When to buy a Banana

[Neal]

I also know of a few going at this rate. I guess if you're going for recessives and have those females ready to rock, then you might as well go for it. Personally I'm not even going to bother with bananas, with the male maker issue I think in 3-4 years they're going to be as common as spiders are now. With the way they're getting churned out by everybody trying to make their money back they'll be available pretty cheaply in whatever combo you want.

But like others have said, they will still find a balance. This is how the market usually works, or it has in the past. Don't quote me on price as I'm just using a general price to give people an idea.

Brand new morph = $50,000
The year after = $20,000
The year after that = $10,000
The following year $3-4,000
The year after that $1,000, later that year $600ish
The following year $500 but could drop to $300, maybe even cheaper eventually depending on how many people breed them and want them gone versus how many people are willing to buy.
Once stock runs out and more people want them, price goes up to $350, then 400. Then eventually it'll level out.

Pieds and Albinos have held their price the best versus how long they've been out. I've watched a hidden gene woma BP drop from $7k to under $5k in a few months. It's all on how many are out there and who wants to move what. Then when the price drops below what the price finally stabilizes at is because people are in a rush to get rid of stuff instead of holding onto it.

Say a person has 4 snakes that he paid $10,000 for the breeder, well he's asking $6,000 for each of the babies and he sees that morph sell for $5,000 well he may panic and sell his for under $5,000 to move them to make his money back immediately or try and that's how the market starts to crash. If people would hold on to their animals and not fall with the market then the price wouldn't drop nowhere near as fast as it does.

A good instance is Bamboo's right now are at what, $20,000? By mid next year they'll be half of that. Depending on if their selling babies or adults for that much. If it's babies then maybe not half that but say it'll drop to around $15,000. Especially if the males are ready to go. Your larger breeders will get that bamboo male and hook it up to several females and that increases the amount of bamboos he has and gives different morphs and that's when you start seeing a slight price drop.