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usually my price guesses are severely off, so, how do you all calculate your sale prices? i would like to start a hatchery in the future, but that might be a bit difficult with no good sense of pricing lol. if anyone has any tips, it would be much appreciated!

@DeathSpecter

thank you for the tips! i’ll keep that in mind^

Hi there! As someone who has run several hatcheries, the first piece of advice I can give you is that as long as you're not genuinely overpricing by like, a [i]lot[/i], [b]selling dragons is much more about finding the right buyer than it is the right price.[/b] Keep pinglists and reply to relevant threads in Find A Dragon; be diligent with advertising. [b]Also, if a pair's hatchlings consistently aren't selling at under 40g, it may be more that the combination is unpopular rather than that the price is wrong![/b] In my experience, anything under 15kt is fodder price - if the fodder floor is 7.5kt and your dragon is up for color bonus, 10kt will get them leveled and exalted. If you would like to avoid this, price them higher. [b]5kt/g typically won't keep someone from buying, so when in doubt over a few gems, just go to the higher number.[/b] [b]The key to successful dragon selling is making sure that there's a reason for people to choose your dragon over the cheapest dragon with its color palette.[/b] Unless you're geneing your pairs yourself, someone else (likely multiple someone elses) can already breed dragons that look like the pair you just made. There needs to be a reason for people to choose your dragon in particular over the cheapest alternative, because otherwise you're in a race to the bottom. Make sure eyes match! Buy a slightly pricier parent for your pair so that they have a more desirable breed! [b]Do what you can to make sure you don't [i]have[/i] to price cheaply in order to sell.[/b] That being said, [b]here is a general guide to pricing:[/b] [list][*]Go to the AH. [*]Search up the color combination if it's a double/triple. [*]Find dragons with similar genes and breeds, then look at their prices. [*]Discarding obvious outliers, such as a two month old dragon priced at 500g with siblings that also haven't sold, your dragon likely falls somewhere in that price range.[/list] [b]Pay attention to what special factors make dragons priced higher[/b] (matching eyes, eye type, new gem genes vs old gem genes, new breed) [b]and see if your dragon has those features.[/b] If not, don't price at the highest end. If yes... maybe still don't price at the highest end, but you can definitely charge close to it. If there are no dragons with your combination of genes, breed, colors, and matching eyes, congratulations! In that case, you get to decide what the price is, and if the genes are popular, you can have your starting price at a premium. Pricing XYZs is a lot trickier since fewer people are looking for them/breeding for them, but in that case, search by general color range, or try to find dragons with a similar aesthetic/gene combination. The basic principle of using the AH to create a range still applies! [b]When creating your pairs, honestly assess the AH and the potential hatchlings to see if you can realistically sell the hatchlings for more than the cheapest alternative.[/b] [b]Also, when in doubt, 35g/kt is a good starting point for a generic pretty dragon with a reasonably popular color and gene combination.[/b] It's easy to earn that amount in a day, so it's well within impulse buy range for a lot of established players, but it's not so low that your time and food and lair space is wasted trying to sell. I honestly just don't breed dragons that I think won't sell for more than 35g. I hope my ramblings can help you! Best of luck with your hatchery! <3

I usually only sell fodder so I price them about 10kt or 10g which is as much as I would get if I trained/exalted myself. So if nobody buys them, I do just that. I just put them up in case someone loves the color combo so there's a chance they can have it.

@liramyne

thank you so much!! all of that was very helpful, ill be sure to check the AH in the future^ one thing im just a little unsure about is how to check the trends. i havent been on FR in a while, so im not sure whats new or trending now lol

I also find I have some difficulty selling for appropriate prices, and frequently will lowball (esp if I'm a little low on space in my lair). that being said, for dragons I think deserve to sell for a higher price (because of unique eyes, nice color patterns or trends, etc) I typically check the AH for similar dragons and base my prices on what I find there, as people have recommended. If you're comfortable checking out the FR subreddit, there's a lot of sale posts on there (under their Sale/Trade tag) as well that could also provide an additional perspective.

I was also recently linked to this pretty useful pricing post on a thread I made the other week: https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/gde/2579044/1

I set everything at 20 gems/20kT...this generally (but not always) keeps them from being used for fodder. It also seems to be a pretty middle-of-the-road price that most aren't upset to spend. There are a few exceptions in my lair that i price higher, but those are verified subspecies and i just price them at what the others who sell that subspecies sell them for.