Sitting here on my lap top in a truck stop last night posting this " half pooped " I probably could have worded some things a little different. There are definately alot of small and some large issues that are causing the decline in the market and that is why I hoped to receive everyones opinion on this and would love to hear yours Gus.I just believe, " personally " that our desires to buy cheap imports will continue to cause the main demise of the market and like I said; " I am guilty of this also. " Competition with other breeders, is not that great. Breeders come and breeders go and some stick around forever and go through the good times and the bad times. This Hobby has always had a way of " weeding the ones in it for the wrong reasons out of it. " Impatience, is also something that has hurt the market. A number of herpers do not want to take the time to raise babies anymore. They would rather buy adults and try their hand at breeding more quickly. It is a vicious cycle; " Some do not want to raise babies, but they want to have babies and hope that everyone buys theirs? " To sum it up once more; " In my opinion, if we stop buying imports, we will have more control over the price of our animals a

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• The " MARKET "................more - madisonrecords, Sun Jan 9 23:26:49 2005
• RE: The " MARKET "................more - bthacker, Sun Jan 9 23:53:57 2005
• RE: The " MARKET "................more - PBM, Mon Jan 10 00:22:49 2005
• Well.... - bthacker, Mon Jan 10 00:51:57 2005
• RE: Well.... - PBM, Mon Jan 10 07:45:54 2005
• RE: The " MARKET "................more - dwedeking, Mon Jan 10 09:06:45 2005
• Clear cut logical explanation...(straight from my economic - robertmcphee, Mon Jan 10 21:17:52 2005
• Not sure how that smiley got in there....but oh well np - robertmcphee, Mon Jan 10 21:19:05 2005
• John! I very strongly.............................................................. - RioBravoReptiles, Mon Jan 10 09:41:14 2005
• RE: John! I very strongly.............................................................. - sslonestar, Mon Jan 10 11:24:19 2005
• RE: John! I very strongly.............................................................. - madisonrecords, Mon Jan 10 12:25:27 2005
• Ooops!........ - madisonrecords, Mon Jan 10 12:32:56 2005
• RE: Question..... - ajfreptiles, Mon Jan 10 13:01:18 2005
• RE: My opinion...... - ajfreptiles, Mon Jan 10 13:04:16 2005
• RE: My opinion...... - Phi, Mon Jan 10 13:47:40 2005
• RE: The " MARKET "................more - tcdrover, Mon Jan 10 10:12:03 2005
• Gus...please share your thoughts - bthacker, Mon Jan 10 10:37:13 2005
• RE: The " MARKET "................more - ajfreptiles, Mon Jan 10 14:11:20 2005
• The issue is.... - bigdnutz, Mon Jan 10 14:14:07 2005
• I know I don't want that boa morph...... - PBM, Mon Jan 10 14:26:22 2005
• The picture is OT... - bigdnutz, Mon Jan 10 14:42:03 2005
• The market for boas will always be stronger than most snakes.. - dmac, Mon Jan 10 18:37:38 2005
• Look at the dark side....30 years from now....Long and rambling - LordDreyfus, Tue Jan 11 10:52:40 2005
• you are so wrong it is not funny - M n R-Reptile, Tue Jan 11 11:57:22 2005