See I don't mind selling animals at a very low price, but not to an individual buyer. I understand how that "crashes" the market, and in the long run any breeder that is selling dirt cheap to the public is only harming his/her own business. Along with everyone else's. If people want to sell dirt cheap (and I plan to sell all my single gene and hets for dirt cheap) why not do it to one of the big breeders? I know they are going to turn around and sell those animals for retail price and make a huge profit, but you've still sold your animals, and by them jacking up the price to make their own profit it keeps prices high so that when you can afford to hold out for the right price on your animals you won't have so much of a loss. That's my plan anyway. I already contacted several of the large breeders/sellers and told them about all the snakes I'm going to try to breed this season and asked what prices they'll pay me for them. No, the prices aren't great, and most of them weren't even half of what I could advertise them for, but that's not the important thing for me. The important thing for me is that I can sell all my hets and single genes after a few feeds and not have to worry about feeding them for the months it might take me to move them on my own for a higher price. And even better, many of the breeders said they would trade me for my babies for some of the higher end morphs I want. And while I'll make a small, very small, profit off of them I'll do it without damaging the prices of other small time breeders because the big breeders/sellers I sold to are going to turn around and jack the prices up to retail value and make a nice profit. I, personally, don't see anything wrong with that. So to me selling cheap isn't the problem. It's selling cheap to the public and not your fellow breeders that is the problem. And I'll probably get a lot of flack for that, but that's my two cents.
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