Why would new strategies ever be a bad thing, as long as you are honest in your ads?

I used to be licensed to sell exotic mammals, and have watched numerous markets over the years (ostrich, rhea, emu, pot-belly pigs, hedgehogs, etc.) come and go. Each influx of investing was met with associations and co-ops forming, etc., and many studies of market projections followed....none of which accurately predicted the inevitable "crashes." Projections were soundly based on known marketing principles and accurate numbers....but, it's not what an investment is logically expected to do that is the reason for crashes. When it's a "breeder's market" and the product sells with no real effort things are great, but the average investor has no skill in salesmanship; at the first necessity of putting forth effort other than selling everything at once through an exotics auction occurred in those other markets "investors" started dumping to find the next easy-money thing to invest in. We are hitting a similar milestone in the US with several boa morphs now that they are common enough to have competition and I expect similar results. The common morphs are being over-produced with no effort to find new markets or new marketing strategies. The exporters are cleaning up on our reluctance to put forth a real effort.

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