The ones who truly love the snakes, will carry on the tradition and will respect what the ones before them have done. I started with Ball Pythons back in 2000, collected and bred small time from that point up until 2006, sold off all I had to enlist in the Marine Corps. Check out some prices from 04, this shows how far the founders of the trade have come and the amazing progress they made to make amazing animals affordable to everyone.
I remember back then dreaming of getting a Spider or a Pied, even an Albino was around 2500-3000. I could barely afford Pastels back then. Normals and Pastels is all I had then.
I very much enjoyed reading the pied thread. It really made me laugh at how far BPs have come.