I believe a very large number of people on Kingsnake and other such forums are driven solely or mostly by profit. This does not mean that these (profit driven) people don’t care for their animals correctly. I tend to believe the overwhelming majority on this site care for snakes FAR better than your average hobbyist does. I think it’s great that people make lots and lots of money through hard work, risk and dedication, which is what the people who are making money here are all about.

What I do feel is unfair is if someone makes observations like:

Why would I want to purchase a 700 gram Pastel male for $800, when I can get a 300gram one @ $275 and have him ready to go with similar results.

Or:

Why would I want to pay $1300 for a Het. Pied female, which is going to take three years to be of breeding size (if she’s fertile and wants to breed), when I can get a breeder sized Het Pied male (or three) @ $150 per, start breeding right away, and in three years have the same or greater potential for Pieds.

I am not saying observations like these are correct, but they might be? It does seem to me, however, there is a clique present here, that I believe for profit and money reasons, doesn’t like threads like these to be posted and tries to make the poster feel ignorant, isolated and unwanted on this board.

Just my humble opinion.

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• True hobbyist question ? - medusah, Wed Sep 13 15:16:34 2006
• RE: True hobbyist question ? - RyanT, Wed Sep 13 15:35:14 2006
• RE: True hobbyist question ? - rwoodyer, Wed Sep 13 16:01:45 2006
• On that note... - RyanT, Wed Sep 13 16:08:34 2006
• RE: True hobbyist question ? - toshamc, Wed Sep 13 16:12:10 2006
• The profit clique - zefdin, Wed Sep 13 16:32:21 2006
• New morphs losing WOW factor already. - zefdin, Wed Sep 13 17:15:02 2006
• Can't stop - salemserpent, Wed Sep 13 21:10:38 2006
• RE: New morphs losing WOW factor already. - joshhutto, Wed Sep 13 22:16:17 2006
• n.p. - zefdin, Thu Sep 14 07:40:04 2006
• GREAT post - BrandonBoeke, Thu Sep 14 09:53:53 2006
• Beauty is as beauty does? - Anson, Thu Sep 14 11:25:25 2006
• RE: Beauty is as beauty does? - joshhutto, Thu Sep 14 13:39:50 2006
• Rape the wild...toss the 'normals' aside - zefdin, Thu Sep 14 15:06:22 2006
• Gentlemen, Gentlemen! - anson, Thu Sep 14 16:46:42 2006