Listing the price for puppies and dogs up front. - Page 2

I always enjoy seeing someone post the trueth not often you see it any more Thanks Jonhtic. I personally have no problem posting my prices. I think I am fair in price. I could care less if joe blow is higher or lower I know what I have personally put in to each of my dogs and can prove it!. QUOTE Not committing publically to a price also allows breeders the opportunity to screen interested parties and get more information before they commit a pup to a sale This is a bunch of BS! I still screen all of my clients and IF I feel they can not care for one of my puppies then it is simply put "my puppy would not be good for your home enviroment" I am the seller I don't have to sell. Hinding the price is not going to change that!!!

The initial ad I saw here this spring from Marion and Karl Fueller for my Orbis vom Kirschental didn't list the price, but also did not say anything like "serious inquiries only" or "no price-checking." My initial email to them asked about price and shipping costs/information. I also told them a bit about myself, where I was located (USA) and my past experience with my other two GSDs, including the facts that my yard is fully fenced and that my other dogs were professionally trained. Marion immediately responded with the price, so I'm guessing the information I sent had covered any concerns they might have had about whether I was an appropriate person for their pup. As for the price itself, it was much less than I had anticipated paying for a VA-sired pup out of an HGH Siegerin from one of the most experienced and well-known breeders in the world. So let's not automatically assume that not listing a price in the ad means the breeder wants to empty your bank account.

perspectives, perspectives.....I know of instances where a breeder likes a prospective home so much they *lower* the price. Not listing a price is not "Hiding" the price.

I personally look for a price in the listing. If I don't see a price .. I just keep searching. My reasoning is.. I know my money limit and what I can spend. I also believe in saving time for the seller and buyer.. instead of wasting time. JMO. Melissa.

Not saying it's hiding but it will keep some from inquiring at all. Lots of people assume if the price isn't listed, they can't afford it. Lot's of people don't want to ask price, assuming the breederr will look at them awkward for doing so. I don't use price as a way to withold info from a perspective buyer, or a way to weasle info out of them. All my buyers have to answer a questionare and talk to me for enough time I feel comfortable, before selling them a dog. Like Echo describes. They must sit down at my home and look at my dogs paperwork, view pictures, video and ask questions I assume appropriate. Meet my dogs and child as I must meet theirs. My prices will never go up but most certainly can come down, if I think a particular pup belongs with this family or person.

4pack, where did you see $200 Walmart puppies?? You must live in a more affluent part of the country them me!!Out here they're given FREE in the Walmart parking lot! lololol......... Also, I have "gifted" one puppy out of every litter. It's always done quietly, with the promise from the recipient to never disclose the no$ price. Each of these puppies have gone to awesome homes. Each has been to extreme deserving people that would not otherwise have afforded a pup. Each has been the most heartwarming follow up story. Granted the money is good, but it's sure not all about money.

I havn't seen $200 Walmart pups, just an example. Usually they are about $35 here or free. lol

Ranchinglady, that's a wonderful thing to do!!!

If in order to sell a puppy, someone has to sit down in your home, look at paperwork, view pictures, video and ask questions, meet family and dogs, what are you doing? When you want to buy something, especially if you already researched it, even if not, most want to pay the price go home and be done with it. Do you like it when a salesperson takes forever explaining why the car on their lot is so great, why their wash machine & dryer is best for you, how about in your home, why you need their social security supplement, why their home improvement company is the best contractor for vinyl framed windows, why you should vote for their representative. It can go on and on. If you can not put the price up front, you are a salesperson using deception. If you have to sit and greet sell from your living room, because you can not sell at your price otherwise, with hours of BS to wear down a person, so they'll will lower their guard and buy at almost any price just to get a fair chance to run out the door with a puppy on a pressure sale, because if your prices are so high you have to go down the list of crap to sell it, it definitely is not an impulse buy, with a high price. What kind of person are you for using these unscrupulous tactics? A bully, a pressure seller and a deceptive salesperson.

P59 - "This thread is an offshoot of the "Asking about price?" thread and probably should be moved there." This thread is an offshoot, but still a completely different topic, rather than one thread with 15 forks in the road, it was felt this topic carried enough weight on its own to bear a thread of it's own, with 16 replies in less then 5 hours, wouldn't you agree. To many topics are spawned off of other threads and left their, without their own thread, people just read the original thread post title and a lot of good information and input from different personalities is lost, because the original topic may not be something people are interested in reading or responding to, but give a new subject or line of thinking it's own thread and those people who want to respond to it will, quite a few probably wouldn't of responded under the original thread and its multiple twists and turns, with subject changes and tangents being discussed among a closed party of people. For a subject to have a large input, it needs it's own thread. Many times I have seen a subject that I had a response or reply for but after reading the postings under it, the information for the original post is no longer relevant due to subject changes. I feel strongly that new subjects should get their own thread for open discussion in multiple directions even if off shot and related to something else, especially if looking for more information from other parties.