Quote Originally Posted by StillBP View Post
The problem here is the if you sell a $300 snake at $250 then I mark mine at $200 someone else does$175.so you go $150 Now that becomes the standard price everyone starts using because someone sold one. so we have essentially cut the value in half in a few days. The price will not go back up because of the amount of people producing the same morph. It will only go down more. And this is why a exemplary example of a pastel can be bought for next to nothing. Too many people looking for the cheapest snake instead of the best example. And too many breeders willing to sell for whatever they can get. This is why I only have exceptional examples of the morphs I want to breed. And all lower quality animal will be found pet homes not sold to someone looking to breed
Yes. This is the "problem". Any fool can breed ball pythons and stuff ends up being bred that probably should not. The buyer also has a lot to do with this. I have found when the seller turns into the buyer their principles tend to change. I talk a hard line about free market, but privately I have principles. You can correlate the undercutters to Walmart. Anyone that has studied economics or runs a business knows that the way Walmart does business is detrimental to everyone but Walmart. I refuse to shop there on principle. I will go pay more somewhere else. There are not many people that will voluntarily pay more for anything. In reality how many people know a quality snake from a non quality snake? Most of even the most experienced among us cannot even tell certain combos apart. I include myself in this. Compound that with quality is individual taste when buying something on solely how it looks.

If you want to keep prices at a reasonable rates, you cannot price fix. What can be done has not been done. A quality gauge must be established that everyone can agree on. Accurate descriptions must be created for every morph and the definition of a perfect example must be written so that a quality gauge can be established for an individual animal. This would be a very difficult task in itself. Getting breeders to agree and participate would be even more difficult. Kinda like herding cats I imagine. I know this system works. I offer to create the infrastructure and coordinate it. How many want to participate? I am betting not many if any. I would bet Brian, Kevin and the other biggies would want nothing to do with this because they are used to controlling the market. Anyone want to go head to head with them? Most probably not.

Long story short, don't complain, fix, otherwise we are all just Walmart shoppers.