i go for look ether. of course everybodys taste is different. i saw a mojo in a reptile magazine. it was the hottest mojo ive ever seen. now i search a loooong time to findīsuch an animal- and if i find it, i pay a price that these animal is worth to me. if he sells it for 100 bugs under market priece- great i buy it. if he sells it 100$ over market price- i still buy it. cause it is worth to me.
and u must have something in mind. u can buy a cinnamon for 200$ and buy a pastel for 100bugs. u breed em and get pewters u can sell for 600$. but i would buy a cinni for 400bugs and a pastel for 250bugs. and i sell the pewters for 1000bugs.
of course were this just an example. but in gerenal i would say: buy top quaility snakes for fair prices and u will sell the babies for fair prices!
u can find pewters everywere- so u could sell em only over the price if they average. but when u have top quality pewters, people will run ur table down...
plus- u have wonderful babies where everybody is jealous about.
im so jealous about a cinni and a lesser i saw here....
edit: i think the future in ballpython breeding, will be selektive breeding. of course is the shooting for new morphs a topic, but i think a part of the market will focus on producing the nicest lessers and the nicest cinnis...