anyone see the nerd interview?

I just watched rapheal martinez's interview with kevin from nerd. awsome interview. check it out if you havent already! Theres 2 parts:D

http://maballs.net/www.maballs.net/YouTube_Videos.html

Here's part one
http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...hlight=maballs

Here's part 2
http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...hlight=maballs

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Originally Posted by Royal Morphz

Here's part one
http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...hlight=maballs

Here's part 2
http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...hlight=maballs

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coolness! thanks, thats much easier:oops:

i remember what it was like to see my first morph. Everyone fell in love with the pieds and so did I. People should be able to see whats out there. And these big shows with big breeders have the arsenal to blow people away!

My first bp morph was a spider and its 100 percent true that people need to stop selling snakes for so cheap. We need to recover the market or else it will be impossible to make money. Plus all these morphs are amazing. Its not right for people to be able to go out and disgrace a designer that someone worked at making for 10 years. Pastel yellowbellys should go for way more then they are now! Sorry to say but it shouldnt be that accessible for some people. You should have to work for it!

heck I bought a lemon pastel from nerd and as far as im conserned its my nicest regular pastel I have. Its the difference between the people that selective breed and the people that dont. I spent a little more on her but in the long run im sure it will pay off.

knowing what I have learned in the short while of really getting involved with genetics and even just on this site in the short while i have been on it, has helped me realize truely where I want to be. Everyone diserves everything comming to them. Good or bad. And there is know way to fully judge someone just based on a split second of something going in a direction you didnt want it to. But I truely believe that some people can take the knowledge and turn it into gold, and some can never learn anything and fail in every aspect of life. The second kind of person is the one who shouldnt be able to own high end snakes or for that matter high end anything. They dont deserve it.

really enjoyed the interview and hope that Kevin will continue to do show's and vendors and promoters of shows will consider the means in which vendors attribute so much to be there.

lance

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really enjoyed the interview and hope that Kevin will continue to do show's and vendors and promoters of shows will consider the means in which vendors attribute so much to be there.

lance

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yea me to. I understand where he comes from when he says its a risk getting to the show, but we need to be able to drool all over the display!:)

Another great interview. really like how he says to work within your collection. Thats what I do, and when I add to the collection I add what will work into it.

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My first bp morph was a spider and its 100 percent true that people need to stop selling snakes for so cheap. We need to recover the market or else it will be impossible to make money. Plus all these morphs are amazing. Its not right for people to be able to go out and disgrace a designer that someone worked at making for 10 years. Pastel yellowbellys should go for way more then they are now! Sorry to say but it shouldnt be that accessible for some people. You should have to work for it!

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If everything other than a normal cost $25,000, you would only have about 100 people in the country who would own morphs. The rest either wouldn't have the money to buy them, or wouldn't consider it ever worth that amount of money.

Also, the only way to "recover" the market is for people to stop breeding snakes, and since a lot of people do this as a hobby and not a business, you'll never see that.

I really don't see why more people having access to morphs is a bad thing.

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If everything other than a normal cost $25,000, you would only have about 100 people in the country who would own morphs. The rest either wouldn't have the money to buy them, or wouldn't consider it ever worth that amount of money.

Also, the only way to "recover" the market is for people to stop breeding snakes, and since a lot of people do this as a hobby and not a business, you'll never see that.

I really don't see why more people having access to morphs is a bad thing.

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yea I hear ya. I feel however that if more people owned snakes then the values would go up. Supply in demand. Some snakes could afford to be a little more in price. I dont mean 25,000$$. Im talking a few hundred over what it is now. Like pastels. People sell pastels for 50 dollars sometimes! Thats a shame!

Zbyers7, welcome to the pyramid scheme known as 'trying to make money with ball pythons'.

It's huge and convoluted and mildly difficult to explain, but the TRUTH of the matter is that ball python morphs are severely OVER-priced to their true value.

There is nothing any one person can do to increase prices other than 1) reduce supply (STOP BREEDING) or 2) spend more money (get a high-paying job and spend ALL your money on snakes. big breeders rely on people who fall into #2 to support this entire hobby).

In addition, some big-name guys tend to think they are capable of producing numerous top-dollar animals AND keep prices high at the same time. These two goals are unfortunately contradictory. The best they can hope to do is artificially inflate prices temporarily, and set the whole system up for a dramatic price crash in the future. We've seen it in the past, we will see more of it to come.

Since practically all ball pythons selling TODAY for over $250 are seen as 'investments' you want to make money on, there are too many people expecting to make a profit with too few people pumping cash into the hobby without a desire to profit.

All that money you hope to make on high-end morphs has to come from somewhere, and since ball pythons don't crap dollar bills, that means that someone has to make negative cash when spending on reptiles.



I'm betting fewer and fewer people are going to be happy making negative cash on animals seen as 'investment' animals. Prices are going to crash.

Don't think of it as a bad thing. Just think of it as the universe balancing itself out.

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yea I hear ya. I feel however that if more people owned snakes then the values would go up. Supply in demand. Some snakes could afford to be a little more in price. I dont mean 25,000$$. Im talking a few hundred over what it is now. Like pastels. People sell pastels for 50 dollars sometimes! Thats a shame!

