Quote Originally Posted by BALLISTIC BOAS
The only peps that do not want lower prices and are fighting are greedy breeders who only care about their own bank accounts and disguies it as PROTECTING THERE INVESTMENT.
That is total cr@p.

First of all, I'm not a "pep", I am a person ... grow up and speak English!

Second ... Anyone, and I mean anyone that is breeding and selling investment animals or that plans to breed and sell investment animals should (if they are even reasonably intelligent) not want lower prices. If you are taking money from a customer for an investment animal and you are not doing what you can to support the market for that customer than you are a crook.

Personally, I am at a point where I could not care less what the market does ... I have an AMAZING collection of big $$$ ball pythons ... I've made a TON of money on the ball python market ... if it all ended tomorrow I'd be up well over 5000% of my initial investment over 10 years ... to put it simply, I won ... there is NOTHING that I need to be "greedy" about.

So why do I care about prices you ask? .... For my customers ... Over the last ten years I've sold to hundreds, maybe even over one thousand people ... good people ... teachers, electricians, housewives, computer consultants .... not big breeders, but "little guys/gals" just getting started .... people with kids, homes, families ... they gave me money for snakes that I produced and almost every single one of them did so with the intention of breeding those snakes and making some type of return on their investment ... They could have invested their hard earned dollars in real estate, or the stock market, or CD's, but their passion for animals drove them to ball pythons, and they trusted me with their investment money .... I don't know about other people, but I personally want to see EVERY SINGLE ONE of my customers make money from the animals that I sold them and do so for as long as possible. I take it as a personal responsibility to do everything I can to make sure they do so ... and if that means standing on top of a table at the Daytona expo and yelling at the top of my lungs about support the market, then that is what I'll do.

What the idiots that are selling for less (or buying for less) don't care about is the little guys ... the people that are just getting started .... the price droppers want to make their money as fast as they can and get out ... I'd rather see my customers making good money for the next 25+ years! This thing doesn't have to be a race to the bottom ... it could be a marathon where EVERYONE gets a chance to build a nice collection of animals and put money in their pockets … but unfortunately, many idiots are too impatient, too immature, and not business savvy enough to know how to get it done right.

It makes me sick to see people that are calling themselves "breeders" celebrating low prices and getting excited about how fast we can see this thing hit the bottom .... What do you tell your customers? Give me your money and good luck with your investment - HA HA HA? Well in my opinion, you're a @ss.

This "peps" doesn't want lower prices and it has nothing to do with greed ... it has everything to do with doing the right thing by the people that trusted me with their hard earned investment dollars.

Cry all you want about what everyone else “out there” is doing … if you’re giving them your money, you’re guilty too.

-adam