I use to think selling the pups cheap was okay in that I only wanted to recover the expenses I had in the breeding. I usually gave away many to newbies to get them started and to established dog men to see just how good the breeding was. I never had any goal to make profits from puppy peddling. However, nobody treated me that way and I always paid big. 1,000 a pup was nothing back 30 years ago for the right thing. Once it was 600 cash, a new electric walker, a daughter of Pistol Pete, agreeing to raise the bitch, He or I to furnish the first 2 studs splitting the litters. All for a 5 week old sick pup in the 1980's, Off Black Betty and CH So SO. His pups and Betty died and he came armed to take the pup back. I borrowed Tom Garner's 12 gauge and kept the pup and we split 2 litters. That's my biggest pup price. The pups I've given to (dog men) had their papers changed and the rest were usually slaughtered before a year old. Sell them a cur for a grand and he'll be the greatest, get bred and live a good life. I'm changing my ways.