What is the highest recorded purchase price for any reptile? I read a post online from 2005 saying that a lucy was 200k back then. When I read this I thought to myself, wow that’s a lot of money, well when I read prices like 20 or 30k I think the same thing but 200,000 is no comparison (200k investment in one animal seems to me almost like a pathological investment) ...I guess the market demand for new morphs hasn’t sustained. It seems that morph prices have fallen since then the highest I’ve seen is under 50k for something new. Are there any new morphs that sell for over 100,000? I honestly do not see the designer reptile industry as reliable and prices are extremely elastic. These animals have limited stable “equity”….. so for those who have worked in the industry for decades what are the traditional, current and predicted trends of the market economy?
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Most expensive reptile ever?
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I'm not sure what a "banana" is worth these days, but I know when it first hit the market, I heard numbers up around 100K!
Will Slough bought the original banana as a wild-caught import for $45. He has sold a few offspring for $50k (as well as doing a partial trade). I think I remember a retic being purchased for $100K. I also believe that is was Bob Clark who bought it as an import.
Tim
Third Eye
I was talking with Brian K. who owns the banana clown and he was saying if he sells any they will be 150K for banana's . . he paid 250K for his banana clown.
see,,I was told $125K for the banana clown.......
...also told $150K for the first Leucie......*(which turned out to actually be an Ivory then?)
.....I personally hate paying $1K for a snake......
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Gawd
My question is where do these people get the capital to purchase such expensive morphs? bank loans , second mortages on their houses, rich realtives where do you get the capital? I get capital for my hobby/business by taking out personal bank loans but 100 grand or above wow , I am just going to have to wait for the hets to be produced from these beautiful morphs or wait to hit the lottery.
yeah.....good luck with that.
Brandon Osborne
no snake worth that...........not even a blue and purple ball with polka-dots AND a full genetic stripe.......
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What the hell do you know "Spuggles"?
With a screen name like that, you must live in Hinkley.
I must be Gone now, Sir
Numerous Ball morphs back when things were booming hit records over $75K but way before hitting the public. The Banana project is selling high now, the only morph I have ever seen advertised on the open market that anyone could bid on was a black-eyed Lucy for $200K in '05.
I heard a rumor of $250k being the record, and it was for a ball.
I know of a few things underway with some other reptile species that are looking at high bids of $75k for a one of a kind animal.
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There was offered a lucy ball in Hamm/Germany in september 2005 for 145K Euros. This means almost $ 190K today.
I forget which site it was on. I saw the worlds only Leusistic Savana Nile Monitor( I could be wrong, it was a very big lizard 7-8feet) along with 3 female hets for $1,000,000. Don't know if it ever sold but thats a buttload of money.
