When to buy a Banana

[Pythonfriend]

this thread got sidetracked a bit

i think if you have 3 females ready, getting a male banana may be very well worth it, sooner rather than later. a female banana can only produce one clutch at a time, so if you get a female things will move slower, but still. The prices will fall from season to season, but even when you start selling later when the price is lower, if you hatch clutches and produce good combos you will see the black numbers.

lets say you buy one for 1500-2000 now and start selling in 4-5 years because you hold them all back and do it slow, will the morph be down to 200? Nope, because these things are just too pretty. mass demand will kick in sooner. even if thousands are produced, i see the price getting stuck around 300-400 for a while. also you will produce multi-gene combos with banana, that also keeps the prices higher. So when you finally decide to sell, how many BPs in a price range between 200-600 dollars (or higher for nice combos) do you need to sell to get to black numbers when you now buy in for 1500-2000?

price decline bites when you dont get eggs. when you get eggs its rather meaningless.

[Neal]

Honestly, by next year they may be around $500 and if not then it will be by the following year.

[Kodieh]

Unless you've got a couple females you could breed to, I wouldn't invest until they're in the less than 500 range. Which, at this rate, will be March or so next year.

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[Royal Hijinx]

I went ahead and picked up one this year. He will be perfect for some females that I will have come online in the next 6-8 months.

I agree that there WILL be a price shelf that they settle at. In the next 6 months it may actually become hard to find one if they drop to $1000. Demand will kick in to overdrive at a certain point. Also, females will now go for more than males from here on out, with the possible exception of a female maker male (you really never see those for sale).

Also now is a great time to shop not only the gene, but quality of pattern and depth of color. My boy is nice and reduced, and very bright. And it was nice that I had a few to choose from before picking him.

I think the better trend will be to put them with DARK morphs. The Leopard Banana, and Cinny Banana are just nuts! Also, getting them more in to recessive projects will be huge, and the later you start on that, well the later you are to the party.

[DTK]

I'd also love to add a banana to my collection, but with how rapidly prices are falling right now, I decided to just wait it out. I will be adding a codom clown male of some sort before I get a banana. Once I do decide to get one hopefully next year I will also be looking for a female-maker. Just my thought process.

[DTK]

I went ahead and picked up one this year. He will be perfect for some females that I will have come online in the next 6-8 months.

I agree that there WILL be a price shelf that they settle at. In the next 6 months it may actually become hard to find one if they drop to $1000. Demand will kick in to overdrive at a certain point. Also, females will now go for more than males from here on out, with the possible exception of a female maker male (you really never see those for sale).

Also now is a great time to shop not only the gene, but quality of pattern and depth of color. My boy is nice and reduced, and very bright. And it was nice that I had a few to choose from before picking him.

I think the better trend will be to put them with DARK morphs. The Leopard Banana, and Cinny Banana are just nuts! Also, getting them more in to recessive projects will be huge, and the later you start on that, well the later you are to the party.

Banana Clowns, and Banana Pieds are awesome!

[Marrissa]

Banana and GHI are things I'll be picking up a few years from now after I'm a nurse. I don't have any use to buy males right now when my females aren't up to size, and when I can't breed now anyways. Hoping by that time GHI has dropped down to 2k or lower and that bananas have settled their price range.

[RichieBoo]

That was very helpful.. Thanks for the help..

[4theSNAKElady]

$1500 already? About 5 weeks ago we saw them at Daytona for $3-$4k! And already theyve dropped that much??? Jeez. I think by this time 2014, im gonna predict males will be going for $800

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[Neal]

$1500 already? About 5 weeks ago we saw them at Daytona for $3-$4k! And already theyve dropped that much??? Jeez. I think by this time 2014, im gonna predict males will be going for $800

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I've seen some two go for under that even snake. One went for around $1000 at an auction and I seen one go for $1200 as well. I mean granted even that you can still make your money back if you breed to a few females but still.