Price someone is asking doesnt always mean greed, or trying to crash the market, or lack of visual quality, etc. It could mean they need money quick. When the online market is slow some drop prices to move an animal. You got to understand if there is one guy with 3 animals at that price then that means 3 people are gonna get a steal. It doesnt mean the market is crashing. Another thing you have to realize is that you are talking about a double codom morph. One that is easy to produce and one that a ton of people are working with and producing, therefore the market will not stay real strong for long on them. And to those that have the theory that just cause its a lower price means lack of quality cannot make that claim. You will never be able to tell with any pastel or with any baby on how its gonna fade as it gets older. I have seen some of the highest of "quality" animals fade bad as they age and i have seen some drab looking babies grow into smokin adults. Heres a scenario, you buy a top shelf best of the best pastel from one of the top breeders, you then breed it to a normal, this is gonna wash out the pastel. Or lets say you put that animal to another morph and you do the same thing. The ball python market is a race to produce. I dont think questioning ones integrity is the right thing to be doing. If you care so much about the highest quality possible then you have to buy only top shelf stuff at usually a premium and selectively breed to other top shelf stuff. If you do this then it sets you back years and by the time you produce your top shelf smokers the individual market on that animal will be a fraction of what it was when you embarked on that project.
Im gonna throw a name out there, a guy who i think produces some of the highest quality pastels and pastel combos anywhere. Mark petros. His pastels are in my oppinion the best there is. Hes been producing smokers for years. Now he has done so much work to produce such animals but now the pastel market is so low and flooded that this why the prices are what they are. But guess what? This doesnt mean you as the buyer has to pay top price anymore for top quality animals. It is what it is. The market on every morph is gonna drop as the supply increases on such morphs. So with that said if you want to be on top of the game then you have to buy big and sell at the right time. The ball market is alot like the stock market. You have to watch market trends and speculate on future trends. Otherwise youll just be left behind. Now i understand those that will say i breed cause i love my animals and so on. I get that but this is also a big industry where its a buisness and without it being this way their would be no viable market thetefore there would be no industry.
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