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DBall, I think you missed my point...
yungair23 made a hypothetical statment. I correctly realized that when someone says "If I had a million dollars" that generally means that they probably won't any time soon. This person also started out with "Why do they make them so pricey?" before typing out their hypothetical plan. I was attempting to answer that question while pointing out why such a plan would be WORSE in my opinion than snakes being expensive... It's because People gotta Eat.
I am really unsure where your point about inbreeding came from. I re-read both of my posts and I don't believe that I mentioned it. Since this thread is about a newly discovered morph from the wild, whoever pays thousands and/or hundreds of thousands for it will be doing so for a wildcaught snake... not an inbred one. Unless the snakes inbred themselves in the wild. Bad, evil inbreeding snakes!
I used Gus as an example because I really wasn't in the mood to see posts like "The evil inbreeding morph breeders don't deserve to eat". I did not say that I thought that Gus was over-priced any more than I said that anyone else is over-priced. However, what may be affordable to you may be outrageous to someone else. At every reptile show I have ever been too I get the "$100 for a boa?!? That's outrageous! That other guy over there has them for $50." I also get a lot of "Whut's da cheapest thang you got?" My response to both of these customers is "Well, my boas are quality, captive bred animals that come with records. If that is not what you are shopping for, then you are probably at the wrong table."
My Point, in case you missed it, is snakes all only have a relative value. The people who breed snakes for a living rely on this relative value staying as high as possible so they can make said living. The demand for snakes (of any kind) is relatively low (compared to, say, chocolate) so one person being irresponsible with pricing a large number of snakes can do a lot of damage.
Idle speculation is all this has ever been about. I idly speculate that noone reading this has the means or desire to truly crash the market of any snake. I simply cannot stand to see one viewpoint stand all by itself without any other viewpoint being given. That leads to sloppy thinking.
-Your Sick Uncle Morti
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