I don't know what everyone else experiences are, but there's a video on Markus Jayne's youtube channel and he claims that while selling the thousand and up animals is nice, the bulk of his profit that keeps his business running are the $100-$500 morphs. Your pieds, enchies, fires, the classics that everyone recognizes and wants even if they've been around for ages. To me that suggests there is still very much a large pet market of people who want a cool looking animal but aren't willing to invest thousands of dollars into it.