Originally Posted by RJK890

There is a market for everything! Even if I were to sell my Spider, Pastel, Pinstripe, Lesser, Albino, or other base morphs(males of course,) to Petco, or in a petshop of my own for $79.00-$179.00, and Bee's, Blast's, Albino Spiders, etc. for $279.00-$379.00, I could make back my investment and a profit in the end, while providing great animals to some good people that otherwise may never be able to purchase an animal like that. It would expand this hobby, and eventually that is where it's going.
That is not my intention, but Would that make me a scumbag? I think not.
There will still be those that purchase the same snakes at double or triple the price from the big boys just because they can afford to, and believe that they have a more selective breeding stock. The big boys are far ahead of the rest of the industry, having 5+ morph genes in one snake. They will continue to make their money selling ground floor project animals, and new mutations. There is room for everyone at the table, just not for greedy people who want the whole pie.

To answer Casey, who cares? Does Wal-Mart give two craps about K-Mart, or Sears? Should they? It is obvious that you only want posts that support your rants, and lynchings. I honestly don't care if Joe, or anyone is selling Pieds for $500, or $100 and I need to sell them at $400, or $90. The BP mafia might be on a war path, but not everyone cares about your spilled milk over what someone else sells "their" snakes for in a free market.
This thread started with positive feedback from a transaction, and the same members as always come out pounding their chest and stomping their feet, because they don't like the seller for personal reasons.
Who cares what Joe, or anybody else sells for this year, next year, two years ago, or two years from now? People complained when spiders were $5000, $3000, $2000, $1000, $500, and they will continue to complain.
If I bought a Pied today for $1800 and next year they are selling for $500. So what, Who cares! I'm not going to go online bitching about how I now have to sell 4 Pieds to make $2000 back. Let alone hang the seller who sold me the Pied at $1800, because now he is selling his at $500. It's a free market, and if you can't deal with the risks then don't spend more money than you can afford to lose, or wait on making back, whether it takes 2 or 20 clutches!
If some of y'all don't like the sellers, don't buy from them. The BOI is here to provide actual feedback. If you don't like the feedback, start your own thread titled, "Why I hate So and so, even though I've never actually done business with them."