Lets not forget the people that only look at balls as a cash cow. They buy a very expensive male.. Breed it to 20 normal females and when everyone hatches out they try and make what they can and then sell everything super cheap so they don't have to feed them.
That brings prices down steadily. It's really not one thing or another. It's a range of things that cause prices to go down. Decline of pricing has never deterred me from buying what morphs I like. A lot of the animals I have we're incredibly expensive when I first got into the trade. They were a dream for me to even own much less produce. I produce what I enjoy and what projects have meant something to me this whole time.
When I buy a new animal I honestly don't look at where the market will be today or tomarrow. I buy because if I honestly enjoy that morph and want to work with it I want the best example and I want to produce something awesome.
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