How much did you pay for your albino ball python?

[Jamie-n-Heith]

IT SUCKS BEING BROKE!!! I will just go and drool over all the goodies....

[monk90222]

I paid $1200 back in 06.

[rabernet]

I really dis-like these threads. I think it de-values the worth of an animal.

And yes you can get "cheap" animals of any morph, but at the end of the day - are you getting an animal just for the sake of getting one (insert morph here), or because that particular animal blew you away?

As an example - I have seen enchi's pretty disgustingly low priced at a semi-local show to me - where I had to stand there and study the animal, truly study it, to determine that it wasn't just a nice banded normal (or a truly ugly enchi). I knew I wanted to add an enchi to my collection. But not just the first "great deal" to come along. I waited and waited, and I think that my patience (and willingness to pay more for her) really paid off:



Same thing with albinos. Sure - you can find "cheap" (and I hate that word as well - to me, it "cheapens" the animal) albinos if you look for them. But if you want one that looks like THIS (this is Freakie Frog's animal, btw - who I would buy off him in a heartbeat, if he were selling.):



then you're going to pay a little more.

Like Sean Bradley has said on more than one occasion - "Examine the snake - not the deal"

[Wh00h0069]

Five hundred and twenty-five last season for a male, which was the going rate.

Here is a pic of him:

[Freakie_frog]

I like Sean shop the snake and not the price lets face it I've see Pastels and then there's winston (the only pastel I'll pay for offspring from).


I've seen albinos and then there is this girl


there are spiders and then there Matts.


I said it once I'll say it again.. COST AND WORTH ARE TWO DIFFERENT THINGS.

[jglass38]

I agree with Robin. I don't ever buy an animal based on price. And please, can people stop using the word cheap in their ads? I would never buy from someone who labels something they have produced as cheap. I put far more value in the animals I produce.

[Argentra]

Oh I totally agree...but I posted the price of my snake to answer the OPs question. I know when I was in the market for an albino, I was asking the same. I was not asking to determine how low I could get one for, or to find the cheapest deal. No, I was asking prices to get a range.

When at the show, I found 4 albino BPs in my price range. The most awesome, a female who was more orange than yellow, was the priciest but I would have paid it. Problem was, I needed a male.
The second best albino was a plug producing adult with wonderful pattern clarity and color, but he was entering shed so his colors were dulled. I liked him best and kept going back to hold him and look at him. Yes he was shy, but he was a sweety and a beauty. I bought him because I liked him best, not because he was cheap (indeed, he was second most expensive. The fact that I got the price reduced was a bonus).

And yes, I'll be getting pictures of him ASAP. He is the shyest BP I own, and kind of hard to get good pictures of.

[oliverstwist]

we looked at one for 400 but willo be getting it next year, we picked a mojave instead

[Lazarus09]

Bought this guy from Mark Petros (ballpythons777) for $500 when he was about 10 months old. I believe he has babies for around $400 now (if he still has any left). I saw less expensive, but I wanted to make sure I bought from a breeder with a good reputation.

[stormwulf133]

I got this gal from Mark Miles for right around 300 iirc. Too good a deal to pass up. Yes I don't normally go for "cheap" animals. But I am poor, and have always wanted an albino, the price was right, and I liked the look of her. Plus I have a lot of Mark's corns and he has always been good to me. Sometimes a recession is a good thing, that and a sale on everything in his store is the only reason I got her that cheap.