need help deciding on a large purchase

[simplyjess]

I have the opportunity to make a large purchase of ball pythons want some feedback first to know what people think.
0.1 2 enchi breeding size
0.1 spotnose breeding size
0.1 woma
0.1 fire
0.1 spector
0.1 black pewter
0.1 black pastel breeding size
0.1 normal 10 egg
0.1 normal
0.1 gentic black back

1.0 yellow belly
1.0 spector
comes with helix db 100 thermostat 2 port
18 bin carauna rack
33 bin carauna hatchling bin
herpstat pro
12 hatchling holdbacks all normal
and feed for a few months
asking price 5500.00
please give your feed back trying to decide and really want to hear others thoughts thanks

[Aaron_S]

I don't know the price of spectors so I'm unsure how to price them out and you didn't tell the size of everything else. Just what's breeding size. I could only presume everything else is a baby or similar size.

I priced it out to roughly $4500 but it depends on spectors and where you are in the Country.

[simplyjess]

Woma 700g
Fire 620g
Spector 639g
Blk pewter 440g
Blk pastel 1292g not quite ready to breed
Gentic blk back 640g

1.0 yb start at 300g there is three of them
What are your thoughts on the rack systems? Never seen the carauna products
Before. we built ours

[StudentoReptile]

Why is this in the colubrid section?

[smy_749]

You could always low ball him and say you have cash in hand, that seems to work often enough.

[Amadeus]

You could always low ball him and say you have cash in hand, that seems to work often enough.

I agree. If you are meeting face to face, haggle the sh*t out of him. Man I'm cheap....

[bcr229]

I'm buying an 0.1 Specter weighing about 600g for $500 USD, in-person transaction this week, if that's any help on the pricing for that morph.

[Sophia'sSophia]

That's what I was wondering, Student

[Aaron_S]

Woma 700g
Fire 620g
Spector 639g
Blk pewter 440g
Blk pastel 1292g not quite ready to breed
Gentic blk back 640g

1.0 yb start at 300g there is three of them
What are your thoughts on the rack systems? Never seen the carauna products
Before. we built ours

Built my own racks. Don't know those.

1.0 300 gram Yb is worth $150
Fire - $350
Spector - Unsure
Black Pewter - $500
Black pastel - $600
Genetic black back - $100

Those are the random things I pulled off the top of my head. Roughly fair to slightly above average pricing.

[smy_749]

I just figured I'd say this, just incase. If you are into balls like Aaron and have breeding animals / already heavy into it then disregard this. If not, and your looking to get into something new, try your luck in the BP world, I would say take a step back and purchase just a few animals and see how you like it. 5 G's is alot of cash, and thats alot of snakes. Maybe buy a few of the morphs you like, try your luck breeding them / see if you enjoy working with them first, and then slowly build your collection. I will be more enjoyable to build it slowly IMO as well. Anyways, thats just a thought I figured I'd throw out there.

[Aaron_S]

I just figured I'd say this, just incase. If you are into balls like Aaron and have breeding animals / already heavy into it then disregard this...

For the record, I have never bought a collection and probably never would.

[smy_749]

For the record, I have never bought a collection and probably never would.

Yea I figured you built your collection up on your own, I was going to include that as well ...I just meant that if hes heavily into it and was already doing alot with balls than he might not have to 'see if he likes it' before making a collection purchase.

Plus, buying a collection ruins alot of the fun imo. Anyways, alot of people see collection sales as good investment opportunities, chances to jump in full force, and realize after they've paid that its not what he had thought it would be....

[franks]

I think that is great advice smy.
One thing I would like to add from personal experience to anyone thinking of getting "into" royals." If you are going to start with buying hatchlings, do not buy any males. The temptation is to grab snakes that you get good deals on and you will always find great deals on boys. Girls take a little longer to grow up, and you are better off with building a collection of females to start. It will be easy later on to add a stud male once your girls are growing well and you have acquired more knowledge on genetics etc.