Why are ball python morphs so expensive?

[BEasy119]

You can get a normal for $25. It all depends on where you buy your bp's from. I can't wait to get some snakes from Garrick Demeyer. Check out his website

http://www.royalconstrictordesigns.com/

[rabernet]

LOL - if you think that these prices are expensive, you would have keeled over from shock on the prices just a few years ago.

Morphs are VERY affordable these days. You couldn't get an albino for less than $1800 a few years ago, now you can get them for $300. Pintripes were going for over $1000, now they're $200 and less.

So - to me, and many others of us, morphs are anything BUT expensive.

[BbyBoa]

LOL - if you think that these prices are expensive, you would have keeled over from shock on the prices just a few years ago.

Morphs are VERY affordable these days. You couldn't get an albino for less than $1800 a few years ago, now you can get them for $300. Pintripes were going for over $1000, now they're $200 and less.

So - to me, and many others of us, morphs are anything BUT expensive.

This is somewhat true. If you want to you can still find your very expensive morphs so its not like the expensive ones disapeared they just changed. its pretty much just basic economics, Supply was low on these morphs so prices were high, now supply is pretty high so prices come down a ton. This will happen to all of the morphs you see now that are 1k-10k, it might take a while but eventually they will all come down in price.

[Freakie_frog]

LOL - if you think that these prices are expensive, you would have keeled over from shock on the prices just a few years ago.

Morphs are VERY affordable these days. You couldn't get an albino for less than $1800 a few years ago, now you can get them for $300. Pintripes were going for over $1000, now they're $200 and less.

So - to me, and many others of us, morphs are anything BUT expensive.

This makes me cry to know what I paid for an Enchi back in 2008 and now look at their prices or spiders

I remember seeing Lesser's for 25K back in 2006 and people whine when they are over 300.00

I know people like to reference the whole supply and demand thing but I really wish people would get that out of their head..I mean do spider's looks any less AWESOME today than they did back in 2002 or do Pied's or any morph.

Any way I'm with Robin and Kevin and a few others when I say people just getting into the hobby now are spoiled look at all you can get for under $1000.00

[BbyBoa]

This makes me cry to know what I paid for an Enchi back in 2008 and now look at their prices or spiders

I remember seeing Lesser's for 25K back in 2006 and people whine when they are over 300.00

I know people like to reference the whole supply and demand thing but I really wish people would get that out of their head..I mean do spider's looks any less AWESOME today than they did back in 2002 or do Pied's or any morph.

Any way I'm with Robin and Kevin and a few others when I say people just getting into the hobby now are spoiled look at all you can get for under $1000.00

I see what your saying, but its not a matter of what they look like its a matter of how many there are. Ya spiders still look exactly the same, but everyones brother, sister, aunt and uncle is breeding and selling them, they are not going to be able to stay expensive. You cant take the supply and demand thing out because thats what it is, pretty much in purest form.

[mechnut450]

you can also look to oat it this way bps live easy 20+ years verus a bearded dreagon ( what it is like 5 years ??? ) plus during that time you can get your money back and then some if you do breeding ( even as the price falls).

I know at times I can't give away normals/possible hets lol. But then again I am a noob breeder and have not credit when comes to the hets..

[Freakie_frog]

I see what your saying, but its not a matter of what they look like its a matter of how many there are. Ya spiders still look exactly the same, but everyones brother, sister, aunt and uncle is breeding and selling them, they are not going to be able to stay expensive. You cant take the supply and demand thing out because thats what it is, pretty much in purest form.

So if the supply is low the price is high ? right
Supply is high but demand is low then the price low? right

So what happens when supply is high and demand is high??

[BbyBoa]

So if the supply is low the price is high ? right
Supply is high but demand is low then the price low? right

So what happens when supply is high and demand is high??

If supply is high and demand is high, it could possibly stay about the same, but in some cases due to competition "like in the snake business" prices could also fall.

[Freakie_frog]

If supply is high and demand is high, it could possibly stay about the same, but in some cases due to competition "like in the snake business" prices could also fall.

So it's not supply and demand it's the breeders racing each other to the bottom because they are scared that they can't compete...

So like I said our business doesn't fit supply and demand it fit's the garage sale model. basically the "that's been sitting there for a while and I don't feel like keeping it any more so make me an offer"

[Freakie_frog]

According to supply and demand models price only drops when the demand falls below the supply..and yet I haven't seen a drop in demand for pieds, albinos, bee's, BEL's or Banana's and yet every year the price goes down which must mean more and more people just don't like them..

According to the models I'm seeing Price dosen't drop with supply it drops with demand..