Quote Originally Posted by ctrlfreq View Post
Because they 1) paid $1000 for the morph due to supply at the time of purchase, and 2) because they're driving up supply themselves (1-to-5 ratio at 3yrs, 1-to-10 at 4yrs, 1-to-15 at 5yrs and 1-to-45 at 6yrs when offspring become breeders).

Simply put, when there are 45 offspring in circulation for every one purchased on a six year roll, you simply can't continue to sell the offspring at 100% the price of the original stock.
Just to add on to what you are saying, this is correct if you assume that demand is a constant.

Given the state of the economy, do you think that the market for ball pythons has increased in size, or has it contracted? To me, evidence points towards the latter.

I don't believe that Kingsnake is solely responsible for price drops. Its natural to want to place blame somewhere, in an effort to control something that in reality, we have no control over.

Just enjoy your snakes and the rest will fall into place.