Quote Originally Posted by hanzo_baseball View Post
As a point of clarification, I never said it would "crash the market," that's hyperbole on your part. The point I was making is that, while it's clearly beneficial for buyers, does this really benefit sellers? What's the difference between this and what goes on at a show, when someone says "hey, the table next to you has a cinnamon for $20 less than you, do you want drop yours by $20 or want me to buy at the other table?" other than the obvious: now instead of competing with the next table for that sale, you're competing with tables all across the country, with the ability to put all the BPs of the same morph side by side.

Further, I simply do not see how sellers distinguish themselves from one another on morphmarket. Interesting you quote Raphael Martinez, when what he's talking about is marketing yourself and how you are different from other sellers, but morphmarket only minimally allows for that individualism: click the pic, then there's only a minimal blurb on the seller. The one thing that bugs me personally is that it's so hard to find out where the breeder is located: all things being equal (or close to equal), I'd find benefit in finding a breeder closer to me (I know it's easy to ship overnight from coast-to-coast, it's just a personal thing). I wish the breeder had the opportunity to provide a way to set himself or herself apart; I just don't see it here other than the opportunity to click to an external link to the breeder's facebook site.

Don't get me wrong, I love the site, I visit it every day; but as I mentioned before, I'm not a seller. If breeders think it's a good thing to compete this head-to-head in a craigslist-style market, then everyone is a winner. Generally, increased competition decreases prices. If morphmarket increases sales, perhaps it offsets even the possibility of prices decreasing. It's not my business, I was just raising a question for those whose business is ball pythons. For me, I just enjoy ball pythons.


ecomonics are sometimes so hard to predict.