Is this worth it?

I agree with Ed's post. You have nice looking animals from what little I've seen. Get a few meals in them, then get the word out there. Even in this economy, the animals you are breeding are selling at market prices. There's no need to slash prices if you have quality animals, and have the means to possibly house them for an extra few weeks. Since you are new to the game, I'll fill you in on some advice that is constantly being given in the reptile community. "If the price is low, the seller is usually either a scammer, or the animals are inferior. Decent animals are selling at X price, so unless there is something wrong here, why would the breeder want rip himself off by getting rid of them for such a low price?".

Edit: Basically, don't sell yourself short. Other than messing with the market, it looks suspicious. :)

point well taken!

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Originally Posted by simplechamp

No one seems to ever scrutinize the buyer in the same way they do the seller. The buyer is responsible for researching the item they wish to purchase, and asking questions about the item before they buy it. So many people go out and buy things without doing research, and then, when they find out certain things they didn't bother to ask about, they get mad and blame the seller for not telling them. I'll say it again: the buyer is just as responsible as the seller.

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Originally Posted by AaronP

Because a lot of people have that "The customer is always right" BS stuck in their head. :rolleyes:

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It's on the customer to do research, but that doesn't change the fact that there are a lot of uninformed new customers out there that don't know that in the reptile industry, ordering a snake from a reptile forum is different then ordering an iPod off Amazon, and that there are more risks than someone new might expect. If a kid buys his first snake on a popular classified and gets ripped off, that doesn't make him a scumbag, just an uninformered shopper. It does however make the seller a scumbag.

This is a little off topic, and I'm not calling the seller from this specific thread a scumbad here.

yeah I definitely see that side of it too, and do feel bad about people who have their heart in the right place and just make beginner mistakes, because we've all been/still are there.

But there are also the people who impulse buy animals without doing any research. The people who got interested 15 minutes ago and decide to buy an animal and all the (wrong) equipment in one shot, without even finding out how long the thing lives or how big it gets. The parents at reptile shows who buy their kid 10 different animals just to get them to stop begging.

Those are the people who get my goat, because they are the ones who come back a week later saying "You sold me a sick animal!" or "You ripped me off!" and it's like: of course the animal is doing poorly, you didn't bother to research how to care for it properly, or your kid lost interest within a week and you don't have the time or willpower to care for them properly. Or you didn't bother to shop around for different prices.

Wow, that was my longest, most off-topic rant ever... sorry bout that

Anyway, you guys get the point.