Is the high price market dying?

[mricyfire]

I have been looking around at some snakes and it makes me wonder....

http://market.kingsnake.com/detail.php?cat=32&de=540280

Selling it for $30000 curious as to why anyone would pay that esp then they can get an adult female pastel for like $1000 and a male fire for like $2000.

Do you think the prices are getting ridiculously inflated to a point where they aren't being purchased anymore (which hurts the market)...Since I have been on here I have seen more people just make the morphs they want instead of buying them.

[WingedWolfPsion]

I think that particular snake is priced way out of line, but I can understand why SOME snakes might go for that.

[mricyfire]

I agree I can understand the ones that not many know the genetics behind...like some that were at Daytona this year. But i have been seeing a lot of basic combos going for oodles of money.

[xdeus]

I think the days of high priced Balls are coming to an end. There are a lot of rare ones, but I think one of the "problems" is that there are SO many to choose from now. I think supply and demand also applies to variety as well as the supply of a particular morph. When there were only a handful of Ball morphs such as pastel, albino, ghost, and pied people could ask and receive a large sum of money for those or any new morphs that came to market. But now that there's a plethora of morphs and combos to choose from, I don't see people risking a large investment on a morph or morph combo especially a simple double codom like the fire pastel.

[jkobylka]

I don't think we are in for a sudden collapse of the current market. I do think it will continue its current trend until there will be few bps that can command more than 5-10k and nearly every morphs will be under 1k each, with most under $500

Justin

[crystalp705]

Holy crap! $30,000 is a little out of line.....

[JLC]

I don't think it's "out of line." What I do think is that the guy is not going to get that much money for it...or anywhere close to it. But it's HIS choice what price he wants to set. And it's our choice to maybe give a little laugh, shake our heads, and move on to the next deal.

I don't think one guy's poor choice of pricing is an indicator of the ball python market as a whole.

[J.Vandegrift]

Holy crap! $30,000 is a little out of line.....

Only if you consider 25k overpriced out of line.

[Gooseman]

I don't think it's "out of line." What I do think is that the guy is not going to get that much money for it...or anywhere close to it. But it's HIS choice what price he wants to set. And it's our choice to maybe give a little laugh, shake our heads, and move on to the next deal.

I don't think one guy's poor choice of pricing is an indicator of the ball python market as a whole.

Well said Judy.

When push comes to shove that guy will probably end up selling it for considerably less money, because any of the snake breeders capable of spending that kinda cash on a snake, would know that a fire pastel for 30g is not a wise decision...

[J.Vandegrift]

I don't think we are in for a sudden collapse of the current market. I do think it will continue its current trend until there will be few bps that can command more than 5-10k and nearly every morphs will be under 1k each, with most under $500

Justin

I think that is exactly right. The only somewhat common morph that I think will really hold on for a long time before going below 1k is the pied which is why I plan on never selling a female pied.