The $450 Normal Male Ball Python

[equuskat]

http://tampa.craigslist.org/hil/pet/896195525.html

Here he is ladies and gentlemen.

(It'll be flagged, I'm sure...lol)

 

[Mushroom Spore]

That's hilarious. I've had my BP since summer '05, and I don't think the cost of buying him, having him shipped, setting up his ten-gallon tank, setting up his twenty-gallon tank, regularly buying large sacks of aspen shavings, and two winters being treated by the vet for mild respiratory infections (which I paid for a taxi to get there because I didn't have a car) COMBINED cost that much.

Maybe if I throw in the cost of every prey item I've ever bought it might come close. Might even break 450 a bit, I'm not the best at math.

But that's...wow.

 

[stevetastic]

well he comes with a 200 gallon tank. i think thats where all the price is coming from.

 

[equuskat]

Three of my ball pythons cost me $0-$20. The fourth is a pastel male which I paid $100 for. The babies live in RUBBERMAIDS with spartan "cage furniture" and the big girls live in 20 gallon longs that I got for less than $20 each from a garage sale.

$450 is just ABSURD. lol I don't think I have spent that on all for of my snakes in the past 2 years. lol

 

[equuskat]

I just sent the girl an email and asked her how much the snake is without the cage and she told me $350.

 

[Shagrath666]

well he comes with a 200 gallon tank. i think thats where all the price is coming from.

yea, a 200 gal new wholesales for around 120, and retails around 300-400. a used tank i would pay maybe 100 used (i got mine for free and now have a nurse shark ) no reason that the tank would jack it up to 450. if shipping was included in the 450 you might have a rational offer b/c of the size and weight of the tank. rational but not reasonable enough to buy

 

[bliss]

I just sent the girl an email and asked her how much the snake is without the cage and she told me $350.

damn, is that a rip off or what...

now watch someone buy it!!!!

-dan-

 

[bliss]

(i got mine for free and now have a nurse shark )

duuude you have a nurse shark! those things rock! pics! (in the 'not so spineless area', of course )

EDIT: or well, considering we are already in the NSS area lol.. nvrmnd. brainfart.

-dan-

 

[mrbonzai211]

Send her the link to this thread so she can see how everyone is making fun of how ridiculous she is.;P ;P ;P ;P ;P

 

[Shagrath666]

duuude you have a nurse shark! those things rock! pics! (in the 'not so spineless area', of course )

EDIT: or well, considering we are already in the NSS area lol.. nvrmnd. brainfart.

-dan-

ill try, but she is crafty, none of the pics ever come out cause she knows the camera and either hides or moves too fast, she does live with a Queen angel who poses for pics

 

[arachnocat]

I check craigslist a few times a day for snakes and supplies. Sometimes I see some some really overpriced stuff. At least once a month someone is trying to sell a 10 gal. tank for over $100.
Of course there's some nice bargains too. I picked up a beautiful wood snake tank last weekend for $20.

 

[ShellsandScales]

A dollar a gallon is fair for any large tank in good shape. but I have more like $0.40 a gallon in all of my tanks.

 

[Bedlam]

duuude you have a nurse shark! those things rock! pics! (in the 'not so spineless area', of course )

I'll second this motion!

 

[froggyman]

i hate craigslist