Pieds and Albinos have come down in price. I paid around $3k for my pieds in 2007. They come down slower because recessives are a little more difficult to breed. True once you get two visuals you can get 100% offspring. However, it takes you three years to grow up your hets, then three years to grow up those babies (if you get lucky enough to get a breeding pair hatched out), so you have at least six years invested in the project. If you did co-doms, you would produce visuals in the first generation. Since it takes more time to breed out those recessives, the price is more stable. Also, as people take their visuals off-line to pair with cool co-dom genes to produce more hets, the fewer visual recessive snakes there are on the market. It is all supply and demand.