Question: does a website such as this serve to drive down prices?
I don't breed, but I do like seeing what's available and for what it's selling for. In a site such as this, when two or three breeders are selling essentially the same/similar snake, wouldn't the logical thing for the breeder to do be to offer theirs for less than the competition, driving down prices ultimately?
Case in point: there is a beautiful little vanilla on there; it's selling for less than normals. Seems to me that vanilla could sell for more. If I was selling a vanilla, I think I'd be a little ticked that I am selling it for whatever the price should be (certainly at least more than a normal), but it's unlikely mine will sell when the one out there already is less (maybe a lot less).
I love free market, but the benefit is for the buyer, not the seller. I would think the largest breeder would just step in, undercut the market for pastels or cinnamons or mojaves or whatever. I can't see how something like this helps sellers.
I don't know, maybe the profit margins are made up on the shipping charges, which practically no one publishes?
