You cannot compare breeder prices to shop prices........shops have a lot of overheads to take into consideration as well as the fact they pay tax on all their earnings

Most breeders do not have the same overheads and I am sure most of them do not declare their breeding earnings to the good old tax man..........

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WANTED

0.2 Opal..............07's preferred

FOR SALE OR SWAP

1.1 Sunkissed Okeetee 07's
1.1 Hypo lavender het Opal Stripe 08's

Well my prices aren't a lot cheaper than the other locals around here, quite a lot of competition and a lot of breeders within an hour in any direction so it would be hard to charge higher prices anyway. Plus I advertise on RFUK and sell a lot online... out of my shop, but still to people who are expecting to pay competitive online prices.

I bred the same before I had a shop - but I sold wholesale and the other shops made the profit. I don't sell wholesale any more now, I'm actually charging twice the price I was charging wholesale before but the extra profit goes into my overheads.

Before when I was breeding out of home I might sell a corn snake for £10 when it had cost xx to raise/feed, resulting in xy to put towards other things. Now, I still probably only make the xy profit.. even selling at £20, because the rest goes into the shop overheads... all the money goes back into the shop anyway

If I could sell hatchlings for £150 I'd be a rich woman At the end of the day I could probably sell one or two to people at £150 a year.... but I breed in the hundreds and a competitive price with both local and online does of course help to move those. If I wasn't pricing competitively I would be left with loads of babies and have to switch back to selling the leftovers wholesale, at a lower price than I sell now.... so it's better to price competitively from the start in my opinion.

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I reckon at least an extra tenner on top of your usual £20 for a normal.
£40 would be fair ...... but i voted for £30.

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Yeah, that is pretty much what I was getting at. Luckily for me I'm friendly with my local, so I might be able to have a few words. Hehe, I bet I know what your thinking there..

No, they still have shelves full of last years stock, with eggs in the incubators for this year, it surely makes sense to lower the prices on the remaining - or majority of - 07s to clear room for new babies hatching in a few months.

Sorry, just getting my head around how the private - shop business side works. I know there is the tax man to deal with, bills and such. It just comes across as selling one for even £50 is better than selling none at £70 - per day/week.

I'll stop clogging up your thread now hehe xx

Id say £35-£40 would be more perfectly reasonable.

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My Reps0.0.1 Ghost Corn - Arlo 0.1.0 Snow Corn - Rosa 1.0.0 Normal Corn - Norman 1.1.0 Amel Stripe Poss Het. Butter - Fry & Leela 1.0.0 Western Hognose - Arnie 1.0.0 Royal Python - Bruno ] 0.0.5 Anery Het. Hypo Corns] 1.0.0 Butter Corn[option]

Well for me, if I have 100 corns at the same time, eating a pinkie every week, that's 100 pinkies a week, or 400 pinkies a month..

At my peak I can have 200 corns, even 300 once... that's 800-1200 pinkies a month in the height of season! If I have to keep all of those for 6 months before I sell them, then I would have to raise my prices a lot!

I am lucky that I tend to sell the majority of my corn snakes fairly quickly,so I do not have to add on hefty food bill costs, selling most at 5 feeds... and very rarely having corns that stay with me for more than 3 months. Herping is pretty big in this area these days, and also - because I advertise online, I sell out (especially in the higher morphs) very quickly. A couple of clutches I have enough pre-interest to say that they are all sold even before they hatch.

If a shop is in a quiet area and has to keep feeding and housing them since last year... I can only imagine how much extra costs those snakes have incurred.

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