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What's up with these prices. 2 weeks ago I saw 1.3 corkbarks for $550, 3 weeks ago I saw them for $150 each. Today I see a pair for $550. The price range is suspiciously very wide. Have the prices the importers are paying increased that much, or are they just using this Cites thing to gouge?
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Derek Moynihan
Fat, Flat Lizard Ranch

certain people are trying to get way more out of the animals than they pay for them. i would safely say the prices for importers had close to doubled from the place that i usually get mine from, they went from 35-50 ( for the different species) about 10 months ago, to 55-75 ( and ranging from 75-150 for corkbarks) they sell out of all uroplatus within a matter of 2-3 days. 100 dollars is a fair price for a very healthy, good colored import that you trust the seller or can get good feedback.
i've seen several pretty good deals on cb uroplatus ( from neil meister) and a couple of other people on the classifieds recently. just make sure if you're buying satanics they're atleast 3-4 months old. otherwise you're going to have some VERY tiny geckos.

I was at a show today and saw some Uroplatus for ok prices, U.ebenaui $125 ea. for males and females, and $135 ea. for clouded U.sikorae, and 135 for U.fimbriatus. I think that there are some importers out there trying to get as much as they can from the Uros. but that's the trade I guess. Nothing you can really do.
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Leland
"Captive Bred Geckos from Around the World"
www.dwgeckos.com

sucks for you guys! when i went to the show at the end of last month, i found a guy selling sikorae, lineatus, and fimbriatus for $50 a piece. of course thats where i snatched up my pair of sikorae. there was another guy at the show trying to sell sikorae for $200 a pair, but i did get a very nice henkeli from him (although dehydrated) for $80. i got real lucky there, i didnt even expect to see any uroplatus at all!

anyway, as far as the price on pietschmanni, i noticed the price as well. like others have said, prices have gone a bit wild since the whole CITES appendix II was mentioned, but theres still a few people out there selling them at normal prices. i have a trio, and i got a female from russ gurley for $150 and later i found a pair at the local reptile show for $200. so i would say $100 to $150 a piece WAS the normal price. i woulda grabbed a male while that ad was up for $150 a piece from reptile depot, but i recently spent a lot and couldnt afford it at the moment. i still need a male, but im not gonna pay anything near $550 plus shipping for a pair, unless it was an unrelated, young but sexed, and CB pair. even then i dont think it would even cost that much from neil meister, but i dont think hes selling any of those at the moment anyway. they'll pop up here and there, so i say do like i've been doing for a while now, just sit and wait for the right deal to come up.

almost all of the adds in the classifieds are crap, but like i said, the place i usually get mine from are 50-65 for satanic, ebenaui, sikorae, lineatus, and fimbriatus. only downside is they sell out REAL fast.

I charge depending on quantity recieved, and rarity. Corkbarks are supposedly being shut down in three to four months as were henkeli.
Atleast for this year.
I sold a 1.3 group of Corkbaks for 550.00 which was a very decent price and I am actually kicking myself for selliing them that cheap, that averages to about 137.00 a gecko....
The corkbarks will bring alot more money now than ever, and it is becuase of the rumor of not being able to get them anymore in a few months and because of the remote little area they are found along with the CITIES listing.
Also I am being charged double if not a little more than I used to pay for them straight from Madagascar.
500.00 a pair, seems to steep though , I think a fair price considering the factors would be 300-350.00 a pair from now on.
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"Quality isn't Quality without customer service so I guess I sell quality"

Thanks for all the input guys. I wonder if the quotas for pietschmanni have already been filled for this season. I know Reptile Depot got a shipment of Uros last week and they did not get any corkbarks.
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Derek Moynihan
Fat, Flat Lizard Ranch