Re: [Alpacasite] Re: $205,000 Female

I understand your tulip bulb analogy.

One general thought I have is drawn from my general understanding of horses.
There are people who own upper echelon horses of X breed for a variety of
purposes. I am thinking of the thoroughbred auctions in Lexington, KY. THen
there are other people who own horses that are not perceived to be worth
those kind of lofty dollars. Midlevel show horses, pleasure horses or just
plain pets.( apologies in advance to horse owners who may define this more
precisely than me)

A multilevel market. Prices based on function of animal and whims and
emotions of owners with varying levels of finances.

Alpaca quality will be more critical as availability increases with herd
size.I think this is just a function of a maturing market.Purchases should
be kept in mind especially with profit at this point being based on
livestock and the value added aspect being in a less developed state at this
time.

12/7/05, Sondac <sondac@aol.com> wrote:

> Believe me Ray, I was not concerned that the buyer was going to have
> to cash in his life insurance to make this purchase. Nor do I begrudge
> the seller the price they got for their female.
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> I was trying to follow Ian's lead and start a thoughtful dialogue on
> the future of the alpaca market.
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> If you want to know my real concern, there is an example that is used
> in most basic economics classes that I think might parallel our buying
> and selling alpacas. That is the tulip bulb craze in Holland in the
> 1600's. If you want to review the basics, look up "tulip bulb mania".
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> Now before you tell me that alpacas are not tulip bulbs, I will have
> to agree:) But are there economic parallels?
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> Sonda Caffrey
> Honey Creek Farm
> Gardner, KS
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Barbara Troje
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