Quote Originally Posted by m00kfu View Post
Not entirely true. Although IMHO that mindset is the reason the market prices continually drop so much. The buyers only set the price if you let them. If everyone wasn't so desperate to make a quick buck and was willing to hold on to their snakes rather than continually trying to undercut the next guy, the market WOULD be stable. Unfortunately, that's not going to happen until all the "get rich quick" people get tired of the game and move on.
Not to mention (this is my grievance) buyers expect to have the prices lowered the next year. We've gone on so long with dropping prices every year, that buyers just expect prices to drop like they deserve it.

That irks me. When people are in the mindset of "Well, Clowns last year sold for $3500, I should be able to pick one up for $2500, or even less."

Then along comes Joe blow, sells his Clown for $2200, and now the market has to follow because buyers EXPECT everyone else to follow, and it works!

How many excess animals do people have every year that they can't sell them all and MUST drop the price? Or have buyers trained the sellers to drop price because otherwise they are dreaming and no one will buy from them for having "over priced" animals?

How many times have you read someone publicly criticizing an Ad for being over priced and insane if they think they can sell them for that much? People call them rip offs and gripe about it, then they turn around and gripe that they can't sell their animals for as much as they paid 2 year ago. Well waddya know?! You mean you can't sell it for as much as you paid?? Amazing.