Quote Originally Posted by ConcinnusMan View Post
Oh, I believed you, I just didn't know what albinos you were talking about. And $45,000 for a ball python isn't even close to high end. I've seen some for $250,000 before. Don't even get me started on retics.
having many personal friends that are off the deep end into the python morphs... $45,000 is definitely high end! Not too many pythons actually sell cash value for that you know. The majority of snakes that are priced that high, are traded for other extremely rare and valuable morphs or expensive items such as a whole new room full of caging... a car... etc! A lot of morph people use their own self-proved out rare morphs to gain leverage to get other things they don't have or can't afford to outright buy. they don't usually start selling for actual outright cash until they hit like, $7k. There are ALWAYS exceptions... and I personally watched a guy lay out $12k in CASH on a table for a snake at a show... but a lot of outrageously priced snakes are not actually exchanged for real money.... and if they are, generally, it's a payment plan or a partial cash partial trade.