My GOD! Do prices usually slice in half every year!!!!

[Wild Bill]

It's all good if pieds get to be 250.00 I'll just make 250 of them. easy fix. as pirces go down production goes up..

Just what we need.....

[Oxylepy]

The prices for basic morphs will continue to drop since people want designer morphs now, and more and more complex ones at that.

The age of the morph, whether it's recessive/dom/codom/super, and the prevalence of it in designer morphs all play huge roles in the cost. Pastels are in everything, thus they have practically already dropped to the cost of a normal ball python, while pieds are only in a few things, thus they are still quite expensive.

[JayCee]

It's one thing to say "I only deal with high quality animals", it's another to live it. You can breed a "high quality" animal to another "high quality" animal and still end up with some "low quality" babies.

This is where the hypocrisy shows through. How many of the self proclaimed "high quality only" breeders destroy the "low quality" animals they produce??

I'm pretty sure most of them decrease the price and try and sell it as a "low quality" example of a particular morph.

[fullrace2]

its all going down hill right now. i just sit back and wait to see a crazy deal and jump on it. i got an 08 high white mojave male for $180 shipped about 3 weeks ago and a week befor that i got an 09 male lemon pastel and a 1800g female for 140 shipped its getting crazy. i have seen a whole clutch of 100 het albino 3.5 with photo id for 250 shipped....

[dr del]

Hi,

This is where the hypocrisy shows through. How many of the self proclaimed "high quality only" breeders destroy the "low quality" animals they produce??

If they did I would call them a moraly vacuous boil on the face of the industry.

Not killing a healthy animal does not make you a hypocrite - it does, however,
mean that you aren't a horrible person who should be banned from keeping animals. Hope that clears that up for ya.


dr del

[Haydenphoto]

Your all looking at this wrong ! I believe the economy has a lot to do with all the falling prices ! Nobody is really spending money on anything right now. I feel bad for all the big breeders that have a huge overhead it has to be a tough time for them and that might be one reason for the drops to. But it all comes back to the economy that we have at this time in our lives ! ! ! ! !

[Serpent_Nirvana]

It's one thing to say "I only deal with high quality animals", it's another to live it. You can breed a "high quality" animal to another "high quality" animal and still end up with some "low quality" babies.

This is where the hypocrisy shows through. How many of the self proclaimed "high quality only" breeders destroy the "low quality" animals they produce??

I'm pretty sure most of them decrease the price and try and sell it as a "low quality" example of a particular morph.

Of course, any breeder, even one aiming for quality, is gonna have some ugly animals pop up. And I would hope that he or she would sell those for less, and be upfront about the fact that it's lower quality, as opposed to trying to pass it off as high quality just because they "only deal with high quality animals." That isn't hypocrisy; that's being honest!

The difference is that their goal is to produce high-quality animals. Not just XX morph, or XX breed (in the case of dogs/cats/rabbits/etc..), but a really good, stunning example of XX morph or breed.

[tsdsbd]

LOL I paid that for a single male

wow i got a pastel from a local pet shop for 50 bux!! they sold it off as a normal because he bought it as one that got mixed up in the clutch heh!!

[nixer]

Of course, any breeder, even one aiming for quality, is gonna have some ugly animals pop up. And I would hope that he or she would sell those for less, and be upfront about the fact that it's lower quality, as opposed to trying to pass it off as high quality just because they "only deal with high quality animals." That isn't hypocrisy; that's being honest!

The difference is that their goal is to produce high-quality animals. Not just XX morph, or XX breed (in the case of dogs/cats/rabbits/etc..), but a really good, stunning example of XX morph or breed.

that isnt whats going on they are still trying to sell them for the same price. alot of breeders have been trying to unload way below quality animals just go look at the trades section of KS.

this was also going on last time the prices dropped alot

[sg1trogdor]

as pirces go down production goes up..

Yeah but thats the whole reason why prices are dropping. Supply vs Demand. Supply goes up prices drop.