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RE: Pricing my Ball Pythons.

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Posted by: RandyRemington at Sat Aug 7 10:33:12 2010   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by RandyRemington ]  
   

Ultimately they are worth whatever the seller is willing to part with them for and what the buyer is willing to spend. I've only produced one female chocolate this year so she is worth more than the going price to me as a keeper. Now if I hatch other females I like better in my remaining clutches I would be willing to sell her for less. Your triple het male is an extra for you so you are willing to sell him at a price that tempts me because he could replace three males here.

IMHO the lower prices are in no small part due to the huge number of alternatives. A new morph may be very nice and still rare enough to be expensive but they have to compete with well established very nice morphs that are already plentiful. In the early 90's there where no inexpensive ball morphs to compete with. Basically we victims of our own success at producing large quantities and huge varieties of really nice ball python morphs. High prices spurred the hard work and creativity needed for great production. If they had all started out at the current prices there would be a lot fewer ball python morphs to go around now as people wouldn’t have worked so hard to produce them.

   

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