This is getting RIDICULOUS! Lesser pastel for $400 shipped?!

[trcmustang]

[QUOTE=eel588;1689891]I would much rather purchase a $400 pastel that will retain it's quality than one that will look normal as an adult./QUOTE]

I agree completely.

[Daybreaker]

Just cause one knucklehead has no pride in what they produce doesn't mean you should do the same.

Who says that person doesn't have pride in the animal they produced just because they're selling it for less than what the market is currently at?

If I personally had an awful hardship come over me and I had to sell off my collection because there was no other way to get around it (needed quick $$$ or whatnot), I would probably drop my prices too if I was in desperate need to do so.

I've seen many ads where people are selling off nice animals for less because they need to, not because they want to.

They could be niave about the current market as well.

[rjk890]

If you feel that the $400. Pastel Lesser is low quality, then why are you complaining about the price of the animal being too low, and accusing the seller of being desperate and greedy ?

Should he price his low quality animal for the same $850. that others are asking for their eye popping Pastel Lessers ?

If it's as ugly as y'all make it sound, maybe he should just cull it.

[grizzlybear]

you think the guy was a knucklehead for selling cheap? I can remember going to an Indy show some years back with 70 tiger retics. I was there 3 hours and sold out! I beat the competition by 150$ a snake and sold em out. Was I a knucklehead? I think not. I didn't want to feed them another month and didn't have the room. But came home with 14 grand in 3 hrs. With 500$ invested in two gravid females. Yea I'll be the knucklehead.hehe
jusdt my 2 cents

[meowmeowkazoo]

you think the guy was a knucklehead for selling cheap? I can remember going to an Indy show some years back with 70 tiger retics. I was there 3 hours and sold out! I beat the competition by 150$ a snake and sold em out. Was I a knucklehead? I think not. I didn't want to feed them another month and didn't have the room. But came home with 14 grand in 3 hrs. With 500$ invested in two gravid females. Yea I'll be the knucklehead.hehe
jusdt my 2 cents

This is the kind of attitude that hurts the market. If people started matching (or beating) your price you could very well see the price of your animals plummet. Sure, it's nice to make some fast money, but you're hurting your own investment by lowering the prices so much.

To the OP, I paid $800 for my pastel butter, because he was worth every dime. I saw a lot of $500 pastel lesser/butters that didn't fit the bill, and skipped over them. People will spend the extra money if your animal is worth the price.

[grizzlybear]

My avatar is a lesser pastel that's on kingsnake for 325$ shipped. Good looking snake . I have beautiful snakes that I've bought for a 100$ and produced awesome babies. A knucklehead is the guy that travels to shows for months trying to make a buck and has same snake with him. What ya got in a hatchling? .75-1.00 in food before you sell? I'm getting ready to purchase 8 bumblebees for 275$ a piece and they are some of the best I've seen. Some people like to get rid of the babies and some like to raise them.

[Amon Ra Reptiles]

Personally I think it's a little ridiculous the way people talk sellers down when they sell animals under market value. For starters its your animal and you can sell it for whatever you want. That being said I have cut prices before simply because I was tired of feeding the animal or I needed the rack space or I had another project I needed to fund. It's business and I think the true effect on the hobby is minimal at best. But I promise you, if I have 15 bees in my rack and can't sell them at 350.00 they will be going out the door for a lower price. It's the same thing that any store does with merchandise that doesnt sell and it's not too likely that I'm going to feed an animal an extra 6 months just so I can keep it at a set price and not offend the reptile community.

[jmitch]

Being most of us are hobby breeder it should not matter what one sells there babies. If it bothers you that much i would say you sound greedy and that your not a hobby breeder and that your in it for the money.

[mechnut450]

the prices are always changing which sucks as most the time they go down.
I watch albino prices drope like a rock. I still sitting on my hets from this year.

I been in some tight money issues too (with taking in the 7 rescues that eat likt my 20 other snakes combine )
I toyed wit hthe idea of putting my proven albino and het ( female) up for a grand or so so I can turn around slove several issues we got in the house. ( moslty vechile realted. )

[Jay_Bunny]

Being most of us are hobby breeder it should not matter what one sells there babies. If it bothers you that much i would say you sound greedy and that your not a hobby breeder and that your in it for the money.

Just because we care what's happening to the market doesn't make us greedy and doesn't mean we are in it for the money. Even if you are a hobby breeder, most of us like to sell some babies every season to help pay for the costs of maintaining a collection of snakes. When prices go down, you earn less, meaning you may not make enough to cover your feeding bill, or you may not make enough to go out and buy that nice morph you like.