The problem is not with the pricing - the problem is with the production - if there are only 20,000 people that will buy a pastel at $1000 and there are 50,000 pastels produced annually then there has been an overproduction so the only way to go is to the next pricing level and then to the next.



It's a catch 22 if you want to make a lot of money you really do need to breed less (and that means the entire industry). There are way too many snakes being produced for the market to hold. 100 clutches from one breeder of a single morph is eventually going to flood the market and drive prices down - they aren't going to hold back all those snakes and all the offspring from all those snakes forever. And the market is not expanding at a neverending rate.



We all know that those $20,000 snakes will be down to an afordable $5000 or $2500 in a matter of a few years - why buy now - to get a jump on the competition to breed a whole bunch before that price drop? Well that thinking is what causes the price drop in the first place.



The thought that if you hold onto them and sell them bigger you will make more money is ridiculous - unless you want to feed them until adult size and hope you can find that one person that in three years doesn't have an adult (insert name of whatever morph) for their project so you can sell it at 3 or 4 times the current market value or approximately the same price as it was as a hatchling.



And the idea that all of those new combinations being made will help hold a morphs price - who came up with this one? - Just because the pastel does 8 new combinations then it did last season that is going to drive the price up? Once people have the snakes they will work their way into their own projects on thier time - the only people in a hurry are the big breeders and those out for money.



In 10 years that $20,000 snake you bought last year will worth the same as the $5,000 snake. Unless of course you've bred it to death in which case my snake will be worth much more.



Now I'm rambling so I'm off to get my morning coffee!

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Tosha



"Nihil facimus sed id bene facimus"







6.34.0 Ball Python (Harry and Fluffy and gang)

1.0.0 Angolan Python (Anakin Skywalker)

0.0.1 Green Tree Python (Verdi)

0.1.0 Bredls Python (Smurfette)

0.2.0 Feline (Pippen and Pandora)

0.0.1 Desert Tortoise (Pope John Paul aka JP )

2.2.1 Fish (1,2,3,4)

0.0.0 frogs rescued from pool skimmer

0.0.1 Lizards of unknown origin





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Edited on May 3, 2006 at 17:08:13 by phwyvern.

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