What's New in the Hobby??

[Eric Alan]

See I've been away so IDK if that's something that's actually happened or not. Last time I was actually useful on this forum Scaleless was all the rage and Coral Glows/Bananas were selling for 10K a piece

Scaleless is still all the rage, and the Banana/Coral Glow thing was an anomaly. With the influence of the sex-linked clutches, and it being an incomplete dominant trait, more people than ever were able to pop out Banana/Coral Glow animals very quickly which saturated the market, causing the "free fall" of the prices. Everyone points to that as their reference when they talk about the bottom falling out of the entire BP market. I can understand the bitter taste seeing a morph drop from 5 figures to 3 in 2 years, but that doesn't mean the sky is falling. It was one characteristic of one morph. And, it doesn't take a genius to do some simple math and figure out that people are still profitable even at the price they sell for today.

In regards to the market as a whole: those that were profitable before, are still profitable now if they work to be. Those that were shots in the pan, will always be such. Those that want to succeed in this hobby (to whichever degree they work hard enough for), still have the ability to do so. It'll take more effort than before, but that's to be expected in any business which gains popularity as quickly as this hobby does.

EDIT: Oh yeah! Good to see you back!