Quote Originally Posted by tttaylorrr View Post
that's just not true; it's supply and demand, as well as the cost of business. someone paid 7.5k each for the first pair of captive bred albinos in the 90s before any industry "boom;" with inflation that's at least 15k for a new in-demand recessive today, let alone accounting for the big breeders who ARE willing and able to drop that kind of $krilla PLUS on a possible new morph.

there's also the cost of that gamble on the breeder's part for others to own these animals.

the price comes from what people are willing to pay. don't be so naive.

Sorry, but a handful of breeders colluding to artificially manipulate the price of a morph is not really supply and demand like you are thinking. They just made it up hoping the win the snake lottery, but no one is going to drop that kind of "$krilla," especially the big breeders. They trade with each other, very rarely deal with large amounts of cash.

Extrapolating prices for a new morph today based on what 2 snakes originally sold for decades ago also doesn't work.