There is also a guy who sales wholesale live rats for 1.50.

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If your ball will take F/T it may be worth it to breed your own. You have to consider the cost of bedding and food for the rats also.

Breeding is a pain to begin with, but at least you get the sizes that you need. Many times I go into a store and I either have to go too big or too small. Rarely do I get the right size.

Tom must be doing something right because I live close by and contacted him on many occasions and he has none available to sell :gj: