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Curious to see how this will go. I do like the idea of a feedback system that's directly tied to a person's ads.

Pretty cool site, more breeders are posting animals for sale so it looks like it has potential.

I hate the fact that im broke

Seems like a good idea.

Hopefully this works and doesnt have a negative effect and bring market prices crashing down. Time will tell if it really is worth it or not.

i really dont think this will crash the prices.

when someone hatched a bunch of hatchlings, and its hard to make out the prices, and he needs to move them fast. that person would check what the big breeders charge, then ask for less, attempt to advertise, an noone buys. but they need to be moved and the income needs to come in and.... thats how you get the serious undercutting. a tiny little facebook auction too few people know about, and the snakes go for cheap. or maybe the person gets 3 feet of table space from someone at some reptile show, pays for it, and goes there with the goal of moving all of them and not taking anything home. its these emergency or panic sales that mess things up.


Then look at WHY Mike Wilbanks set it up. He says prices are so hard to figure out, he sells stuff while others sell it much cheaper, and then he gets complaints and dissatisfied customers. He set it up to figure out the prices, and because Facebook is not for auctions, he built this. facebook will not deal with (or support) auctions, and ebay will not deal with (or support) living things.

The auctions may help to establish more stability in pricing. For big, professional breeders, it would make most sense to use it the following way: sell around 10% of your stuff at these auctions. For advertisement, to reach new customers, to figure out current market prices, and to move stuff that would otherwise be not so easy to move. Of course, big professional breeders will still sell most using their own structures that are already in place. But once the system works, i see how NERD and BHB would have regular auctions just to put their name out there some more, and for stuff where they dont know how much to charge.

back to the small breeder who got to move stuff, emergency sale: its great to have such a platform for that.

so, everything considered, i think the prices will be MORE stable if we have something like that.

GunBroker.com, an auction site for guns, has not caused the price of firearms to crash.

The only think that has stopped me from bidding on a couple animals is shipping.
A couple of the sellers are trying to make money on shipping too.
If they had the normal $50 I would bid, I don't think fedex raised their rates but I am not willing to bid on inflated rates.

I guess, "my bad". The seller is also asking higher shipping on his site too.

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Originally Posted by PitOnTheProwl

The only think that has stopped me from bidding on a couple animals is shipping.
A couple of the sellers are trying to make money on shipping too.
If they had the normal $50 I would bid, I don't think fedex raised their rates but I am not willing to bid on inflated rates.

I guess, "my bad". The seller is also asking higher shipping on his site too.

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I seen that on the spider het pied they want 60 for shipping .. I think it varies tho where the snake comes from some people just charge a flat of 50 sometimes its upder 50 to ship and sometimes its over they just take the loss maybe .. or maybe they got a thing worked out wirh the company where all they pay is 50 to ship cause there always shipping

I charge flat rate $50 for shipping most of the time because that is easier than getting quotes (and because people complain if you charge more), but I typically lose at least $15 on each shipment (not factoring in the box, packing, drive to FedEx, etc). My cost for shipping ranges between $60-$90 for the most part. That is just what I pay for the shipping itself, not the supplies and trip to FedEx. People who charge less are just eating more of the cost (or in the case of someone who does a ton of volume, they are getting a better rate and eating some of the cost). I really don't think $60 is "inflated."