MerryAdvocado
Arachnopeon
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- Jan 23, 2022
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It's not only the supply (breeders), but also the demand, the ease of breeding, the egg sack size, growth rate, survival rate and whether there are WC specimens. All these will have an impact on the value of the arachnid.Personally i cannot believe that the prices in the US represent the actual availability of said animals, correct me if i am wrong, but if you look at how they reproduce, in big clutches and how much effort it is to raise even a small batch of slings for some time it is reasonable that private breeders want to get rid of them as quick as possible, that includes wholesale or otherwise dropping the price. So ether there are very few private breeders or your economy is so bad that people would rather sit on them because they need to recuperate the money they invested. Or there are many Middle men in sales, that take a cut.
A more sinister possibility is that people actively destroy some of the offspring to keep the supply-demand ratio the way it is.
Anyways, i have said it before, the prices in the US make no sense at all from an outside perspective.
The reason why the price varies between countries is because some of the above varies between countries.