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draybar
at Sat Apr 3 17:07:59 2010 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by draybar ]
>>Exactly how many chain stores have you visited around the country to see this change happening? Fact is most of the chain stores get thier animals from one or two sources who buy them from whomever they can get them from. SO, their is no telling how many diseases are running through the wholesalers stock. Sorry, but that is not a chance I want to take ever.
Just because someone sells excess snakes that does not mean they are unhealthy. It just means excess.
Who do you buy from? Only people you know personally and are able to inspect their collections?
Do you take chances and buy from unknowns at shows?
Same things can happen at shows or through internet sales.
Just saying...
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>>Secondly, you said it best, "we look out for number one, it is human nature", BUT, that is a discussion for another day, that is the whole problem, for the most part, we are not concerned with others well beings when we would all live much better lives if we did think of others before always acting.
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>>I am not concerened with $15-$25 albinos and other low end morphs, but when I pay $500 for an animal because it is new to the world. Then in less that 2-3 years some jack butt sells his babies for $150 and the market is affectively crashed at that point. Guess the lesson is that I should not pay high dollars and should just stop working with snakes because there are too many people with no true economical sense that are in the hobby now.
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>>If this offends anyone, then oh well.
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>>dc
that's the problem with a new morph. By the time it hits the market there are quite a few people that have what it takes to reproduce it, or will have soon enough.
I would never pay "entry" price for a morph. Mainly for the reason you stated...within a year or two it will be more common and much cheaper. You can't blame the person for selling it cheaper then the originals. Once it becomes common the price drops. If breeder "A" doesn't drop the price down below "new" price, breeder "B", "C", "D" and "E" will. It's the same in almost all markets. Look at electronics.
Just because someone sells a snake for $500.00 that doesn't mean everyone should.
You pay $500.00 each for a pair of snakes, breed them and get 20 babies you can obviously go lower and still make more then your investment back.
If "John's" product and your product are exactly the same and you are selling yours for $500.00, simple business sense tells "John" to sell his for less. He's still making more then it costs to produce them and gives him an advantage in the market.
Why is he "jack butt"?
Because he is undercutting you?
I guess you are right..you should not buy new, over priced morphs. And if you are only in it for the money you might as well get out all-together. Too hard to make it. Most of us are doing it because we enjoy the hobby and the animals.
By the way economic sense and hobby don't really work together. Economic sense and business, yes. Economic sense and hobby...no just doesn't fit..
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RE: Observations - draybar, Sat Apr 3 17:07:59 2010
