Morph Sales

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Originally Posted by Adam_Wysocki

Until the invoice from your rat guy shows up. :rofl:

-adam

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Or in this case, the invoice from 10 tons of rodent food. :bolt: :eyepoppin

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Originally Posted by KLG

Or in this case, the invoice from 10 tons of rodent food. :bolt: :eyepoppin

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I need to go pick up 2 tons next week :(

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Originally Posted by KLG

Or in this case, the invoice from 10 tons of rodent food. :bolt: :eyepoppin

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Why do I get the feeling you're not exaggerating? :O

haha. I was wondering because i notice that a lot of people get hets, probably because they are more affordable. It is the reason i didn't get a pied pair, i wanted to have some hets too.

The big question that I have as far as breeding sales is...

What percentage of buyers are buying just to have a cool looking and rare snake, and what percentage are people buying morphs to breed and start their own projects/sales

I bought hets because I could not afford an albino

I don't think that kind of market research has been done, so there really isn't an answer out there besides what we can pull out of our....

However, I would speculate that the vast majority of people investing in morphs over say, $1000, are making just that - an investment - to make a return in breeding the animal. I'll further speculate that as prices for certain morphs drop below the $1000 mark, less and less buyers will be totally concerned with breeding it, and acquire the animal for the sake of owning it.

I'm sure others could argue different numbers, but I think that's the overall jist of things.

we picked up a pair of het pieds from adam cause we want a pied for ourselves ;) we also picked up a pair of pastels (VPI and a lemon) cause we wanna make some supers and then breed them back to the pieds... - cause we want a pastel pied.

we also want a spider... but that'll be farther down the road. gonna enjoy and grow up these little ones first ;)

so... we are breeding to get what WE want... and we'll sell or trade off the rest but i'm not worried about it... it's far in the future for us. (and up here in canada... not nearly as many breeders... )

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Originally Posted by recycling goddess

and up here in canada... not nearly as many breeders

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Haha, dont be so sure about that Aleesha, I could probably list off 100 BP breeders in Canada in 4 minutes LOL, most of whom you would'nt have heard of... hell, I could list off at least 50 in B.C. alone ;).....and also, the population is nowhere near that of the U.S., so in the end, the Canadian market is just as over saturated as the U.S., if not moreso.......

Edit: which is why alot of morphs are actually cheaper in Canada now than they are in the states, because there simply arent as many buyers for the animals, and competitive pricing gets out of hand.... Example: I havent checked U.S. prices in awhile, but I havent seen any Albino's selling for $700usd...you can easily get one in Canada for that price, in fact, the absolute highest priced Albino in Canada, is $1310usd....

To the un-named person who left me negative feedback and anyone else....I shouldve have added that all the prices I was rambling about were publically offered prices, and I was only comparing them to publicly offered prices. I did not even delve into backdoor or insider prices, because theres a reason theyre called that ;) and to be honest alot of people here would douse there drawers if they knew what some people were actually paying for morphs out the back ;) and also, to suggest that I gauge the BP market by the prices on kingsnake was actually rather insulting to me ;)