I have been reading this thread for awhile now. I have always been and always will be a haggler. It's incredibly hard for me to pay full price for anything, even a T-shirt. Many people argue you can't get quality unless you spend "quality money". That is something I am very against. I think being frugal is an amazing way of life. No one "NEEDS" anything but food and water. The majority of time if people look long and hard enough they will be able to find quality in the product AND quality in the price. The problem today is everyone wants everything NOW!!! They find something they "NEED" now. This is not the case. In the snake market many breeders sell their animals as "one of a kind" or "this one won't last long". It's hard to pass up one of those offers, right? In my opinion, NO. I have seen many great animals for prices I wish I could afford but cannot and am jealous. I wait for awhile, many times for over a year, then BOOM a local person or a breeder at a show has "THE SNAKE" I've been dreaming of. I don't have to pay the $40-70 for shipping and the animals is usually less than what I would have paid online. I have always bought the things I have wanted for reasonable prices. Rarely I make exceptions for people online, when I do those people have to have great reviews and quality animals that I can see.

I would have no problems with anyone trying to get the price they can afford for a snake I offer. If I don't think it's adequate I will object, yet use quality customer service the whole time. If they can't find something for better, they will be back.

This year at the Tucson Show was the only year I haven't even tried to haggle. My breeder offered amazing prices to me. I would feel bad asking less for a yearling high contrast albino female for anything under $300 and a perfect black pastel female for $150. I think it helps that I have done business with the breeder in the past. For this reason alone I was able to get a price that far exceeds my expectations which is another reason to buy locally. Maybe that's just me...