I hope my two cents is not beating a dead horse here...

Anyways, dealing reptiles and amphibians is a very hard way to make a living, and I commend anybody who makes it through honest business and providing the herp hobby with what we want. Mike is very much in the right to market these frogs in this way. He recognized an opportunity and jumped on it. How can he build a business by any other method? This cannot be "price gouging" because this is a product that nobody "needs," and people will readily pay this price for something that is very much a novelty. I would not have been surprised to see them up for more, considering the work he has put into them.

Also, what Mike has stated about how one wholesaler can ruin the hobby is very true. I had seen this happen when I dealt mantids. Within a few years, $30 mantids became $3 on the market due to the fact of every kid breeding them and trying to get rid of them fast. This has happened to a [somewhat lesser] degree in the tarantula hobby.

There is no need to ever criticize somebody in this hobby for prices. If the prices are too high, you do not need to pay it to survive, and can look somewhere else. If you are complaining about the price, it's because you want to buy that animal, and you don't have enough in your pocket.