Zbyers7, welcome to the pyramid scheme known as 'trying to make money with ball pythons'.
It's huge and convoluted and mildly difficult to explain, but the TRUTH of the matter is that ball python morphs are severely OVER-priced to their true value.
There is nothing any one person can do to increase prices other than 1) reduce supply (STOP BREEDING) or 2) spend more money (get a high-paying job and spend ALL your money on snakes. big breeders rely on people who fall into #2 to support this entire hobby).
In addition, some big-name guys tend to think they are capable of producing numerous top-dollar animals AND keep prices high at the same time. These two goals are unfortunately contradictory. The best they can hope to do is artificially inflate prices temporarily, and set the whole system up for a dramatic price crash in the future. We've seen it in the past, we will see more of it to come.
Since practically all ball pythons selling TODAY for over $250 are seen as 'investments' you want to make money on, there are too many people expecting to make a profit with too few people pumping cash into the hobby without a desire to profit.
All that money you hope to make on high-end morphs has to come from somewhere, and since ball pythons don't crap dollar bills, that means that someone has to make negative cash when spending on reptiles.
I'm betting fewer and fewer people are going to be happy making negative cash on animals seen as 'investment' animals. Prices are going to crash.
Don't think of it as a bad thing. Just think of it as the universe balancing itself out.
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