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as a hobbyist i cant justify the prices of top tier animals but it dosent make me want them any less. If i was running a business and had the cash flow to afford a 10k animal i would.
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Re: What's the most you've ever spent or would spend on a single bp?
I spent $550 for my bumblebee ghi from Ken Macek. After doing a lot of research and studying my possible pairings, I'm pretty pleased with what this little guy can do. He's such a gorgeous Snake and so friendly too. I feel like 800 may be my limit, if it's a pretty good ghi combo. I was first in line for a ghi bel. But it ended up having pastel in it, do the guy bumped the price up to 1000. :/ so with this being dry season for work, I had to pass. I want a female ghi combo anyways....
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The most I've spent on a ball python is $175.00 plus shipping. I doubt I'd spend more because I don't have any plans to breed fancy morphs. The ones I have make nice pets. But I have spent a lot more than that on a gecko. :D
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Wow it's funny the thread started in 2007. Imagine how prices have come down on morphs some of us could had not afforded then. Wow I seen morphs I've only dreamed of price wise, become mine. :) And 750$ 850$ tops. But now days I see so much cool affordable stuff it's crazy.
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Personally if I were an established ball python breeder and I had dozens of adult mature females at the ready and I was sitting on a pile of cash I'd spend up to $150,000 for a unique ball python. If it were really a one of a kind snake and I could sell the babies for even $15,000 it would pay for itself and turn a profit in no time at all. The most I spent so far for one snake is about $1,200, but I've only been in business a few years so far.
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Re: What's the most you've ever spent or would spend on a single bp?
I don't ever think about spending thousands because I never plan to breed, I'm a beginner hobbyist right now. I honestly don't even see myself having more than maybe two, three snakes at the same time in the future! Haha, I like to devote my attention to a small amount of animals (like, VERY small amount) and bond with them more than having multiple and not being able to have a connection with them. No offense to those with multiple animals, I know you love them and wish the best for them, and I'm sure you're doing a great time of offering them everything that will make them happy, I'm just not good at handling that many critters at the same time and feeling great about it.
I mean, my only ball python as of now was only $210, with the $60 shipping included (snake itself was $150). I abosolutely adore him. It doesn't take fancy colors or big price tags to make me love an animal's individual beauty. So yeah, maybe $500 if I really really wanted a snake so bad lol.
But who knows! Maybe as time passes my views will change, I've found that once you step into reptiles you usually don't step back out, hehe.
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Re: What's the most you've ever spent or would spend on a single bp?
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I don't ever think about spending thousands because I never plan to breed, I'm a beginner hobbyist right now. I honestly don't even see myself having more than maybe two, three snakes at the same time in the future! Haha, I like to devote my attention to a small amount of animals (like, VERY small amount) and bond with them more than having multiple and not being able to have a connection with them. No offense to those with multiple animals, I know you love them and wish the best for them, and I'm sure you're doing a great time of offering them everything that will make them happy, I'm just not good at handling that many critters at the same time and feeling great about it.
I mean, my only ball python as of now was only $210, with the $60 shipping included (snake itself was $150). I abosolutely adore him. It doesn't take fancy colors or big price tags to make me love an animal's individual beauty. So yeah, maybe $500 if I really really wanted a snake so bad lol.
But who knows! Maybe as time passes my views will change, I've found that once you step into reptiles you usually don't step back out, hehe.
I agree 150%
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Re: What's the most you've ever spent or would spend on a single bp?
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I agree 150%
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Hehe, I felt like I needed to reply but I don't know what to say lol. Think of the noodles.... Thiiinnkk of the noodlesss
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Personally I'm not a big ball python fan. Getting one is not out the question, but I wouldn't spend a lot - probably $250 or less, and it would really have to catch my eye to jump ahead of the other species I'm more interested in.
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I only have the one that I just got less than a week ago, but he was $250 (banana). Think the most I'd ever spend is $500 if I REALLY wanted to get something fancy, like a highway/freeway. But honestly if there's a second snake in my future I think I'd go with a colubrid, likely a corn, before another BP.
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I don't care about morphs much so I probably wouldn't spend more than 2-300. I've never spent more than 150 though. Most of the time the snakes I've owned as pets have kinda fallen into my lap. Usually someone who knows me hears about someone who needs to rehome a snake and gives out my contact info. Depending on what the snake needs/temperment/etc. I usually rehab and rehome them. However this year we finally own our home and our son is old enough that my husband said it was okay for me to start owning snakes again as pets and not just in my snake room. Spoiler: I may need a second snake room soon just for the pet ones. A breeder friend of mine recently offered me a BEL girl for free and I'm probably gonna take her. I may not care about morphs but she is so damn sweet.
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Paid $150 for my Banana boy but I'd probably go up to $1000 for the right BP. It is crazy to see how I can pay $150 for something now that was over $10k less than a decade ago which makes me cautious about spending big money on something that I may not truly love or that would really be "worth it" if that makes sense.
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Re: What's the most you've ever spent or would spend on a single bp?
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EDIT: With that said, I'd like to get to the point where I can spend 10-15K on a snake and not bat an eyelash. :)
Wouldn't we all? :D
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$500 maybe?
Around $200 seems to be where single gene morphs and some combos become more available. That's not a bad starting point.
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I want to say the most I've spent so far on a single BP is $650. Easily could see myself spending $3-5k for the right investment animal if I had the money not only for that snake, but the right stuff to go with it. I don't think I'd spend more than that because of how crazy fast the price tends to depreciate for that tier, but if the market behavior changes, maybe! I'd easily spend a lot more on certain other species with more stable price points.
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Re: What's the most you've ever spent or would spend on a single bp?
the BP I'm getting is 50 bucks because it's a baby and just a normal morph and they have dozens, I think the MOST that I would ever spend is like 500 to 750. but that's only my perspective/answer for now. might change my mind in the future.
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Most I have spent is $900!
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I just spent £1250 which is $1742 USD at today’s rate
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Re: What's the most you've ever spent or would spend on a single bp?
I have yet to get my first bp but will DEFINITELY not go over $500 for the first one. I'm soon-to-be fresh out of college and the money I'll be making over the next several years (Google "grad student stipend" if you want to get an idea) isn't super conducive to expensive pets. I do have savings but don't want to blow too much of it on a single animal.
In the future, if it turns out I'm decently interested in the hobby and have the money, I could MAYBE see myself going up to $2k if there was a snake I really liked in that price range (but I'd probably feel more comfortable under $1k even then, so that's what I put as my vote on this poll). Anything more than that would feel overkill unless I became a serious breeder or collector, which is something I doubt will happen anytime soon. All I want for now is a cute lil noodle to keep me company, so the expensive morphs (beautiful though they may be) are kind of out of the question.
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The most i spent was was £550 (Google says that's $770) on a super banana, That's only because I cant be dealing with the hassle of a male only maker.
Other than that My limit would be half of that for something special.
There are a good few I want that cost more, but I would rather wait until the price comes down, as is always the case eventually with newer morph combos.
That's of course unless I win the lottery.:please:
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