Price drops

[Mike Cavanaugh]

Who are you, or anyone else for that matter to decide what HIS prices "should" be? It's appalling that there are so many people that think it is okay to dictate to others how to run THIER business, or how to price THIER ball pythons. What country do we live in again??

To be honest, such statements REEK of greed IMO.

Some of the people in this conversation have been around for a LONG time. Some of the people in this conversation have spent a ridiculous amount of time and money on the first morphs acquiring, raising, and breeding them. Why did they do it? To make a couple bucks and to make it possible for others like you to be able to own such wonderful animals.

Now that they have spent all this money, and done all this work, people are acquiring the same animals for already low prices. Those people with $$$ in their eyes immediately try to breed the animals as quickly as possible usually with total disregard for the quality of their morph breeder, let alone the quality of the animal they choose to breed it with.

Then when their clutch or two hatches, they realize how difficult it can be to raise hatchlings, and how unprepared and more importantly UNWILLING they are to do what it takes to maintain the hatchlings until they have the opportunity to sell them at a fair market price. You can guess what they do next.

They sell the babies at ridiculously low prices just to get rid of their headache ASAP. People see this advertised price, and also sees several other similar people doing the same thing, and the damage is done. The average prices drop screwing EVERYONE except the buyer... especially the original people who made these snakes possible for us in the first place.

Who are YOU to say people don't have a right to upset with those that cause these unnecessary price drops? Your saying that just demonstrates how you obviously do not understand the history of the problem.



On another related point... In my opinion it is the bottom dwellers who reek of greed. They are the people that don't want to put any work or money into owning the best animals. They would rather let everyone else spend all the money and time acquiring, raising, and breeding multiple generations. Then they like to jump in on these arguments defending the guy who is burning thru snakes, permanently damaging the market because they are almost willing to spend the amount the guy in question is selling for... Hoping to drive the market even lower.

The really crappy part is these same people who were not willing to put any of the work or money into getting their animals are usually the same people who gets in way over their heads and dump all of their animals.