Hey,

Yes I think I am noticing what you see. What I see is a lot of snakes around 800 to 1000 grams for sale. I am also seeing a lot of small collections for sale. Like around 15 to 20 snakes. I think a lot of people bought snakes and have raised them up for 2 to 3 years now and very little money has been made on them and they panic and sell off their snakes. They thought they would make a ton of money and as we all see now the money is only made by the people that made this hobby what it is today. I am at 16 snakes and in full production mode. I could easily see myself selling off in a year or two if I do not start making some money back or seeing some solid clutches. Look what pastels are doing right now. Even the nice ones are being sold for nothing. If you want to make any serious money you better have a pastel het for something or forget it. The unfortunate part is that even if you have the cool double gene snakes no one has any money to buy them for what they are actually worth. The other thing that is weird is breeders are putting up really nice snakes for a lot lower prices. But what ever their asking price is I offer usually about 100 bucks less and they will not budge. Than after about a month goes by they lower the price to lower than what I actually offered. We definitely need to think about how we negotiate. We really put a lot of emotion into our snakes but need to realize that a sale is a sale. I guess I am lucky to have a great job and I am able to do this as a hobby. I love it and I would be in trouble right now if this was my only source of money. I think people are scared of our government too. Too many bills coming our way to take away the pets we love.

Regards,
Bill

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