Quote Originally Posted by WtGreg View Post
Good question, and picking a fight or not, a good point to bring up regardless.
This is honestly tough to answer as there are many approaches, each with question of what your goal is. Save time and money I would say do the suggestion of selling to a breeder or reseller at wholesale. desire a set amount and don't want to go lower, bring it up in size and sell it later. It looks like alot of what I would suggest has been covered. The thing is how you approach each of these options. Don't post lower and lower and lower. Want to move it out fast, sell it wholesale because you'll end up at that pricepoint anyways by lowering it constantly, and save the time spent over the period of constant lowering. Try a sale and then raise the price up. Try a package deal. So many options, you will get a feel for them as you get deeper into breeding and then selling them off.... Just don't post lower and lower without reason. You are shooting yourself and the rest in the foot without knowing it. The idea is keeping a separation between your prices and deals/discounts. Be discreet about deals. These days everyone wants something for nothing and feels they are entitled (for some reason) to it. If you are in this for the money like Doughy John, get out of breeding now as you may be disappointed. So many options and each with different points, so like I said, tough to give one direct answer. If you are trying to breed for the fun, but also make a business out of it, think of it like a business and not like a kid who sees $100 for a $300 snake (or however you want to work the math for that example) as a huge profit because you've never seen that much money and you don't have to pay for other things because you are still living with mom and dad.... sorry, that last line was a little direct and targeted at the one who pissed me off....
Thank you for the thoughtful reply. Although I do consider myself a 43 year old kid, I make a very good living, so the money aspect was never really a consideration. I've never kept track, but I'm fairly certain I've lost money every year I've been doing this. I think if I had more time to devote to selling it would help, but there are only so many hours in a day. Thanks again for the ideas...more options are a good thing.