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

[PythonWallace]

For me at least, it's not about being mad at people who value their snakes at lower than market prices, but at the entire situation of a handful of these guys driving the direction of the market, which works different than every other market in the free world. I don't mind holding onto my hatchlings as long as it takes to sell them, but that doesn't mean that it doesn't suck that the entire market is driven by a few people who are shooting themselves in the foot with their pricing so they can sell out in a few weeks, while destroying the real market values of all these animals.

I'm upset that in any other market, if an item sold out for $500 with new stock not being available for 6 months, you can believe that after those 6 months, they would hit the shelves with the same price tag, not a $100 price tag. It's so obvious that the demand is there at the higher prices, so it upsets me that a handful of people undercut market pricing and get followed be another handful of people in a never ending cycle, until the norm is giving all these rare animals away for less than it costs to produce them. I don't understand why so many people are paying good money for a pair to breed, raising them, breeding them, feeding and caring for the babies, then accepting less money than cost, when they could all be charging exponentially more if they could risk holding onto them for a few extra weeks. Why even breed and sell them if that's your business model?