"Market Crashing" Question about pricing, etc.

[wilomn]

Those guys over at that site are sooooo full of themselves. Ask them about flipping sometime, but don't expect any of them to admit to doing it even though, when you come right down to it, many of them have. They're a bunch of two faced wannabes over there.

When you start worrying about offending someone with your prices you've stopped doing things, snakes, for the fun and are now doing it for status. Status is all well and good, but if you've got to kiss ass to get it, is it worth it?

With my own animals. an I don't produce many balls, I price them for what I want to get for them until, or unless, they don't sell then I either wholesale them or make some folks some awesome deals. I'm not going to keep a bunch of snakes, feed them and clean them and just have them taking up my time so I can get a few pennies more and so some guys on some website don't think I'm dropping the price. Screw them and anyone else that wants to tell you, or I, what we should sell our snakes for.

Living in America, which those guys one that site like to harp about, means being free to do as you wish, not to have to kowtow to some forum 'gods' who, when you come right down to it, don't want you to lower your prices so they don't have to lower theirs. Do what YOU want to do. The main reason they harp so long so often on people lowering prices is because.....THEY WANT TO MAKE AS MUCH AS THEY CAN FOR AS LONG AS THEY CAN. It's not like they care about you at all, they just want to keep making big bucks.

And there's nothing wrong with that, wanting to make big bucks. It's just a shame that the sham they pretend to actually fools so many newbs into thinking those guys on that site are right. They're not.

If you want to sell pieds for 200.00 and you're happy with that, then do it. You'll be making someone else really happy too. Lower price doesn't always equate to lower quality. I can't even guess how many times those guys on that site have said they're in it for the hobby not to make money, then turn around and try to make just as much as they can.

No matter what you do, someone will complain. As long as you're OK with what you're doing, no one else's opinion should matter.