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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 5233405" data-attributes="member: 19675">Is it in a store or is it being auctioned?  If so, then everyone else here is probably right that there would be some "set price."However, if its being auctioned off, the price could skyrocket...especially if one of the bidders has connections in more southerly climes.  Such a merchant may well be willing to outbid everyone else- sometimes to a seemingly insane amount- because he knows he can sell it to the ruler of a desert kingdom for a royal ransom.And such a purchaser may do the obvious and have it trained as a living weapon of war that would have attacks virtually unseen in the region.Oooooorrr...he could treat it like a housepet, pampering it and using it to make <a href="http://kwc.org/mythbusters/2005/03/mythbusters_cooling_a_sixpack.html" target="_blank">chilled dishes</a> or cooling the air of his palace with its breath (and aftereffects).  Imagine entering his throne room as a breeze passes through frozen textile curtains, cooling the air and all within, or slaking your thirst on water and fruit juice cooled to 37degF.  Such a man would have QUITE the reputation.</blockquote>