Re: Dart frog price tags
That is the best explenation there is out there
Just wait untill no-one want to breed the "cheap" species anymore,
when they seem to be gone from the hobby and someone mention them again,
wait and see what prizes they will be again.
I must say not everyone experience the hobby this way, but i think there are enough people who believe they can make a living out of breeding their frogs.
My tought about it, it is a hobby, that is supposed to cost me money
I think prizings are just what you wan't to give for something.
If everyone thinks it is to expensive, prizes had dropped already.
When there is so much available people also drop there prizes to sell of their offspring.
I bought myself 4 P.hosii a while ago, costing me well over €750 ($1000)
to me they are worth that since i was looking to get a hold of them for quit a while,
i just don't think i will be able to get my offspring sold for the same prizes
If you wan't something realy bad, i think you will pay for it.
If you don't wan't to spend so much on a species, maybe you just don't wan't them badly enough.
In my opinion also something to guarantee only serious people start out with keeping/breeding the uncommon species.
After they succeed, more will become available for lower prizes, making it reachable for more people, they will provide even more offspring lowering the prize even more and so on.
This is not a bad thing in my point of view.
If uncommon species are sold for bottom prizes, more people will think, well i just try them out, making them less carefull to what they do.
People i don;t tell the prize of my toads don't like them,
they think i am crazy traveling from Amsterdam to France and back to get them.
The ones that do know what i had to spend think they are awesome.
So i must agree, for some species it is not even bad to be in the higher prize class
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