Do people really buy these??

[LunaBalls]

Some of those babies are very nice looking....and if I wasn't scraping by at the moment and had the money, I know I'd take a gamble. I think that's a fun part of the hobby. Because you never know. Yes, it could just be a normal and that would kinda suck (but you just have to tell yourself "oh well" and keep going). BUT, it could be something new....you have to take your chances. If you just stick with the already established morphs, you're just going to be breeding the same exact things most other people are breeding...and creating nothing new.
Just my opinion.

True, I agree.

[mainbutter]

Do people buy them?

Yes.

If I was underground, I'd be just as happy to sell them for those prices as turn away someone offering 2/3 of their asking and keeping those animals in the hopes that even just one proves out as something worthwhile.

[Johan]

If people pay the price they are worth it. To some people, a normal that is pretty is worth a few hundred bucks. If I feel in love with one, id buy it. To me, spending a few hundred dollars on an animal I can have for 30 years is a bargain. Just because its a genetic morph doesnt mean anything if you arent breeding anyways. In fact, a healthy normal is likely genetically superior.

[JLC]

I don't find the prices to be outrageous at all. I'd pay for a few of those, if I currently had the money and capacity to take on new animals.

It IS a bit of a gamble, and not everyone is comfortable doing that...but there's nothing unfair about the prices, just because some people aren't comfortable with them. Better to have a greater chance of getting those babies into the hands of someone serious about proving them out...than letting them go to just any pet owner who has no incentive to breed them.

[Kingofspades]

Most I've spent on a dinker was $450, however, this is a 2300 gram adult female. She has 5 eggs in the bator now, so hopefully I will prove her out this season, and I bred her to a CH yellowbelly...so either way I should get something.

[mainbutter]

NEAT! Was she wild caught? If so, extra congrats on getting a WC animal to breed in captivity

[Kingofspades]

NEAT! Was she wild caught? If so, extra congrats on getting a WC animal to breed in captivity

Nah. Captive hatched.
Outback Reptiles got her in a few years back, raised her, bred her, she didn't lay so they sold her.
I bred her to my captive hatched yellowbelly (who was 400 grams at the time) and she laid 5 eggs, so it's either him, or the silver streak she bred to last year who fathered. Either one I would be fine with. Haha.

[mbavenger]

lol that is crazy, I just bought a bunch of ghana babies from Ben Siegel Reptiles. a lot look just like those, I just need to sell 1 at those prices to pay for all of them. I bet someone will buy them though, just not me.

[purplemuffin]

I'm just thinking about some of our morphs like sable, spotnose, even vanilla.. I have seen normals darker than sables, lighter than vanillas, and with some weird freaky patterns, weirder than what spotnose ball pythons have!

I can't imagine what a gamble it was to breed animals like those and hope for a morph! And now they are used in a lot of morphs! We have a LOT of proven morphs which really look just like pretty normals, so someone out there is hoping to have the next big thing that ends up making a ridiculously fabulous animal they can sell for a lot of money and get known for!

I can imagine it would be exciting, and for those who are willing to gamble with the money.. good luck to them!

[Kingofspades]

I'm just thinking about some of our morphs like sable, spotnose, even vanilla.. I have seen normals darker than sables, lighter than vanillas, and with some weird freaky patterns, weirder than what spotnose ball pythons have!

I can't imagine what a gamble it was to breed animals like those and hope for a morph! And now they are used in a lot of morphs! We have a LOT of proven morphs which really look just like pretty normals, so someone out there is hoping to have the next big thing that ends up making a ridiculously fabulous animal they can sell for a lot of money and get known for!

I can imagine it would be exciting, and for those who are willing to gamble with the money.. good luck to them!

The way I look at it is this:
If I have a dinker male, I breed it to a normal female to try to prove it.
If I get a dinker female, I breed it to a morph.

Look what happened when someone was like "Oh, this female looks neat...let's breed a mojave to it" and POW...Crystal.
Or "this one looks interesting...I'll breed it to a yellowbelly" and pow...super stripes.

One dude even proved his OWN line of Crystals AFTER the originals just from dinking. (Lucky SOB)

So yeah...dinkers can be fun.