All it takes is for some of these people who keep low balling the market to finally give up and decide they can't make any more money in a field to drive the prices back up. If you produce snakes and they don't sell for the price you want keep them. I have several friends who held back lots of sweet animals this year because they were not willing to give an animal away to make a quick buck. This year i may only have a few snakes for sale. I don't know what price i will put on them yet. I do know what a spider female will produce later. I do know that my females will not be sold for any less than what i am willing to sell them for. But i do know if I hold onto every animal i produce this year I won't be able to house those plus any 2010 offspring. So i will have to sell some. This means that i will have to sell them at or close 2 market price what ever that may be. I did see someone this year sell a cinny for 80 bucks. That does drive some people crazy but I did see it with my own eyes. The snake was skinny But it survived and the person who bought it I think resold it for more. I think quality is the question of the year. I think quality over quantity will win this year. I also see that some breeders may get out of breeding ball pythons due to the fact that there isn't enough money in it for them anymore. If it cost them more to feed there animals then what they make in sales of animals its only business to them. A true hobbiest will always try and breed on a limited basis. Maybe if all of us just cut back on production by 10 to 20% we could actually increase prices due to demand being higher. That is counting on everyone to do that though so it will never happen.