I guess I will through in my 2 cents.

Expos are great for selling normal BRBs with a few het hypos in there as well. I always do really well just bring a few higher end animals (hypos, anery etc) with no intention of selling them. Bring a really nice red (or orange) adult that people can covet, then sell them a normal baby for $100. The high end and nicely colored animals will draw people in and they will buy your cheaper normal animal.

IMO there are way to many reptile expos now. We have 4 a year in ATL now, not to mention the surrounding areas. I think people aren’t as likely to buy when they know that there is going to be another opportunity in a few months. It’s also the same people every time, so they have already bought something from you. I can’t even count the number of people that will bring their BRBs to the shows just to show me how it is doing. Unfortunately our profits are down but the price of a table remains the same. However, as breeders we are to blame, as long as we keep buying tables the expo hosts (repticon for me) will keep scheduling shows.

The only people that I know are still making good money at the expos are the venders that offer huge selections of animals that are all below $100.

I have yet to ever post anything online for sale but I think I am going to start doing that very soon to try to move animals that are more than $100.

I truly believe that the ball python market has sparked these low baller’s (for lack of a better term). The ball python breeders are “breeding their market dry” and now people thing it is the norm to low-ball other breeders.

How’s that rant?
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John Wiseman
www.rainbowsbydesign.com

18.30 BRBs (as of 6-20-2012)
3.8 others

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