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Well said,sometimes you have to look a little deeper as to what motivates someone to suddenly deciede to reduce there prices. were they overpriced to begin with?
Was it because they could not move the overpriced crosses that very few wanted? or maybe just trying to draw attention to their selfs to get a larger piece of the pie.

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I read this thread and just thought it seemed strange at first. Half price on morphs for those under a certain income..WTF? What's next, buy one get one free Albinos? Get real, if you want to sell your snakes for $500, sell them for $500!

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I think its all right there. They just want to get some attention, and sell at low prices so they can sell out their inventory. I think some people are so worried about the market going down, they start doing things like this to give themselves an advantage.

Let me start off with this is kind of scary.
Every post I see that says "thinking about breeding what do I need?" drives me over the edge. If you don't even know what you need you have no business breeding. I have spent almost 2 years reading, reading, and reading about breeding ball pythons and leopard geckos and I am not even sure if its something I even want to do.

Now people who have NO business breeding any animals, who couldn't care less about the animals themselves, and only a profit which they probably wont make much of when they realize ALL the costs of breeding. Will have easy access to these animals. Then whats going to happen when they don't have the money to support them and get the "bright" idea to release them into the wild?

There are reasons things cost a great amount $$$$$.
Sorry just had to get this off my chest.

This one is hilariou's!!!!! Alright guy's I'm going to sell you a snake that probably cost 100 buck's a month to feed later on in it's life . Oh yeah I'll take it back whenever you want. LOL I agree with Vaughn if you aren't doing well the last thing you need is an extra big mouth to feed.

Wait for the consequences :mad: not only for the market

People that get their snake for 50% less will start releasing them in the wild when they won't be able to keep up with the cost of feeding an adult snake a 60 pounds pig

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Originally Posted by High End Herps Inc

Here's one of our big girls. She's over 20 feet and over 225 pounds. She eats 60 pound pigs like many of our giants.

Enjoy! ;)

http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o...6Batch1008.jpg

David Beauchemin
High End Herps Inc
http://www.HighEndHerps.com/
(318)335-3673

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woah that is huge, what is that?? it looks like it about to explode

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Originally Posted by Kizerk

woah that is huge, what is that?? it looks like it about to explode

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Albino Burm, maybe?

--Kim

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Originally Posted by AzureN1ght

Albino Burm, maybe?

--Kim

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Not sure but it was posted on this forum by the person at the origin of the "Half price snake for low income"

my main concern is them getting back hundreds of huge burms... where will they put them all?

odd...

It scares me how many inexperienced snake keepers are going to end up with huge constrictors they have no business owning.

Truer words were NEVER spoken: "You get what you pay for."
Like others said, this is a business based HUGELY on trust and rapport with your seller. I myself would be leary of buying from some person who has no reputation; what if they take my money and run? Now, buying from someone with a stellar rep on the BOI, as well as knowing and talking to that person on a forum.. and seeing their healthy snakes and other customers' joy at buying from them, this is what will strongly influence my personal buying into these snakes. So.. let's say some low-income people get a deal on a snake, half-price.. they have aspirations of breeding it to make money later? lol.. when the same person who sold them the snake cheap, is taking their business, because the others who would buy herps from non-reputable sources (such as a new breeder) are buying from the "charitable" lowballer, and the costomers with any real money are investing in rarer morphs and not the trickled-down bargains.. who will make money then?
As for retics/burms.. personally, I hate seeing people even breeding these snakes large-scale. Not to put anyone down who does, but I think there are enough of them on this earth, that need rescuing and are just too huge and potentially life-threatening, that there don't need to be more bred. It is not like a BP, that can hurt your thumb a little.. these can choke and kill people. Surplus BPs can be sold to relatively inexperienced starter-herpers when they are not needed for breeding or are the byproduct of morph breeding.. how about doing that with retics?