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RE: A thought about the market.

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Posted by: JGEORGE at Fri Jan 6 17:50:08 2012   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by JGEORGE ]  
   

As a "new guy" to the forums I'll say that to me the BP community and the Lampropeltis community seems to be apples and oranges. I don't follow the BP forums but I do know how I feel about this community. I don't breed or sell snakes so I don't know about the sellers market but I try do my part as a buyer as money permits LOL.

It seems that this community develops into very specialized and often quirky groups that are most definitely passionate about the animals they keep. There seem to be a lot of field herpers, naturalists, and photographers. The conversation often deals with field herping, local finds, personal field observations, natural histories....etc. I really enjoy that part of this community. It would seem that a person who was drawn to that part of the hobby would be more drawn to the Lampropeltis or colubrid community.

I noticed that when bad threads appear on the BOI it often involves BPs and sellers who misrepresent and flip animals without regard for the animals or the buyers. This may be due to the fact that there are a lot of BP transactions taking place but I bet it has more to do with the fact that it's easier to make a buck flipping BPs that locale milks. LOL

On a side note: The first thing that came to mind with this was cornsnakes. They are available in a million and one morphs are easy to care for and seem to have a big following. So it would seem that if a person was looking at kings or milks and was turned off by talk of locale or such the next step in my mind would be to look at corns. What has happened to them?

   

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