One thing to remember is that even though bartering is a good thing for the buyer, it can and often has caused unjust fluxes in the market. Not many people look to buy these ball python morphs because they want them as pets. Most people honestly are eventually going to breed them and hopefully make a little if not a lot of money off them.
When a vendor has a particular snake on a table at a show that is marked at 500 and you barter it down to lets say 350 that is a good deal for you, or is it. Now what happens in all actuality is that from this point forward you as well as anyone that happened to witness this transaction thinks that this particular morph is only actually worth 350. By getting a "good deal" on your snake you potentially hurt the market and in the big picture of things your own investment because you will never be able to sell the babies for what you paid for its parent.
I personally respect the hard work and effort put in to making these morphs by most of the breeders out their and as a general rule will willing pay the asking or true market price for their animal. I do not want to get into a huge discussion about the love of animals and not for the money tirade here.
As far as your original question, I have not been to Daytona, but I do not that every name in the business as well as 100's no one knows will be vendors their. I would wait and look around at the show before I purchased anything and see what the show has to offer. You never know, you might find an animal that you just have to have instead of the pinstripe or the lesser. Todd
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