I still can't believe any ball python is worth $10,000. Ridiculous! but that's not why I started this thread.

Scott recently sold some garter snakes around $300 each. They weren't even captive "designer" snakes. I don't get it. I guess that's one thing I'll never understand. pricing. Last year, CB baby concinnus were going for no less than $35 each. So, I thought, great. I can do that. I'll even sell them at only $20. WRONG! This year, I had to pretty much give them away. Go figure. I also don't understand why atratus are worth so much (at least, for now). Scott said "because they are rarely available". Well how many friggen blue concinnus are available? Still aren't worth $300 apparently, and still not worth the $100 price tag placed on drab olive atratus with a yellow stripe. Not really all that spectacular if you ask me.

How is this drab thing available in more numbers than the next snake...



worth at least 3X more than this?


Somebody enlighten me.

Seems that snakes as an investment isn't a good idea. By the time you buy snakes at the outrageous price, and are able to produce them yourself, so has everyone else and the price drops like a rock. There just isn't many of them out there in the wild. I won't do that.

I've had a lot of inquiries for blue concinnus (more so than normals) so demand is there. I just refuse to catch wild snakes in enough numbers to meet that demand, for the sake of profit.

Even so, I don't see anyone willing to pay $300 for that blue concinnus (she's WC and not for sale anyway) no matter how rarely available they are. I intend to use her to breed CB babies. The question is, even if CB blue anery babies are available in limited numbers, for the first time EVER, then why will nobody pay $100 for them, but they will pay that for a drab olive snake no prettier than a very ordinary garter snake?

Stumped...