Why We Are Idiots For Using Kingsnake.com To Price Our Animals

[wilomn]

They will probably lose interest in thier collection and sell it on craigslist to another bargain hunter anyway. If you fall into the bargain hunter category, keep you stinkin' mouth shut about the bargain you got. I know this goes against your very nature, but you are only driving the value of your own animals down.

Are you selling animals or raising children?

It's all well and good to have a serious care for where your babies go, but seriously, the above is WAY overboard.

If you got a good deal, why should you shut up about it? So someone else doesn't get it? That's a nice way to treat your fellow snake keepers.

Value is what you can get for your snake. If you're happy selling pieds for 500.00 then that's their value to you. Who gives a flippy dip what anyone else says?

A LOT of you folks seem to want to dictate what you can get for YOUR snakes. Good luck with that.

I breed FWCs. I think I'm the originator of the hypo strain in this snake. I've been selling hets and hypos for years and superhypos for a couple of years. I produce a fair number of these snakes as do several other breeders. They sell theirs, which are often related to mine, for half what I do. Crap happens. I usually have babies year round because I don't lower my prices past what I want. You will probably see the same ad on KS week after week but you know what? I'll sell em all for what I want if I'm willing to wait. I could sell them all for less just like the other guys, and quicker too, but I'm not in any hurry so I wait it out.

You can't control, nor should you be able to, what anyone else sells their stock for.

You can, however, quit complaining about how unfair it is that joe-nobody sold his babies for half what you, YOU, think he should have and is now happily vacationing in Vegas while you shovel snake poop and people tell you you're over charging. Welcome to Life 101, sometimes it sucks.

BUT, when you get over it, it feels good to get what YOU know your babies are worth, even if you did have to wait 6 months to get it.

Heck, those calkings you see at every show for 20 bucks or less.... back when I first started breeding them big time I was getting more than 100.00 each.

Times change, people grow their babies up, prices go down.

A bunch of you talk about not breeding for the money but for the love of your snakes and seeing them do what they do. If you are not lying through your pants, then what, if ANYTHING, you get for your babies is irrelevant and you should politely excuse yourself from any conversation regarding prices since they don't matter to you. If you don't care about the money, why does it matter what they sell for?

I think is sucks that my many generations of work calkings are sold so cheaply by so many, but such is life. I'm not real fond of the fact that I help cheap FWC breeders sell but I'm not a discount house, and, such is life.

If you can't handle the ups and down down downs of this market, perhaps stamps or coins would be of more interest and less stress. Give it consideration.