But a bee male is not worth anything close to a Ivory female as an adult especially.
The het part is in question, making the snake worth $300 to $350 market value, if not less.
That's true. But he's not trading for an adult, so the value of the animal is what ever it is at the time of the trade, not potentional value after a bunch of if/and/but's.
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