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Does anyone know where i can find prices of different morphs over the past few years? For example, i would like to know what a pied went for in 2001, 2002, 2003 ect. I need these prices to project a value of my current collection down the road.

Just write down:

Year: 2015 EveryBallIOwn: $100 each

point made, but do you really think that my lavender albino piebald clowns will be worth $100?

Justin
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J. Kobylka Reptiles

Warning: Snakes have been shown to cause death in laboratory rats.

LOL - probably not - but in reality in a few years those will all be really cheap base morphs - the standard arsenal for BP breeders. What you'll be paying for will be odds and time - I'd guess 'bout $2-$3K for a triple threat. We will see.
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Tosha
JET Pythons

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actually I wouldn't be surprised if by then that snake was worth anywhere from $250-500. One of the problems with the bp market is that we have been targeting people to "invest" with the intent of breeding and making a profit. We have ignored the hobbyist and by doing so have hurt the market in general. Now everyone comes on here and they see a pastel and according to the mentallity that is on pretty much all forums they are supposed to breed it and then sale babies. I look forward to the days when morphs are priced on the looks of the animal. The idea now-a-days is that pastels are worth $X and so on. Well this shouldn't be the case. A person that selectively breeds their animals and produces screaming pastels that don't brown out should be able to get a premium for their animals not get the dreaded phone call "I like your snake better but you have to match breeder X's price for an inferior animal. I know of too many people out there that have racks of average to below average normals and they breed as many co-dom males to them as possible making average to below average morph animals. Once the huge bucks are out on these snakes the average hobbyist will buy them without hesitation. Remember when chondro's where selling for a grand, very few people bought them, now the imports sell for just a couple hundred bucks and the importers can't keep them in stock. This sucks for the breeder that produces cb babies and gets them established but that's the name of the game. But back to ball pythons, I know of several breeders with websites that are sitting on recessive morphs from 2 years ago that they can't sell and these lists have breeder co-doms that have been on these same online price list for years and the lists are up to date. Prices come down people will buy them, to the average hobbyist $2000 for an ivory is just way out of their range and the price for female yb's is still more than they are willing to pay. Ok that is my rant and I'm pretty sure it's all over the place and probably doesn't make sence but oh well.
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Josh & Krysty Hutto
J&K Reptiles

Various Ball Pythons, boas, dogs, cats, fish, an amel tiger retic female, a couple sulcatas and a few other odds and ends.

a BAD dog is MADE not bred, support the American Pit Bull Terrier as the greatest breed of dogs on Earth!!!!!

If you lavender albino piebald clowns, goes for $100, then send it my way. I will even may shipping. LOL.

LOL, that's when I'm going to start "investing" then
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1.0 pastel ball python
0.1 mojave ball python
0.1 normal ball python
0.2 3-toed box turtles
2.3 eastern box turtles
0.0.5 3-striped mud turtle
1.0 northern diamondback terrapin
2.1 tiger salamander
1.1 red-sided garter
1.0 anerythristic red-sided garter
1.1 Iowa snow plains garter
1.1 Het butter stripe cornsnake
0.1 anerythristic motley cornsnake
1.1 Blue garter (Puget Sound)

It sucks for people who are trying to make a living from it, but it would be awesome to see albinos/pied/spider make it into the affordable pet range of $100-200. I hate to say it, but most people get into reptiles when they are young if they are going to, and Mom would rather see the young'n buy a $40 corn snake then a $120 ball python... and even more so then a $2500 albino (which is what I saw them selling for when I was young and looked at a pet shop.) In fact, that $2500 albino ball python was the first snake I fell in love with, and I used to go to the pet shop 3 times a week just to look at it and watch it. I still have yet to own an albino, but I do have a 100% het. albino in the breeding range.

and about that time when I was young, I was told I could get a lizard because they were cheaper... and after dealing with that, I swore off reptiles for several years.
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1.0 100% het albino ball python (Junah)
0.1 normal Ball python (Alana)
01 50% het albino Retail Boa (Hitomi)

Supply and demand will tell you what the future holds for these old morphs as opposed to the newer, more popular morphs. I honestly do believe that there will always be the expensive, more high end morphs simply because of the combos that can be made and the undiscovered combos that we have yet to see. Lets hope for another hundred years of cool new herp stuff to come...

down that. It doesn't make a dadgum, there will always be people buying balls. Prices may be different, but they will sell. I agree that the quality of animals should determine the price. I also agree that there is no reason to breed a pastel or spider male to as many females as possible every year. I believe that if you rake are of your animals, they will take care of you. Other than that, I don't give a rat's @$$ about the value of the animals. I make a living doing something else, and the snakes are fun. Soon I will be breeding rats and will sell them to other snake owners and make more money to buy snakes.

Ask Ralph Davis if the market sucks, because there is a thread about this subject on his website and I guess the market has failed him to the tune of $800,000 since he began. He also said that he has sold more snakes this year than any other. I don't see people like him mass producing the co-doms. Maybe we should learn a lesson. If someone is successful, there might be a reason, and that would give a reason to emulate them.
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Happy Herping,
Jody Barnes
Royal Kreationz

My snakes aren't fat, they're big boned.

rake are = take care my bad
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Happy Herping,
Jody Barnes
Royal Kreationz

My snakes aren't fat, they're big boned.