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Originally Posted by Gregg M
Its nothing to get upset about though.... When you are the first breeder/seller to have a certain morph in bulk, you pretty much set the market price...... Now I think (and I am NOT aiming this at most of you that post here) that the majority of the breeders/sellers that would be upset about this are the ones that were looking to make quick cash and get rich on the BB craze..... I guess some people were taught a valuable lesson..... Never bank on a market that is shakey at best..... I mean, just look at what the past has shown us..... Look at how much albinos, blizzards, Giants, jungles, jungle ablbinos, patternless, and patternless albinos were when they first hit the market..... The prices dropped dramaticly almost over night on all of them...... Living animals are not investments and it is sad when someone looks at them that way...... When you drop a ton of money on a morph, it is a race to see who can produce the most and a pretty big gamble...... People need to understand this and not cry when the prices are driven down.....
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The issue as I see it is not that people are upset upon recognizing how unstable the market can be and how quick prices can drop.
The issue I see is that 2005 is the first year that anyone outside of Prehistoric Pets on behalf of Mark Bell can sell Tremper Blazing Blizzards.
There was no one to set the price or drive the market price besides 1 entity.
They do not need to drop their prices significantly, because up until later in 2005 there will be no competition.
Now surely you see what I'm getting at and why I percieve it as petty:
When someone new comes to the market with Tremper Blazing Blizzards, not only can they not try to get a piece of that $1000 pie, they probably will have to set their prices significantly lower than $250 just to move some of their stock.
It is not greed that would fuel the anger here. Frustration, certainly. Prehistoric Pets has managed to ruin both the selling price and the elitism that
came with being early to the market, before anyone else could get to market- but only JUST before.
Now granted, maybe the Tremper Blazing Blizzards are not selling well. I don't consider Prehistoric Pets to be doing all that well with marketing them, certainly the pictures used to sell them are not nearly doing justice to the beauty of this morph.
It's likely that Prehistoric Pets rushed to get the most animals to market as possible before competition popped up, hence incubating for male as all the $250 tremper blazings are.
As for the snows again........ I have something up my sleave and I'm willing to pay the premium if it gets my project accomplished sooner. It's not about making the money back, it's about achieving a certain goal.
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