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RE: OMG! What's with the Outrageous Prices!

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Posted by: FR at Wed Jun 5 15:16:56 2013   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by FR ]  
   

Hmmmmmm those are investment prices. They are not based on value, they are based on possible return.

Lets look at that. Buy a X morph at $10.000ea. Then it drops to $6000 grand the next year, then $4000 grand the second year. Your task was to produce, say 10 neonates and sell them for that $4000. Your cost was $20.000(pr) so you risked failure for an first return of $40,000. Then the following year, etc etc.

Of course, if these are many of those morphs and the price drops to next to nothing. You lose.

The truth is, that kind of money is rarely realized. What happens is, value. Trade value, so you may get some money and a number of reptiles to equal that value. Etc and so on and so forth.

Just like other investments like this, you are best served if you are the first one on the ladder, each rung below that, loses value. Cheers

   

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