Market Prices?

[WingedWolfPsion]

I agree with PythonWallace.

I've had a lot of decisions to make this year on prices, because the market is SLOW. That doesn't mean people aren't willing to buy the snakes unless you lower the prices--it means people aren't buying them very quickly no matter WHAT price they are. And if they ARE buying, they will pay what you ask, if it's reasonable. I think it is very important to stand firm at a reasonable extrapolation from last year's prices right now. I just base this on the few sales I have had so far this year, and from watching the ads and sales on Fauna.

I've seen people freak out and lowball some animals because they need to get rid of them in a hurry (financial problems, moving, etc)....and those animals STILL take forever to move. Others keeping their prices 'normal' are selling at about the same rate. There's no point in lowering prices until the animal sells, this year--we'll just be cutting our own feet our from under us for coming years if everyone does that, and it won't help anything. A lot of the lowballers will be gone in the future, too--what they're doing isn't very sustainable, and a lot of them are only doing it because they're 'getting out'. Once the people jumping ship are gone, you won't see so much of that.

Expect slow sales--slow sales are going on in a LOT of industries right now, not just this one. The sad part is, those of us on a narrow budget have to wait until we do sell some snakes in order to take advantage of all the really great bargains floating by. It's torturous! lol...
The entire collection sales are so tempting, sometimes.

But, yeah--my snakes are selling, slowly--but they are selling for reasonable prices, not lowball prices. There is no good reason to go low.

I also know where hoax is coming from. Doing market research for ball pythons can be a HUGE pain, when you have combo-morphs. If no one else is advertising one, how DO you know what they are worth? There doesn't seem to be a set formula, or logical order to it. I have a little woma-lesser, and I will be facing just that dilemma in about a week, when I put him up for sale. How much is he worth? I have no idea, because I haven't seen another one on the market. lol I am basically just going to have to make a wild guess.