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wlinville
at Tue Nov 29 00:03:10 2005 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by wlinville ]
Some breeders say they dont care if they sell all of their "insert morph here" this year they will keep them and they only become more valuble. I have been looking for some time now and would just like an example of a ball morph that the offspring from 2003 is worth more now as an adult than it was in 2003 as a baby, of course excluding extreme morphs such as lucys and lessers. I have seen people asking $3000 and $4000 for adult female pastels... thats how much they cost as babies in 03... every one I look at is still in the same ball park as it was when it was born. Now perhaps the misconception comes in that you can pick up a female pastel 05 baby for $800 right now and so an adult at $3000 is worth more... but not if you had sold it 2 years ago for say $2500.
Then a side thought... if you hold on to that baby and raise it up you are in effect not freeing up capital which can be reinvested for which to diversify your ball python ventures, be it with a differnt blood line or differnt morph. If you had traded that female pastel in 03 for a female het pied insted of having an adult pastel which you raised for profit (this is of course assuming you are only keeping it because its value goes up with time) and then can perhaps sell to buy a $3000 adult het pied... but I would have to wounder why someone is selling an adult female morph... will not not ovulate... not eat...??? All that could have been solved by just selling that offspring the year it was born and reinvesting in something else.
Maybe I am looking at it the wrong way... maybe I dont understand something. Thats why I am making this post. If you se something I dont, please let me know, as I dont want to make the mistake of selling all my babies off, buy a new morph and then kick my self later.
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 Is it worth it to hang on? - wlinville, Tue Nov 29 00:03:10 2005
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