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The owner of the local pet store where I go to college wants to let me work there only on these conditions. I work in just the reptile department which I like that idea, I buy all the reptiles myself and pay for there up keep and she will give me a place to put them and sell them and she will take 30% off the top of each sell. I am seriously thinking of doing this because I would love the money and the chance to kinda run my own business with reptiles. I really want to know if anyone knows a good place to order reptiles. Now I need a place that is not to expensive but is a decent place. I live in Troy, Alabama so somewhere close I figure would be best, meaning somewhere in the southeast. The types of animals I am looking at getting, if I do this, are corn snakes (albino, snow, and normal), ball pythons, water dragons, bearded dragons, vieled chameleons, leopard geckos, maybe some colombian red tails. But basically stuff like that, that is small for the most part and easy to take care of for the most part also. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I hope no one gets offended that I ask for help on this, I am always on these boards and I figured that this is the best place to find people like me but that would know this kinda stuff.

Sounds like a ideal situation if you were a reptile breeder and needed a place to sell your babies. However, if you buy your animals online for instance, you're already paying retail prices plus the cost of shipping. Shipping will kill you. If you could find a breeder in your area so you could avoid shipping, you might have a chance. Especially if you could partner with that breeder. Buy, hey, as long as you enjoy what you are doing, you can't really go wrong.

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1.1 Jungle Carpet Python
1.1 Ball Python
1.1 Corn Snake
0.1 Gray band Kingsnake
0.1 Desert Kingsnake
0.1 Pueblan Milksnake
1.0 Bullsnake
1.0 Rhodesian Ridgeback
0.1 Spouse
8 ball python eggs due any day now!

Make sure she is going to let you use her tax id number so you can deal with wholesalers. There are plenty listed here on kingsnake. Also I would recommend making the same deal with local breeders that she has made with you. Set up a deal with them where you display and sell their snakes and pay them only for the ones that have sold, or died on site. Put a time limit on the display so that you can rotate the stock. The more variety you have the better your business will be. I would also suggest that you get a commission on setups and supplies that's were most of the money will be made.