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shannon brown
at Tue Oct 11 03:32:46 2005 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by shannon brown ]
Terry,Good post and some really good points.
I would like to add some thoughts of my own.
You can take one good look at the end of the day and see that the market is saturated right now overall (not just hondos)cause one post will be a page and a half back.
This same time last year it would have only been at the bottom of the page at the most.But,Since we are talking about hondos and snows in Genral I will stay focust.
I had spoken in length months ago with many of my friends about this very thing happening.I believe that every new morph that comes out has its selling points and also has its levels of buyers.
First, you have the inovator or the peson that was lucky enough to hatch/import/buy/smugle/whatever the case may be to get the Morph in question off the ground and create his/her stock.
Once this is in place and they are avalible the first to buy of coarse are always the others that are into the same kind of sub-species or same kind of morphs.
This is were you will make your best money if done correctly (believe me)but this also can run dry depending on what kind of sub-species or morphs you are talking about?Imagine trying to market some amel Black Headed snakes or something like that?LOL......
Anyways,with the snows I think the level was pretty thick and ran pretty deep.I also know that not everybody could afford full blown snows so alot of them oppted for a snow and a anery het Amel and or a Amel het anery and a snow or some type of combo a couple years ago.Well,I think that by the end of last year that this level was pretty much filed up but nobody really new it for sure.I started to realize it when I started my ads early this year and only took orders for one snow?I had about five snows orders last year.Funny thing is that I still havn't produced one myself even though I have had the snakes to do it for five years.
Anyways,With that level filled were everybody that was willing to spend the large amounts of money over$1500.00ea(i.e."other breeders" then we had to drop to that second level.
You ask what that second level is.Well,That second level has always been the middle range level were most snakes are $500.00-1200.00 like ghosts tangerine albinos tri colored hypos etc.....
Well,As Tom indicated alot of the other morphs have fallen also and yes I don't think anybody expected the snows to fall like they have but it is what it is.There is no middle and there isn't a middle for alot of things anymore.
You would have thought that the snows would have landed softly at $1200.00ea and stayed there all year.........but this is Mr.Rodgers Niebor hood and I don't even see pairs fething this right now?Not by my choice mind you.I am in this Knee deep and plan on staying in it for years to come even if they are $50.00.
The other Key issue I see with the snow is that Yes,as adults they are stunning but we don't sell adults.I used to have this problem with Kunisurr Island Rats.They were born kinda ugly brown but turned into awesome aqua blua green adults.
No matter what color you paint a snow its still a snow.What I am trying to say is that Terry and others (Myself included )have been selling dbl-hets and Amels het anery and anerys het Amel for years now.So When you see a snow its the end product?No selling point?with the amels het anery and the anerys het amels you had selling points all day long.You could convince people (not to make it sound like its a bad thing here)that they were going to have a chance to produce a snow?
Even at a 1 in 16 odds with dbl-hets back in the days it was exciting.Now with the snows its the end product and yes they are killer looking but you know what you have and they are critical for producing other morphs.
What good would it do to produce a killer pinner snow or v.p. snow?That would be like producing a aberrant black milk?
Anyways,In short I think the will even out once the slide into the third level and thats the expo level.The expo level is the people lined up outside around the corner down the street holding the ticket with about $500.00 in there pocket just itching to get into the show to find that one killer snake that there one friend doesn't have yet in his collection?
Shannon
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Kurt,My Hamsters always got fed off?LOL........Anyways, - shannon brown, Tue Oct 11 03:32:46 2005