Prices down?

[Blue Apple Herps]

Welcome to the world of snakes. There are only so many buyers and yet many more people breeding. Unfortunately I think many of these people bought their spiders for $500 and a pastel for $300 a few years ago thinking they'd make a bunch of bees to sell at $1200 for an easy profit. However, that isn't the case. More stock = less demand = lower prices. Especially on single gene stuff that isn't that new (pastels, spiders, pins, etc).

And as others have said, some people just want to move their stock as fast as possible so they keep gutting prices.

Unfortunately, it's all nice and dandy to say you refuse to sell at the lower prices, but at some point you have to cut your losses. A snake is only worth what someone is willing to pay. If you disagree with that price, then you're going have that snake for a long long time. Just the way it goes.

The way it's going, double, triple, and even quad morphs are going to be the only things bringing in any decent price. I no longer have any normal females (except for my het pied breeder, who I will sell to make room for my female pied when she's up to size) so I don't get stuck with a bunch of normals and 1 gene animals. Sure I'll hatch some, but its greatly reduced by having all morph females.

I've thought for some time that the older single gene animals will become like amels and snows in corns where they will become so common their prices will be right a prices for normals.

Best thing to do is to figure out how to adapt to the market so you can keep pressing forward with your passion. Sitting back and complaining won't get you very far. I know it sucks, and I hear you, but we all have to adjust and move on.