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I was looking at sites and people want $5,000, $10,000 even $35,000! What makes them so high priced? So your telling just the simple color and pattern of a snake can make the snake cost 500 times as much.

go check out the corn snakes...you made a left..you should have made a right....you can afford those snakes.

1.0 Columbian
0.1 Suriname
0.1 Longicauda
1.0 Bolivian

I've spent over 2 grand on my boas so I wouldn't exactly call me "cheap".

i look at it like this say you you spend $1000 on a male pastel and $4000 on a female spider both animals add up to $5000 now when bred ,say you have a 25% chance of getting a bumblebee spider (my genetic probability may be off if so sorry someone will correct me im sure)
and u have 4 eggs id multiply that added total x 4 which gives you $20,000 which is still way less than what people charge but $38,000 for a bumblebee spider is a little steep in my opinion for the price of the animals that it took to make i think price should depend on genetic probability within reason

I hope i answered that ? correctly and objectivly

So are people just seeing it as an investment? I guess if you pay $30,000 for a bumble bee then sell the offspring you could make a nice profit. Not bad....not bad at all.

Not exactly what i meant,but yes,it does make for a nice investment.

Let's say there were only one hundred albinos in the world,and a thousand people wanted one...
This is where the prices actually come into play.
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Charles Glaspie

Doh...i thought your post was in response to mine...it's late...zzzzz
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Charles Glaspie

and there is a flip side to the story how many people can say omg i love that snake, how much, 30 grand, ok lemme get my checkbook not many, so the love of the actual morph comes into play also and alot of people take that 30 grand when they are fortunate enough to sell one that expensive and reinvest it in the newest hot item, now to me 30 grand is my sons college fund in 1 snake, a nice down payment on a house,hell retirement, cause who knows whats gonna happen with social security "THANKS GEORGE"

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Anthony Caponetto
www.ACreptiles.com

How many of you have actually sold a pair of "fire balls" for $100,000.00? Does the demand really exceed the supply at market prices that high? To put it in perspective, Afleet Alex, the horse that won the Preakness and Belmont Stakes was bought for $70,000.00. Wassup with that? And considering the number of people wrapped up in the morph craze, everybody seems like they're trying to hatch out bumble bees or something high priced. I just wonder if the prices and the boom are caused by people getting in to try to get rich and basicaly driving the market to feed off itself.

>>How many of you have actually sold a pair of "fire balls" for $100,000.00? Does the demand really exceed the supply at market prices that high? To put it in perspective, Afleet Alex, the horse that won the Preakness and Belmont Stakes was bought for $70,000.00. Wassup with that? And considering the number of people wrapped up in the morph craze, everybody seems like they're trying to hatch out bumble bees or something high priced. I just wonder if the prices and the boom are caused by people getting in to try to get rich and basicaly driving the market to feed off itself.

That seems to be the case... But doesn't it work out well that way??? The craze to make a buck expands the demand, which keeps the prices up there... I think it's a good thing, IMO.... I mean, the MORE morph people that enter the hobby each year, the longer a certain morph should hold it's value... Hypothetically, lets say one year there are 500 people that are into investment type animals, and 400 animals of a certain morph is produced, the babies would be reletively cheap since I'm sure there are at least 100 of the 500 that really aren't interested... But lets say the following year, 1000 new people enter the hobby and the same percentage of people want that same morph... This year there is 550 produced, and they start selling like hot cakes.... Uh oh, 250 people aren't gonna be able to purchase... People have the ability to raise their prices and still be able to sell. Now it's up to 550 out of that 800 to figure out what they are willing to pay for that animal... This was a long example of putting it short.. "Supply and demand"
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Joe Lydon
Got Boids?

1) Supply and demand...the more demand, the less supply, the higher the price (which tends to build even further demand.
2)Rarity...what commands the highest prices in this world ? The rarer things...like Michael Jordans ability to play basketball - very rare to be anywhere near that good, hence the high salarie. Diamonds are more rare then granite so it commands a higher price. How many of (you name the morph) have been found in the wild - only one in a lot of cases, only a few in others.
3)Perception...perception runs our economy and it runs our markets here for us too...if we thought the world was coming to an end the stock market would crash again. It's all about perception and which way people think something will go, like the prices of pork bellies due to the fact that there was record rain fall in Iowa this year for example. Or Piebald futures for example. If the morph buyers out there think something is worth $35,000 and it will be a good investment, then it keeps the price up because someone's paid it, and if someone paid it, maybe they know something I don't. In the end though what it's worth is what someone is willing to pay for it. But that is a "perception", someones opinion, or maybe we can call it a market speculation...a lot of this is highly speculation on a lot of peoples part. But just remember, if we don't like it, we can go back to $35 corn snakes !
Paul Edwards