If it's too good to be true....

[Kinra]

To both you and Kinra
I say if you want to sell for that low, make sure you only do it with close friends. You seem like great people and I don't think you'd ever build a good reputation with prices that low. All it does is scream "Hey, I want to move my snakes out, they are cheap, and the quality sucks." As we all know, you both aren't like that. But that is the message you will put out with a price like that.

I say if you want to price them lower, go ahead, but only discount them a little. Even for members here, we will be more likely to get a "forum member" discount of $50 on that albino, but a $250 discount is going to push away any REPUTABLE customers. You may have some creeps buying from you at that point. No offense to anyone, I just know that cheap stuff might attract cheap people that will NOT take good care of the snakes.


Just my .02.

I get what you were saying but I can't see myself getting a bad rep for selling my animals at around half price or less to local stores or members of my local herp society. Reputation is something that can take a while to build, so I plan on sticking to areas where I think I can sell fairly easily. That being said, I've also put a lot of time and effort into making a website so I can expand my business in the future.

I'm also in a sticky situation where if I actually start making money selling snakes I could lose my job. I signed a non-competitive agreement when I started which basically said I can't have any other source of income so I need to make sure I only ever break even or only turn a very small profit or any profit I make I need to donate to some cause/non profit.