Technically I would call any recessive visual animal a double gene, as it takes two genes to make it show up, so think of it less like a pastel and more like a super pastel...except lavender albino lol!
Also take into account supply and demand. Lav albinos are hugely gorgeous and a lot of people want and are willing to pay money for them... A lot of things have not been mixed with the lavs yet too, so there is some stuff to be made with them. Another thing to consider is they are recessive.. meaning it takes longer if someone were to get two hets and breed them to get a lav..breed a lav back to a het..etc. Could take a long time. maybe your first year breeding your two 100% hets means you got no lavs at all! Buying a lavender albino saves you effort, you basically get to jump ahead and skip the early stages of breeding that morph. You pay more for the ease and for the time it took for the other breeder..as well as for quality, and for competing with other buyers when everyone wants it!
What do you mean "biased breeders"? I'm not a breeder, I just study business in hobby careers!
Another thing to think about when it comes to seeing similar quality animals for varying price has to do with how much the breeder needs the animal gone. Let's say one year...a guy made 20 really REALLY nice bumblebees. They don't have many, they can afford to wait out at a high price for the buyer willing to pay for the quality. But another breeder gets 200 of the same super NICE quality bumblebees...He's probably going to lower the price at least on some of them just to get them out the door so he doesn't have to feed them forever! Then add in stuff like if no one else bred bees last year, or if they are suddenly the 'secret ingredient' for an incredible new morph..or whatever else affects the market!
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