Lemonblast / Bumblebee - Crazy Price Difference?

[Theron]

I was just wondering why the extreme price difference in Bumblebees and Lemonblasts? Looking at 2011 Males specifically, I currently have the ability to go pickup a nice Bee male for $300 (not shipped), and most online are right around $300 to $350 plus shipping. Where-as the Lemonblast males are running anywhere from $100 to $200 more than that?

I mean, they are both a dominant gene (Spider or Pin) mixed with a Pastel. I don't see the reason for the major difference? I know Spiders have been around longer, but now I can go buy a 2011 Pin and a 2011 Spider for the same price...?

Just wanting to here some people's thoughts, specifically from some breeders who produce one or both of these morphs..

Thanks!

[RideRed12]

A lot more people got into bee's, there super hot right now. This means there is a huge supply of them, which means those with the best price will sell. Quality is huge too, I've seen some super nice bees go for 600. I think thats fair, the better the quality is, the more it should be worth.

[Royal Hijinx]

Supply and demand. There are probably less Lemonblasts; Lemonblasts could just me more popular; or some folks do not want to deal with the Spider gene.

[dart]

I picked up a male Lemonblast earlier this year for $350 shipped. You'll just have to look a little more. Seems like prices change every few months. Blasts might just be high at the moment. The ball python market seems more trendy then fishing supplies.

[LotsaBalls]

Superblast = $2000 Killerbee = $1500

[meowmeowkazoo]

I haven't seen any pinstripes that cost the same as spiders. All the pinstripes I've seen cost $100 - $200 more.

[Mike41793]

Yea I agree with you you. At the white plains expo a week ago the cheapest male lemonblast I saw was $400 and it wasnt a really nice one. Most were labeled at $450. The other weird thing I noticed though was that all the females I saw were $500, only $50 more than a male?
I personally dont like the spider wobble so I wanna work with pins instead.

[kevinb]

I personally think some of the price difference is the lack of the spider gene, pinstripes don't have issues like spiders do.

[OhhWatALoser]

ever since I've been in the hobby pinstripes have always been a little more. that difference is going to be multiplied when you get into combos.

I produced a bumblebee het hypo and and some lemonblast het hypos. I wanted to sell one of the male lemonblast het hypos so trying to figure out market value of them, it was easy to find that market value of the male bumblebee het was around 750 while I could only find a female lemonblast het hypo going for 1500, no males even for sale. not much supply out there.

[lance]

I agree some pricing in the hobby is just off I know supply and demand as well as quantity but if you have something that is only 2 morphs that aren't that big of a deal your hurting the hobby by going price crazy. But it is like the coral propagation game same thing goes on there if you give a coral a funny name you can jack the prices up. Its a question of asking more then its worth or just being in it for the money and not the snakes. Thats my opinion

Lance