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Watever
at Sun Aug 8 15:09:42 2010 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Watever ]
75$ minus 35$ mean, you sell for 40$.
The thing here, will you be able to sell them for 75$ (before shipping) or you will need to keep them ?
If you keep them, you need to pay their food, the electricity, rack tubs etc.. for theses. Is it going to be worth it to keep them longer until you can sell them (if you ever can) ? Or you better cut back on your profit ?
I can even see that breeding some clutch would result in losing some money on some of the offspring to make money on another offspring.
If you breed a Pastel Lesser to a Pastel. You will probably hatch out some normals and pastels that are not worth as much as a pastel lesser or a super pastel lesser.
You are aiming at producing super pastel lesser cause they are worth the most. So if you make a profit of 1000$ on that particular snake, you might not care to have loss 50$ on producing the pastel or normals.
I think people need to take financial course and put the value of the snake accordingly. But it's not easy.
What's the value of a particular snake. On how long do you put it's depreciation value ? I try to use a margin of 5 years even if I know that in 10 years it's still should be worth something, but this is an "extra" in my head. I will of course consider the expense on a 10 year life at least.
The depreciation value of a male is not the same as a female too. I would consider the male to be worth 0$ in 5 years but the female be worth a 10-20% value of it's birth/purchase price.
Then you also ahve to consider the money for food, electricity etc.. etc...
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RE: Pricing my Ball Pythons. - Watever, Sun Aug 8 15:09:42 2010
