Quote Originally Posted by Rat160 View Post
Do people even proofread their posts? There are some posts that I read it and still have no idea what the person was talking about due to so many errors. But on to the topic at hand. There are so many new morphs coming out daily that I highly doubt the industry is in trouble. As far as that post goes its utter rubbish. Just a guy that's upset that he can't sell his animals at a high price. Myself being a breeder just starting out I look at any business plan. If you want to sell your product you have to be cheaper. When my company is looking to have work done we take 3 bids. Whoever is cheaper takes the work. We do take into account quality but with snakes quality is in the eye of the buyer. I have bought some snakes at a fraction of big breeder prices that looked way better. When I sell my animals I will be looking at what that particular snake is going for on several sites and sell it for just under that. That's the way business works and there is no getting around it. If I want to sell I have to be cheap. Nothing against nerd but I would never buy a snake from them. Not because I don't want to but because I can't afford to. They price their snakes so high that I'm not willing to pay for the nerd name. I can't get the same quality from some guy breeding out of his basement. Just my .02
I find the first "bold" statement to be somewhat untrue. Business plans vary for each industry; maybe you develop a phone app that does "this and that," but there is already an app doing "this and that." If your app provides the exact same services as the other app, the best way to sell your app is to sell it cheaper. This concept, however, cannot be applied universally to all industries. It just doesn't work that way. Quality, in the BP industry, will always demand higher prices (IMHO).

In my opinion, this is exactly what leads to rapid decreases in market prices. You go cheaper than the guy/gal posting before you, and the breeder posting next goes cheaper than you.

Read the article by Colin that is hotlinked in a previous post.