Homoeomma chilensis prices

[ignithium]

We have on Russia 1000 rubles about. Seen a few last week on an expo at the Moskva

 

[RadicalSquire7]

It’s not expensive it’s a robbery

 

[Kitara]

We have on Russia 1000 rubles about. Seen a few last week on an expo at the Moskva

I'm pretty sure I told you to stop bragging.

(Kidding. I'm just jealous.)

 

[MetalMan2004]

This little one was a craigslist score a while ago. I paid $100 US. Still small, but with its molt about a month ago it finally started to get its color.

 

[Hoxter]

In Poland I've seen only one shop selling them for some time. Only slings, equivalent of about 15 USD. But now, they're nowhere to be found.

 

[StampFan]

This is a hobby where you have to take advantage of opportunities to buy certain species at a good price when you have them. It is all supply and demand. Nobody's fault, so I'm not sure where the anger in this thread comes from just because people can't buy what they want on demand. Sellers will sell species for what it is worth to *them*, not what you think it should cost.

 

[CommanderBacon]

And here is why people are charging outrageous prices.... because so many people just don't care how expensive they are. When I first joined AB like 5 years ago, slings were 10 bucks a pop, adult females were 50 to 60.

Now with recent popularity, prices exploded, the price on an otherwise mundane and inexpensive animal has literally gone through the roof of the crazy house. They are cool yes, but they're not a tarantula I would consider especially beautiful or stunning, or even rare. With current prices I could win the lottery three times and I still would never pay what people are currently asking.

It's not just the popularity, it's also because we can't import them from Chile anymore and US breeders aren't super successful at getting sacs to drop. I know two experienced breeders and one new breeder that have all tried to breed their females with multiple males. None have gotten a sac yet and they aren't hopeful. No idea who else has tried and hasn't been successful.

The European breeders who seem have H chilensis breeding dialed in finally realized that US keepers will pay insane amounts of money for them now, so we're no longer getting imports at the low prices we were getting them even a year ago. Fear Not Tarantulas had H chilensis slings imported from Europe selling for about $60 or $70 last July if I remember correctly, and I could have gotten one at cost for much lower at that time, but those prices are no longer available to any vendors I have spoken to.

As long as the supply can't meet the demand, and people are comfortable paying $200-$300 for a confirmed female H chilensis, I don't see the prices decreasing any time soon.