Lowest prices you've seen for these morphs?

[wilomn]

See above.

I am sure somebody can start a Ball Python bargain hunters forum, right? Deal of the day!

Maybe you can call it "Snoot" and every day someone can post a great deal they saw on a Ball Python???

Actually, that's not a bad idea.

The fact is, the girl asked about prices, not quality of snakes or sellers.

People do sell high quality animals at bargain basement prices. I've done it, so have many others. Some big breeders make deals for low cost animals and there's no denying that, we all know it happens. We just don't always know to whom and for how little.

Price does not quality make, nor does it preclude it.

[h00blah]

I am sure somebody can start a Ball Python bargain hunters forum, right? Deal of the day!

Maybe you can call it "Snoot" and every day someone can post a great deal they saw on a Ball Python???

LOL!! ok, now THATS a good idea.

omg imagine that warzone

[EmberBall]

Look, some of us make $100K a year, some of us make much, much less. People from all walks of life and all income brackets can breed Balls, which is one of the big draws. Paying $4K for a Ball from a big breeder when you can buy it for $2800 from a smaller but honest breeder makes no sense. But, if you get labeled as a flawed or B grade Ball buyer, and plan on breeding them, don't expect educated buyers to buy from you. When you have kinked Caramels and ugly Pastels and all single Co Dom males to sell, don't come crying that you cannot sell your hatchlings.

[bobbittle]

So you profess the belief that price is a direct representation of quality?

In some cases, yes.

In some cases, the big shiny name brand inflates the price disproportionately. I can go to Aldi can get a can of corn for $.25 but that can of green giant at walmart is $1.00. More than likely they're the same corn, maybe even packed at the same factory. Why the price difference? Name brand.

N.E.R.D. is alot more recognizable in the industry than the random small breeder who still produces outstanding stock.

[jglass38]

Actually, that's not a bad idea.

The fact is, the girl asked about prices, not quality of snakes or sellers.

People do sell high quality animals at bargain basement prices. I've done it, so have many others. Some big breeders make deals for low cost animals and there's no denying that, we all know it happens. We just don't always know to whom and for how little.

Price does not quality make, nor does it preclude it.

I don't disagree with you. It does get a little tiring though hearing about prices. Also, people who tend to look at price first likely don't have quality at the top of their list.

Does it seem like these threads ALWAYS relate to Ball Pythons? I don't recall seeing them about any other animal.

[Turbo Serpent]

Value and Worth are two different things.

Just because you seek a deal doesn't mean it will carry the same value that it was worth.

There are plenty of people on here who paid $10k or more for snakes that are now worth massive amounts less, but they still carry the same value.

[wilomn]

Look, some of us make $100K a year, some of us make much, much less. People from all walks of life and all income brackets can breed Balls, which is one of the big draws. Paying $4K for a Ball from a big breeder when you can buy it for $2800 from a smaller but honest breeder makes no sense. But, if you get labeled as a flawed or B grade Ball buyer, and plan on breeding them, don't expect educated buyers to buy from you. When you have kinked Caramels and ugly Pastels and all single Co Dom males to sell, don't come crying that you cannot sell your hatchlings.

Dave, dave dave, doesn't ralph have kinked caramels? Doesn't that sort of shoot holes in your boat?

If you purchase "cheap" but good snakes, who friggin cares? There are enough newbs coming into this that reputation is not as important as some want to think for first timers. And once those first timers have a happy experience and get a quality snake they will purchase again as well as spread the word about what a cool snake they got. This also shoots hole, of a large caliber, into your rickety boat.

Do you ask the price of the parents of every snake you buy?


Lighten up.

[jglass38]

Dave, dave dave, doesn't ralph have kinked caramels? Doesn't that sort of shoot holes in your boat?

He may have them, but I don't believe he sells them. Now this isn't a defense of Ralph Davis because he is a big breeder I wouldn't buy from. I consider more than just the quality of the snake. I consider the breeder and the quality of person that breeder is.

[WingedWolfPsion]

I saw lessers for $375, but they weren't very good lessers, lol.

[Stewart_Reptiles]

I have seen low prices before but what is really relevant when you buy an animal, well at least for me is not how low the price is, it is how good the animal look and by whom it is sold.

When I look into purchasing a new morph, I am looking for the best looking example of that morph, I don’t buy a morph just to say I have it.

I also buy from people that I know and trust, I don’t buy from just anyone because they have the lowest price, there are people in this business I would not even accept an animal from even if it was FREE.

So yeah there are people looking for low prices and then there are the others!