The most you've paid for a normal adult female ball?

[zero&stich]

Well I bet most will smack me with "the stick", but the most I've spent was $35, wholesale for a C.B. at Regal. But she was a juvi then, "normal", unproven.

But the most I've personally seen purchased was $165 for a C.B. female. Don't know the technicalities though, such as grams, age, length ect. Was a "normal" but unproven. Looked to be an adult to, well never saw the person measure it but it looked bout 4 ft-ish.

[RandyRemington]

I sold a couple of big eating machine normal girls a few months after they laid 8 eggs each for USD $250 each in 2003. Hated to let them go but I still don't have any co-dominant males and needed the money for a new project. I'm down to only two females that aren't known to be possible hets for something. Now I’m using untested 50% chance het albino girls to cross with possible het males from other morphs so that I’ll increase my odds with chances on both sides and who knows maybe even have a double het girl in there somewhere.

[justinO]

I've just seen 2 or 3 posted for $500-$650 USD PLUS shipping! The americans must be out of their minds, or really short on adult females.

Anyway, I have one girl that I bought for $175 at 850 grams who ate ALL winter and is now 1550. I have one i paid $250 for that's about 2500 grams but only eats live, oh well, that hasn't been proven yet, and one I paid over $300 for that is 3500 grams (yeah, you saw that correctly!!!) that is proven.

You are right Tim, why skimp on paying for a good size female when you are going to get your money ten fold?

Usually, if you see them at all available in Canada, they are around $400. That's if you can find them..... heh

Jessy

[MouseKilla]

It's obviously going to vary from person to person but I'm pretty surprised at how high some people will go for the sake of 4 - 8 more eggs. Of course, if spending $600 - $1000 means getting back several times more than that when the eggs hatch then who can argue with that? I can forsee some really whacky ads turning up in the classifieds as a result of this thread though. lol!

Very interesting subject, I have to wonder what this means in the case of animals that throw a lot more offspring such as a corn or boa.

[MarcB]

When one considers the dollar value it takes to feed a hatchling up to a big 2 000 gr. female, they should therefore not be sold under $500. I'd rather keep them then sell em at $200..

[honduranfreekk]

Well with that said Marc my friend I will be over this weekend to buy all your females lol I will be down to see you soon Marc now that things have slowed down for the season

[MarcB]

Your welcome over anytime Kelvin, cold bruskies waiting on ya here...

[justinO]

I don't think that the amount of food that a snake has consumed should be considered when selling an animal, at all.

if this was a general idea then burms should cost about $3000 when they are sold at 10+ feet.

on the same note, a normal male bp that will max out at a lower grams, still needs to be fed, so selling a 15 year old male doesn't mean it's worth $2000 just cuz it's been eating after it became an adult.

anyway, it just bugs me when people talk about how much an animal is worth based on the food it ate, it's a living thing, and while you have it, you feed it....... you don't put that cost on to the next person who owns it.

Jessy

[pinoiballer01]

Hey guys!!! Im just curious bout the prices ur saying.. I live here in los angeles ca.. I think u can easily buy a female bp for 40 USD. Im not really sure for this though. I got my bp in chinatown in downtown Los angeles and they are selling a bunch of bp's for 40. Im not sure if this is a good thing or not

[malaysianbloods]

Personally I would pay $500+ for a big female ball(Close to breeding season). But if it is not close to breeding season then I would rather go with a smaller female pay less and fatten her up my self, so I think that once breeding season has past a female ball pythons price does drop fairly good because then breeders are not in a rush to get 1500+gram females because then they have time to fatten it up themselves before the next breeding season.
But then again thats just what i think.

[justinO]

pinoiballer01: no, we usually never talk in USD unless we say so, 99% of the time we would be talking in Canadian $$.

Also, this board is about ADULT female ball pythons (1500 grams +), not babies.

[Jeff_Favelle]

No, food is not taken into consideration when adult animals are sold. What I consider, and what most other breeders have in mind when selling an adult animal is, "what is the lost income from that snake if you bred it the subsequent season?".

Why would I sell an adult pair of Rainbows for $500, when I can just keep them, breed them next year, and wholesale the babies (20) for $150 each and make $3,000!?? And STILL have the adult pair! This is why adult animals from a breeder cost WAY more. Take Pastel females. EVER seen a 2500g Pastel female for sale? I haven't. And if you have, its was probably $10,000. Why? Because with ONE breeding, that snake could make you $50,000, so why would the breeder sell it to joe-blow for $3K?

[Corey Woods]

For the seller it's short term gain with long term losses........not always the best move to make!

Corey

[Jeff_Favelle]

I agree Corey. Which is why you see the people that never produce anything constantly flipping animals every year. They would make 10x more money if they just stuck it through, bred the damn snakes, and then wholesaled the babies, and THEN sold the adults as a proven pair.

I'm always sketchy when I see adult animals for sale.

[Ron]

Hey Trev,

Finally got one of the sweet deals you have spoken of; I picked up a 1800 gram female today for $100.