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You're correct, if more people wanted to buy snakes, prices would go up. But at the same time, if prices went up, less people would want snakes. Supply and demand works both ways.

Wow, you all have some good comments on this subject. I see that the industry, like all others have there ups and downs. I hope we dont see the crash anytime soon, but everything has to eventualy to balance itself out. Such is business economics. I guess all we can do is keep being supportive and loving are hobby. When it does crash then it will come back like everything. Hopefully the time in between is short.

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My first bp morph was a spider and its 100 percent true that people need to stop selling snakes for so cheap. We need to recover the market or else it will be impossible to make money. Plus all these morphs are amazing. Its not right for people to be able to go out and disgrace a designer that someone worked at making for 10 years. Pastel yellowbellys should go for way more then they are now! Sorry to say but it shouldnt be that accessible for some people. You should have to work for it!

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I understand what your saying, but thats just buissness its your job to make a product better than then the rest thats why they have to keep maken new morphs. No body should exclusive rights to a wild animal, its all about trying to be better than the rest and if your not better then the rest then you set your prices to such, if i make a bubble bee i put the work into it myself and should price it how i want. When the ps3 first came out it was like 600 dollers and it dident sell much while the xbox offered almost the same thing for much less and ps3 flunked in sales its all about price compared to compettion and, thats what america is built on.

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I understand what your saying, but thats just buissness its your job to make a product better than then the rest thats why they have to keep maken new morphs. No body should exclusive rights to a wild animal, its all about trying to be better than the rest and if your not better then the rest then you set your prices to such, if i make a bubble bee i put the work into it myself and should price it how i want. When the ps3 first came out it was like 600 dollers and it dident sell much while the xbox offered almost the same thing for much less and ps3 flunked in sales its all about price compared to compettion and, thats what america is built on.

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well said. Very true. I just would like to see things improve. I really believe thow that if more people got into bp's then the market would increase in value. I might start life insurance for reptiles when it does. You think I can make good money on that??? LMAO

Here's part 3 :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUGDBMDsKuM

Hey man you do an awesome job with those interviews! NERD has some amazing creatures and I am completely blown away everytime I get the chance to visit, which should be more often cause I live in the town next door, but still lol

Awesome work!

On a side note, I never had a clue where Athol is, but my new delivery route I get the pleasure of stopping there a few times a week. Looks like a pretty nice area

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Originally Posted by MAballs

Here's part 3 :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUGDBMDsKuM

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thanks RM. good lookin

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Here's part 3 :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUGDBMDsKuM

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that was another great one. I think kevin should put all his snakes that are just sitting there not breeding this season on a liquadation sale for black friday. He has to many anywayz:D:please:

It's actually a part 3 out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUGDBMDsKuM&feature=sub

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Raphy and Kevin, thank you very much for putting out this series of interviews. I love getting the insight into the big breeders that we get with this and Reptile Radio. Kevin is truly a mad scientist/genius when it comes to ball pythons. He's so far ahead of the game with his revelations about how enchis reduce the white on pieds, and how he's getting to the point where het pieds are a morph into and among themselves. Who knows what knowledge he's hiding from us?

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Thats so true its scary. I almost feel like there is no hope to produce something new. LOL

How long is Kevin in this "bussiness"?

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How long is Kevin in this "bussiness"?

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I really am not sure on exact dates, but I know he has been around for a while. More then that, he has come up with so many of the new morphs its hard to compete. There are very few people out their that know as much as he does or sell as much to. "The evil morph god" says everything!

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Quoted from his The Complete Ball Python book jacket:

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Kevin McCurley owns and operates New England Reptile Distributors, known throughout the industry as NERD - a state-of-the-art reptile breeding facility nestled in the woods of southern New Hampshire.

Enamored with animals at a young age, McCurley pursued reptiles keeping as an adolescent, building a collection of various species over several years. Although formal education led to degrees in Computer Science and Computer Electronics, Kevin tired of a corporate work environment and set out with $7,000 and his snakes, but wasn't quite sure of what he was going to do. Over the past two decades, NERD has grown from a spare-bedroom snake collection to one of the finest reptiles collections in the world with a focus on breeding new and rare genetic color mutations of several species, specializing in ball pythons.

Kevin also spends his time playing guitar in the heavy metal band Crotalus.

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Raphy and Kevin, thank you very much for putting out this series of interviews. I love getting the insight into the big breeders that we get with this and Reptile Radio. Kevin is truly a mad scientist/genius when it comes to ball pythons. He's so far ahead of the game with his revelations about how enchis reduce the white on pieds, and how he's getting to the point where het pieds are a morph into and among themselves. Who knows what knowledge he's hiding from us?

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Kevin told me when I was up there in October, that this season was just the spring board for what he's about to do in the next few seasons. In other words - "you ain't seen nothin' yet!"

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Kevin told me when I was up there in October, that this season was just the spring board for what he's about to do in the next few seasons. In other words - "you ain't seen nothin' yet!"

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oh well now I am super excited to see what he is doing. He is nuts when it comes to forsight on what he thinks the outcome of a pairing is! Cant waite:D