Quote Originally Posted by herpenthusiast View Post
I recently sold jungle boas on KS for double the price others had them advertised for, and they sold before the cheap ones. Why? Mine looked way nicer. There will always be people willing to pay for quality. People find a way to buy what they want even in this economy. Yeah, prices naturally go down as morphs become more common, but please don't produce more animals than you can sell for the normal market price. Don't drop your prices drastically just to make a quick sale. If you produce nice animals, people will want them and they will sell. If you produce ugly ones, not so much.
Right on. I recently bought a 1000g normal for $200 plus shipping because It will throw some killer mojaves for me in a year, if any of her pattern or color carries over. I could have got 2 or 3 cbb females of that size for around that price, and used them to hatch out 2-3x more mediocre mojaves to dump into the market, but she was a gorgeous snake so I was happy to pay more for her. I also paid $400 for my male pastel when they were going for about $200-$250, because he was a smoking example of a pastel. It was $400 because it was a package deal with a 2100g female. I didn't care for the female's color or pattern so I brought her to the local reptile show and gave her away to a mother and son who were about to buy a w.c adult. The list goes on, and the rewards are the killer hatchlings that they produce. It's all about quality.