Quote Originally Posted by accidental777 View Post
I have read the first 17 pages of this. After hanging around this forum and other forums, I can understand some of the reasons why prices are so low. It has much to do with what JLC posted.
It seems that there are a ton of people that want to buy and eventually breed ball pythons, this much we can agree on. There are two different types of people that are doing this. The kind that have a respect for the animals, and have the drive and common sense to do the research first, and the people who expect others to hand it to them.
I see a lot of people that buy the snakes, and then want to ask millions of questions about feeding, what morph will this make, what should I breed this snake to, etc.
Now, before I get flamed.....I understand that this is a forum, and it is a good thing to ask questions. But, a lot of the questions can already be answered in stickied f.a.q.s
And if someone is soooo very ready to jump into this business, why are they so lazy that they can not even google or web research something??? I would think that if I were going to invest in something (or some kind of animal) I would want to know as much as I could about the said investment before I stuck money into it.
The biggest problem I see here is lack of research, and lack of education. People who aren't ready to own a business that involves keeping and breeding animals.
I would like to add all the people who jump in with no business plan or any kind of knowledge about how to properly market something. Those people who produce of bunch of baby snakes, put up an add on KS, and when they don't sell out realize that they don't have a clue what to do next, so they put up another add with drastically reduced prices, and repeat until they all have practically given away all their babies and helped to drop the market prices for the morphs they produced, because they had no idea what they were doing when they jumped in with two feet. Then they do the same thing the following year, if they don't drop out of the game after the first experience, without doing any more research and without coming up with a better plan than they had the first year.