Quote Originally Posted by Freakie_frog View Post
I haven't always thought this way but a good friend put it in perspective when he said "at the end of the day we're only selling snakes with paint jobs".

I look at it like this every breeder should price their animals based on what they think they are worth.. If breeder a produce crappy brown spotty bee's and thinks they are only worth 550.00 shipped that's their right and their more than likely right their only worth 550.00 and that's what their happy getting for them more power to them. But if a breeder produces nice bright clean spotless bees that hold their color and they think they are worth 550.00 still that is also their right. We are getting to the point where a breeder that takes great care in selective breeding can demand a higher price for their animals than on that really doesn't care they just want to produce bees and so they throw any ole Pastel and spider together. Like another friend said "I wouldn't pay 550.00 and expect a 1000.00 paint job any more than I would be happy paying 1000.00 and getting a 550.00 one either".

Yes Bees are easy to get but great Bees not so much. Think to yourself when it gets to be 1500+ grams and 5 years old will I still BEE proud to show it off or will it be "yeah that's just a bee" This goes for any morph base of combo. Are you buying the gene or are you buying the quality.

There should be an "agree" button next to the "thanks" button ...

I said it in another thread, but I will say it again -- I definitely think that in the future, as these "average" morphs become more and more common and available, it'll be the quality of the individual animal that counts, possibly even moreso than the morph.

Might seem weird now to think of a pastel that's more expensive than a bee ... But imagine if that pastel was yellower, and more vibrant, than the bee was.