fallen_angel said:In response to Nick (?):
We do not advertise any of our animals with Pastel except for the normal Pastels. We do not raise the price for them, they sold for $25 each. It's just so the buyer knows, if they are familiar with Pastel, that the animal carries the gene.
Pastel Snows aren't necessarily all that yellow, so I do not understand what you mean by your comment. We had a Mack Snow Pastel that was very high white, and he didn't get sold because of any marketing about being Pastel, he got sold for being a nice Mack Snow. Like I said before, we do not advertise our Snows as Pastel snows, simply because you can't always be sure without breeding them (unless you have Pastel X Pastel, which produces 100% Pastel) and there's no need to change the price because of it. It's just like Mike said, I'm more than satisfied with letting my geckos speak for themselves as well
If someone out there is making more money by putting the name "Pastel" on their site and raising the prices for the animals listed; then yes, that isn't right. But as far as using marketing ploys to make more money, people do that all of the time in this business. Nothing new there.
Jess I wasn’t aiming this comment at any particular person, so please don’t take it as such. I was simply saying that this is how I suspect this name came along, and as you said marketing ploys are common…
