What you mention, sales being slow and lowball offers are becoming more and more common at shows. With the internet serious buyers can and do shop online where they can find a large variety of individual animals to choose from. At shows there are many more species available but much fewer individuals of each. Funny thing was at my last show I was pulling animals off the table to fill internet orders at full asking price. In some cases the exact same animals I had people offering me way less than asking price.

What I see at the shows are more of the impulse buyers and serious local buyers that come straight to my table to be able to pick out and take delivery in person over ordering online via pictures.

The shows are still a lot of fun but not huge money makers like I hear they were in the distant past before the internet.

Sorry to hear you lost your big hypo girl. Unfortunately a reality of breeding. Glad you are back on track with some new acquisitions.
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Thanks,


Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com



0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)

LOL, to many snakes to list, last count (02/01/2010):
42.61 BRB
27.40 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

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