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I hope this is ok to ask here but I just don't get how people price there snakes. I mean ok lets say I have a clutch hatch and the plan is to sell the baby's to the pet store or from a website or anything, How do you know what to sell them for? Clearly if you let to pet store set the price they are going to try to get it as cheep as they can and mark it up as much as they can so whats the deal? Look around at what others of the same morph go for and charge the same? How dose one properly set the price for a snake? Thanks a million.
Foot Hill Reptiles

...it all depends on who you are selling to.

If you are selling in a storefront or possibly at a show you can get premium prices because you are selling to the general public and they are coming to you to buy. That being said these profits are going to be offset by expenses in the form of overhead at a storefront or as table/booth price at the show. These prices really vary but can range from 100%-250% of 'breeder' price(the average price breeders are selling to public). Basically here is where the price gouging really occurs.

If you are selling online or by some other listing method where the public will be responding to your ad's/listings then you get the medium profit prices. Namely you charge what everyone else seems to be charging on their websites/listings. Best method here is to look up what major breeders are listing the types of snakes you are selling for on their webpages and sell for about the same.

If you are selling wholesale to petstores or largescale breeders then you have to haggle for whatever you can get. Keep in mind here that you are essentially paying them, in the form of less profit, for the convenience of not having to seek out people to buy the snakes and not having to feed the snakes until you can find a buyer. Many breeders I know and have known in the past would unload a certain percentage of their offspring wholesale every season as soon as they were ready to ship because it saved them enormous rodent expenses. From what I have heard/seen I believe that these prices tend to be arround 25-50% of 'breeder' price unless it is a really expensive type of reptile.

Hope this was helpful. If you want exact suggested price ranges I would talk to one of the proffessional breeders about your specific species/morph when you have the babies to get rid of.

Sean.
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Thank you that was a big help. I usually offer to pet stores and the public, The pet store price dose generally land at P of the publics price but now that I will no longer be selling to the pet store I need to find out how much these things are worth so I don't end up screwing myself by selling to cheep. luckily the pet store I sold to was awesome and good friends of mine and they were honest about what they pay for the snakes so I was able to get a fairly decent idea of what to sell to them at, Generally I would drop $5 off per snake from the average so in other words I would sell to them at $5 per snake less than anyone ells. I guess it dosnt sound to fair but they always purchased my snakes and I think at the same time it added to the competition of the local market, Then again I don't do this for a living so I could afford to undercut everyone ells LOL
Foot Hill Reptiles