Quote Originally Posted by Royal Hijinx View Post
IMO it is not healthy for a morph to stay in the super high bracket for too long. Then you see the huge drop. This really screws over that middle tier guy who buys in too high, and can actually sour folks on the morph a bit and drop prices more. So the big guys who bought early, make a fortune, but really kinda screw over the folks they sell to right before the bubble breaks. When this happens, layers are skipped money making opportunities for the mid and small breeder are missed.
I think that you have an interesting point here. However, prices are in the hands of the seller AND the buyer. Why did the super high price morph drop in the first place? Was it super saturated in supply? Was there a "defect" found? Was the price lowered to move along the snake more quickly? Was the priced lowered to compete with other people lowering their prices? Depending on the price drop, I'm sure there can still be money to be made as long as quality babies are produced. Mike Wilbanks has a good video up on Youtube called "The Ball Game" and it has a part 2 as well.

In econ, everyone is happy when the price hits equilibrium (the point of which supply meets demand at the perfect price point). I think that as long as people are willing to pay some amount of cash on a morph, the morph could stay at that price point. It is inevitable that prices for all morphs will fall, but I do all morphs will hit a plateau and stay there. I think that single genes will always be less expensive than a double gene (not saying that a bumblebee is worth more than a GHI).

To answer your question, I do not see myself as a large scale breeder. I see myself as a small scale breeder that is hopefully going to produce higher quality/ more sought after morphs (and morphs I like).