If it's too good to be true....

[Adam Chandler]

Julie, I know what you are trying to say, but this is a completely different world. If you end up selling your snakes for that cheap, unless say to a close friend, you may get a lot of negativity in the reptile community from other breeders.

As JLC has mentioned, you need to price you animals closer to the market. As AK said, it would be best to give a small discount and not a 66% off discount. That is far too extreme, and why not make a little more money off of it to help you out some? There is NOTHING wrong with that.

Unfortunately a $100 male albino will only throw up red flags. Unless I was a good friend of yours getting a spectacular deal, I would never buy an albino priced that low.


To both you and Kinra
I say if you want to sell for that low, make sure you only do it with close friends. You seem like great people and I don't think you'd ever build a good reputation with prices that low. All it does is scream "Hey, I want to move my snakes out, they are cheap, and the quality sucks." As we all know, you both aren't like that. But that is the message you will put out with a price like that.

I say if you want to price them lower, go ahead, but only discount them a little. Even for members here, we will be more likely to get a "forum member" discount of $50 on that albino, but a $250 discount is going to push away any REPUTABLE customers. You may have some creeps buying from you at that point. No offense to anyone, I just know that cheap stuff might attract cheap people that will NOT take good care of the snakes.


Just my .02.

Jessica nailed just what I was going to say. If you advertise your morphs for well below market value you, even as a small breeder, hurt the market on that morph. People will see that as a sign the price for that morph is dropping, Other breeders will see your advertised price and lower theirs to try to compete, you can end up hurting many breeders, and then you may not have many other breeders as friends afterwards.
If you want to sell your animals discounted thats fine, that's your business. But when you advertise at these low prices, that is when you start to affect other breeders.

Colin Weaver wrote a pretty good article on the subject: http://ballpythonbreeder.com/2009/04...price-animals/