How Low?

Give the guy a call the way I understood it he was not reraising the price.

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Originally Posted by Freakie_frog

Give the guy a call the way I understood it he was not reraising the price.

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Boycott him and those who buy/resell at that price?

Thats the best thing. I agree hat this move is way weird right before Daytona. This is a 100% homo for Jimmy move on his part.

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Originally Posted by shhhli

WHY is this the only 'market' that makes people feel like screwing others work and then eventually themselves over? Its like everyone who at anyother business would fail jumped on the BP bandwagon.

rant rant.

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It's a highly competative business, for obvious reasons.... you have a huge variety of morphs and what's more is there will be more and more morphs. Ranging from high dollar to affordable morphs for most of us. The turn over is at this point endless.

This market also appeals to a lot of people because these animals don't get huge, are not born tiny and it's hard to find an aggressive ball python. They appeal to all levels of those interested in reptiles. So from a sales point of view, they are a great investment. Not to mention, they look very appealing to the eye seeing the different color morphs.

So when someone comes along and "Dumps" a few certain morphs on a market, it can crash that area of the market if the person doing it is a NAME!

Leaving all those that are working in that area in an almost bankrupt like position. Yes, it is irrisponsible and no, spiders and mojaves are not rare, but they don't deserve to be dumped for less then half their value either!

It might be wise to stay out of the blast zone of Table 735 in Daytona...

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Originally Posted by shhhli

Boycott him and those who buy/resell at that price?

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The idea is right, but the average person that doesn't have thousands of dollars to float around freely can't and won't pass up a deal like what was being dumped out!

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Originally Posted by SnakeySnakeSnake

3 BEL males, breed them to 20 females, big females that produce 10 eggs each , you are looking at 600 mojaves :)


Not that they went this overboard, but you can see the issue.. however I think it is harsh of MKR to screw with everyone this way, but it is their perrogative... when you consider tax they are getting $400ish after taxes per mojave?

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If you have 20 females that produce 10 eggs each how do you get 600 babies? Maybe my calculator is broke. ;)

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Originally Posted by Sputnik

Yes, it is irrisponsible and no, spiders and mojaves are not rare, but they don't deserve to be dumped for less then half their value either!

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I totaly agree. 100%

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Originally Posted by Sputnik

The idea is right, but the average person that doesn't have thousands of dollars to float around freely can't and won't pass up a deal like what was being dumped out!

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Yep, like it or not they just lowered the benchmark for those snakes. Even people are angry at MK for dropping the prices will find it hard to pay even $5K for a Lesser now.

MKR's new motto should be:

"Buy for less from us and we will undercut your sales next year"

Those mojaves were listed at $800 each....any others listed are at least $1500. They could have listed them at $1400 each and still sold out. Bad business IMO. They would have almost doubled their income on those snakes easily and kept the price outlook high.....instead they undercut all their previous customers and everyone else that was selling them for $1500. Bad business.

Don't doubt that they won't do it with recessives later this year or next year. Like they would say that they are going to drop prices below market again and risk hurting sales on the higher priced animals now....ha.

MKR could not pay me to buy a snake from them. All the supply demand garbage and 'giving it back to the customers' is not going to fly with me and is just a lame excuse IMHO.

Also, there is much better ball python morph stock available out there than MKR's....take their clown breeding stock for example....you pay for what you get...