Why We Are Idiots For Using Kingsnake.com To Price Our Animals

[Blue Apple Herps]

what nobody seems to mention though is quality. Just because some guy was able to hatch out a super pastel in his basement and puts it up on KS for 400 bucks doesnt mean its anything close to one that Graziani or VPI would sell for 1000. Same way you can find a beat up Camaro on Ebay for 1000 bucks or you can buy a mint one for 15k, etc. It's a free country and the free market always weeds out inferior products in the long run. Of course if you use one site or classifieds to base your prices on you are not getting the full picture of the overall market.

I agree with this. People will always pay for quality. I think the car example is great. Sure I can find a ton of $75 pastels, but most of them are already browning out and fading color, even as hatchlings and have dull colors. In a year or two, those won't look much different than normals.

I do think KS negatively affects the market, however, i do think the market was over inflated to begin with. Plus with more people breeding means there is going to be more stock, which means prices will fall. I do think that to some extent this causes a deflationary effect in which people hold out on buying waiting for the price to fall. Thus when animals aren't moving, one lowers the prices, and the cycle continues.

But prices will fall, and they'll continue to fall even w/o KS. Its just a fact of life. We can sit around and complain about it and cry over spilt milk, or we can just adapt, and focus on producing the highest quality animals and to plan long run taking into account falling prices.