Prices of new morphs

[Rapture]

Just wanted to get some opinions from everyone out there... What do you think a newly discovered, genetically proven, new morph of ball python should be worth? In 2003 Ralph Davis paid $70,000 for an unproven, imported white ball python. Will Slough priced his Banana at 80K this year. Do you think new morphs still command this high of a price?

[bonheki]

i think the snake market is going down to sell more cuz some prices are unreasanable
and im thinking your thinking of the lunesetic bp also i seen a albino anaconda for 75k and then the guy lowered it to 30 k with 2 males to breed with but no one is intrested cuz its way tooooooo much money now i think some snakes will be alot more reasonable

[Rapture]

It was later discovered that the white snake Ralph purchased was an Ivory.

[bonheki]

oh wow that much for an ivory nerd has all kinds of bp's pretty sure they have a ivory
how much do you think the babys will cost ? alot i bet$$$

[Rapture]

When Ralph found out what he had bought was in fact, an ivory... he realized he paid a little too much for it. He bought the snake before an ivory was ever produced in captivity. Ivories are no where near 70,000 today.

[bonheki]

of course if they were that much no one would buy one in fact the breeders would be packed with 1000000 ivorys i still like lunestdic more then ivorys

[JASBALLS]

When Ralph found out what he had bought was in fact, an ivory... he realized he paid a little too much for it. He bought the snake before an ivory was ever produced in captivity. Ivories are no where near 70,000 today.

I think it was pete kahl.. Not Ralph..

[Rapture]

Jas, I got this from Ralph's site

I myself have "Lilly"............she is a female "Ivory" that I imported from Africa as a baby in 2003..........to the tune of $70,000.00!!........then I find out that for the past three years I have been producing "Yellow Bellies" aka "Goblin Markers"........I knew they were "weird" and I would have eventually line bred them...........I guess I should have worked a little faster on that one huh?

[Sputnik]

Last price I saw on the banana was 60K.... hard to instill confidence in potential buyers when you drop the price like that.

Makes it look a little shaky!

[Rapture]

So would anyone like to share their opinion about the monetary worth of a new morph?