Tiny bit of background here, I was a BP breeder a few years ago, relatively small collection, 3 males 4 females, nothing big at all. Unfortunately, at the time I had a business partner, who actually introduced me to the whole idea of BP breeding. Sparing you guys the long story, things went south, two snakes died, we sold the other 5 and parted ways as business partners for good.

I'm finally in a living situation where I can consider having snakes again, and what better way to get awesome snakes than to breed them, help make the hobby self-sufficient or make some money along the way. Unfortunately, I don't have the cash to plunk down on the Designer snakes I like, or would need to make it to my end goals for gene combos. To this point I've just figured it will take a few years, no big deal, that's pretty standard, but in talking with a friend who does a lot of start-up/small business/angel investing, he brought up the idea of treating the snakes more similarly to a standard product, and getting money up front to speed things up by doing a crowdfunding/pre-selling campaign.

Apparently this is something he's worked with other companies on, and has had huge success, however he's never tried it with anything living, and certainly not with anything that has the genetic odds involved in ball python breeding, which I fully recognize up front, but it seems worth at least considering.

However, this raised the question in my mind, do any of you pre-sell snakes? Be it a specific gene/combo that someone is specifically after, or batches of normals, anything.