very well said and I totally agreeOriginally Posted by elevatethis
My take on the relationship between the prices of combos and single gene mutations is that the higher prices of the combos encourage buyers to purchase the ingredients to them instead of the combo itself. I don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing. I guess it depends who you ask...a professional breeder or a hobbyist on a budget looking to simply own a beautiful animal.
On one hand it encourages buyers to purchase stock to begin producing snakes themselves, and on the other hand you now have a situation where everyone and their brother are shooting for crosses like, for example, pastels and spiders to create bumblebees...and now you have a flood of animals on the market the drives the price of the single co-doms way down, as we've seen in the past few years. I'm sure other mutations will follow the same course.
Moreover, the fact of the matter is that the buyers that will support the ball market in its maturity phase don't care that it took 1 in 16 odds (it doesn't add any value in their minds) to produce a certain animal, they only care that they themselves aren't willing to spend thousands of dollars for a pet snake. Until then, the combo market will remain a breeder-to-breeder type of thing until the prices of them drop low enough to be obtained by the average hobbyist, at which point they'll stabilize. That point will likely fall in the <$1000 range.
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