Its not about the money. A lot of hobbyists just want their snakes to pay for themselves to they can go on to get more snakes. I got my pastel male for 100. I got my female pastel for 225. That was a year ago. I haven't seen prices go down too much on those. I think one of the problems is, you have all these new people putting a bit of money into snakes and then turning around and selling the offspring for next to nothing. They feel they have to price it below the big guys in order to sell anything. If you look at the big breeders, prices haven't gone down much. It is new and upcoming breeders that are selling their snakes for less.