Price drops

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Even if you are making a profit with falling prices, the point is that ball python morphs don't need to be dropped as low as they are, as fast as they are. And if each snake costs $100 a year to care for, you are losing money when people push the prices down below $100. There isn't a ball python morph morph out there where females should ever fall below several hundred dollars, and males $100. Normals is a different story, because so many are imported.

No one can make anyone sell their animals for any price, but we can try to get it across that it's unnecessary and counter productive for each breeder, and for the hobby as a whole, to drive the prices down so low so quickly. If your animals aren't selling at market prices, it makes a hell of a lot more sense to try harder than it does to practically give them away publically, helping to crash your own market, and effecting everyone in it. We can try to get it across that breeders would sell out of females every year, even if the prices dropped 10% every year and never fell below $300. The message is that it's just plain stupid for so many breeders to continually lower prices as quickly as possible, to prices that are way below what they could be for sales to be the same as they are at the cheaper market prices. Is there really anyone involved in this conversation that doesn't think that female pastels would not get sold out every year had they not dropped so quickly, and if you couldn't find one for less than $300? Of course they would. So why are so many breeders in a hurry to give everything away, instead of taking the difference in price from a decent market price and the prices they are dropping them at, and spend it on improving your breeding stock and advertising your quality business? Stupidity, selfishness and greed, in my opinion. We can't tell anyone to sell their animals for more money, but when you all battle to have the cheapest of any given morph, you are telling the rest of the hobby that we can't charge as much as they are worth. The market is supposed to be what dictate a range for prices, but in this hobby the market itself is dictated by too many people who would rather shoot themselves in the foot and destroy the market for everyone, than to do any actual leg work or make any attempt to spend any time or money to make the sales like the decent half of the hobby does. The fact that female pastels ever dropped below $300-$400 proves that something other than common sense or actual supply and demand determines the market value in this hobby.

Have you seen the Economy ! I think that has a lot to do with it !