I think I agree with Ralph when he says that the fly-by-nighters are adding to the instability of the market. It makes sense. Some years ago the market was in its growth stage...few sellers many buyers...hight prices, huge profits...those profits cause entry in the market to occurr. That's where Jimmy comes in. Fast forward to 2006 and put the ball market in the "maturity stage" of an industry's life cycle, characterized by increased supply, market saturation, lots uncertainty...its just the normal way of things.

From my narrow point of view, I see the "quick money sellers" who are in it for a quick flip are going to be the first ones to get out. As all of these guys amass huge collections of co-doms and doms and get thier "ball mill" running, run into huge overhead and huge feeder bills, they find out that they'll actually have to do some marketing to sell their product, and they're going to find the juice not being worth the squeeze anymore as the supply increases and the price drops. Eventually, they'll be gone, and what you'll have left are the breeders who "do it right" and the hobbyists that do it for the love of it, and don't really *need* to sell anything to stay afloat. Those hobbyists might trade up for things that can't pay cash for, or wholesale their animals out to pay for feeders and supplies to make it a free hobby. Not a bad deal, IMHO.