Re: albino ball prices in few years
If you look at the really inexpensive Ball morphs, they all have one thing in common, they are Co Doms. The YB, the Pastel, two morphs that anyone not living in a cardboard box can afford. I think it is great, to have a few affordable morphs, but I do not think the Albino will be in that catagory in the next few years, although I do think they will be under $1K this year. That being said, if a stunning Albino cross comes out, the price might surprise some of us and stablize. Also, supply, if people are doing crosses with their Homozygous Albinos, unlike Pastel and YB crosses, there may be fewer for sale certain years. Me, I will use my female Albinos for crosses, and male Albino and Het females for Albinos.
Dave
Re: albino ball prices in few years
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Originally Posted by EmberBall
although I do think they will be under $1K this year.
Dave
Aren't they already under 1K??? I would not be at all surprised to see $500 males in Daytona.
Re: albino ball prices in few years
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Originally Posted by pfan151
Aren't they already under 1K??? I would not be at all suprised to see $500 males in Daytona.
No you can get an albino for around 1200 to 1500.
Re: albino ball prices in few years
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Originally Posted by Freakie_frog
No you can get an albino for around 1200 to 1500.
last year yes....i've seen them for $900.
Re: albino ball prices in few years
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Originally Posted by pfan151
Aren't they already under 1K??? I would not be at all surprised to see $500 males in Daytona.
If you shop around. I saw one on KS a few weeks ago for $800 for a hatchling male. I still expect them to stay over $1k this year
Re: albino ball prices in few years
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Originally Posted by nathanledet
last year yes....i've seen them for $900.
Yea I mean its all in where you look. I mean you can find them on KS for way cheep. But from most breeders I think you'll see them hang around the 1000.00 mark.. Or at least I hope so.
Re: albino ball prices in few years
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Originally Posted by Freakie_frog
Yea I mean its all in where you look. I mean you can find them on KS for way cheep. But from most breeders I think you'll see them hang around the 1000.00 mark.. Or at least I hope so.
You can find a lot of CRAP on KS. That site is a hole...
Re: albino ball prices in few years
When you've got a market full of flippers undercutting each other back and forth to make sales (like in the ball market), the prices seem to go down pretty fast. Does that mean anyone producing albinos right now have to sell theirs for what those d-bags sell theirs for? Of course not!
Like anything else in life, you get what you pay for. Albino balls are rare snakes that are worth far more than what their market price is now. I do, however, think that after being around for 10+ years and still priced above $1000 is a pretty good run, especially with the way the ball market is today.
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Originally Posted by jglass38
You can find a lot of CRAP on KS. That site is a hole...
Which is why people shouldn't base their pricing on KS. If we did that the market would be in the crapper in two seasons
Re: albino ball prices in few years
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Originally Posted by Freakie_frog
Which is why people shouldn't base their pricing on KS. If we did that the market would be in the crapper in two seasons
I say base it on ANYTHING but KS.
