Most purchases of savannah or nile monitors are impulse buys. Person walks into pet store, see's cool $20 lizard and walks out with it. If that same lizard had a $200 price tag, the impulse buys would become less frequent.

While you're correct that there are people who will abuse anything, the majority of the population take better care of things that they perceive as more valuable/costly.

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