I agree with Bill. Its a measurable overhead and if you send out a bunch of boxes in a season it gets quite costly. As far as the cornsnake comparison goes I dont think you can really make your case. I spent over $3000.00 on a pair of Opal Motleys last season(the male died a month or two later BTW). That is alot of money for cornsnakes. Rich Zuchowski didnt let me off the hook with the shipping. Why? Because its a business. As far as seeing a snow in petco, you may be a little behind the times when it comes to corns. Snows have been around for a few decades at this point. I'm fairly confident you wont see a Striped Lavender or an Opal Stripe(at least you wont see any of mine there, LOL) at Petco or any other petstore for that matter. The cornsnake market crashes quickly mostly because the snakes reproduce in 18 months and they lay alot of eggs each season pure and simple. You can put a male corn on 10 females and he will get the job done for you. The pair of snakes you just spent $3000 on in 18 mos will pop out $500 babies. Now thats still a worthwhile purchase in my opinion because you still will profit from the purchase but you can see how quickly they "depreciate" if you will. I dont know the boa market real well yet but I know the corns like the back of my hand and you cant compare the two at all. Just my 45 cents. Thanks PS. Sorry about the corn photo, I just had to.

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