I figure $60k for a new recessive morph could be a good investment. Pieds, caramels, etc are still going for $2.5k+. So if you had a new recessive morph male and bred it to a bunch of females and produced hets then bred those hets back to the male and made homozygous animals as well as hets; those would sell for a lot. Lavender albinos are going for $10k - so you figure that between selling hets and homozygous animals; it would be a breeze to recoup your investment. Plus you could cross it into all the other morphs before anyone else. So by the time others are offering it, you offer a pastel version, or a pinstripe version.

Now that being said, I don't think I could ever pay $60k for single snake; even if I had a zillion dollars... But that's just me.