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View Poll Results: How much would you pay for a ball python morph?
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Re: How much would you pay for a ball python morph?
$100 or less. I haven't been in this long enough for the pricey varieties to be appealing yet
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BPnet Veteran
Re: How much would you pay for a ball python morph?
I might pay up to 1000.00 but beyond that I couldn't ever justify paying simply because of how their colorations and patterns have come out. In reality $1k is pretty pricey in my mind too
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BPnet Veteran
Re: How much would you pay for a ball python morph?
I'd go $1-$2K on a really nice base morph like a lav albino - maybe up to $4-6 to get in early on a cool designer like the Crystal.
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Re: How much would you pay for a ball python morph?
 Originally Posted by bsd13
I might pay up to 1000.00 but beyond that I couldn't ever justify paying simply because of how their colorations and patterns have come out. In reality $1k is pretty pricey in my mind too
But it is not just about appearance. It is about future profit off of the snake's offspring. If it were based merely on appearance, I would not justify spending high $$ on snakes either! But think of what you could produce by breeding morphs.. they likely will pay for themselves through the years if you do it right.
-Jen. Back in the hobby after a hiatus!
Ball pythons:
0.1 normal; 1.1 albino. 1.0 pied; 0.1 het pied; 1.0 banana.
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Registered User
Re: How much would you pay for a ball python morph?
What would I pay? Hard to say it matters on what it is and when.
what have I paid. Shoot I have no clue but some of the animals I have I am not allowed to say what I paid lol.
Gotta keep the friends happy too.
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BPnet Veteran
Re: How much would you pay for a ball python morph?
the most I would pay would be $5000 and that is for an adult that I knew I could breed back that same year and if I could double my money on the offspring. If you spend any amount of money on a morph it seems that with in 2-3 years that animal will have gone done by at least half with in reason. Obviously recessive genes hold there price better and dominate genes usually drop quicker so that also play a factor if I was deciding to drop some scratch like that.
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Registered User
Re: How much would you pay for a ball python morph?
I would pay whatever it takes as long as I am happy in the end. I always regret big purchases I make, if I don't need it, simply because I am on a low income until I get out of school. Now, if I had a sugar daddy, or a wealthy husband, or won the lottery I might consider being a little less cautious.
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BPnet Veteran
Re: How much would you pay for a ball python morph?
 Originally Posted by FL0OD
If you spend any amount of money on a morph it seems that with in 2-3 years that animal will have gone done by at least half with in reason.
This is a self-solving problem in the BP industry though, since there are two points where a morph can be priced excessively high; when it is first discovered (early adopters) and when it is mixed with two or more other morphs (extreme designers). By buying in early, you have a choice of using that animal to produce large numbers of identical offspring, effectively driving your own market downward, or you can start the mixing process, and have killer designers that hold their value due to being available in extremely limited numbers.
The Earth is the cradle of mankind, but one cannot live in the cradle forever. -Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

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Re: How much would you pay for a ball python morph?
Right now I can only imagine paying up to about 2000, but that's because I specifically want a pewter
1.0 Spouse Stephen
0.1 Normal BP Ulitakiwa aka Uli

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