What is the "average" price for a Yorkie?
 

I am paying $1000 for Dante, and am just curious..I know you can pay alot more.

i have seen them any where from $500- 3,000

Canadian $$ ?

Regardless, price seems average.

Mine were $600 and $1200 but that was 4 yrs ago also

I paid $550. But he doesn't have papers or anything.

Thanks, I guess what I paid is average.

I paid $1800.

I paid, well my bf paid :), $600 for Teddy. Which I did not think was bad at all being since he is 6 months old and still only 2.4 pounds. The smaller they are the more pepole want to charge you for them!! Haha.

I only paid $350 for my Baylee but that was a special thing. We got her from a really good friend and he gave us a deal as a late wedding gift. Plus he owed us alot of back gas money (poor guy has medical bills up the whazoo. he had cancer) She has all her pedigrees and she is ACA registered.:D

If we wouldnt have gotten that deal we would have had to pay $900.

I think it depends what area you live in and what type of breeder they are. In Ca I have noticed that the puppies people sell for less have health issues because most people pay a lot for them out here. (In the LA area it seems like a few people have been ripped when buying a pup for $400-$800 that have LP, a shunt or even parvo...this is within the last few months) I would say the average is about $1,000-$1,500, but I have seen a few for $3,000 and up. With th eeconomy I think the price has been driven down because people need to spend their mony elsewhere.

You are right! However, even in California, in certain areas prices are going to vary greatly, and it is not necessarily true that paying $400-$800 for a yorkie puppy is going to automatically give you a sick baby or one with health problems.
I live in the San Joaquin area> Which is in Fresno , it is the farming community, however Fresno area is the large city, but their are Cities , many very small communities . Kings County area is not a higher income area, prices are going to be less, that DOES NOT mean that puppies are going to be ill of health. It is insulting when California residents assume that all CA. people have to pay huge amounts of $$$$$ for a Yorkie pup in order for one to be always healthy and perfect, depends the the area.
I came from the BAY AREA. A huge Jump from where i live now .If I live there , then Of course I would be paying through the NOSE for a Yorkie Pup. I would expect it .My Suzi is over a YR old now, SO far , SO good. NO terrible, Illness, and SHE has been HEALTHY, no PARVO, or anything . MY breeder was good . She did not cost me thousands of dollars , and she's a PURE bred .
Cathy ;)

Yeah, I have seen Yorkie cost from $500 to $1500, but yikes I have never seen a $3000 puppy. Man, I want to see a $3000 puppy, because it must be beautiful.

Does everyone have papers for their dogs?? Are the papers a big deal? ...My first puppy, I am so clueless!

I had all of the paper work to register Roxie but I never planned on breeding her so I didn't send them in. She's strictly just mine to love. If your paying that much then I think your puppy should come with papers. I'm sure others have more solid answers for that. I believe DH paid around 1200 for Roxie. When I think about the fact that he did that for Roxie and me it just gives me butterflies to think he loves me that much (it was love at first site with Roxie anyway!!). ;)

I'm in Vancouver. I paid CA$600 for my girl last year. She was 4.5 months young and came with the first vet check, first shots, tail docked, dew claws done from a local hobby breeder.

I paid 8oo.oo for mine and he is worth every penny;)

I've seen them for up to $10,000!! I paid a lot more than anyone on this thread paid for their dog but I do live in So. California.

We only paid $350 for our little Maggie, but she has a small hernia which we will get repaired when we have her spayed. Her littermates went for quite a bit more. She was the last one the breeder had and you could say we were just 'drawn' to her... she needed us! :)

I paid 950.00, no papers..

I paid 1,600 for perrito and 1,000 for jasmin if i'm not mistaken both of them have papers but I don't really care about it, they have puppies now that I going to sell (after that i'm done, no more puppies) and I'm thinking to charge $700 for them but i'm not doing their papers, what yo people think?

WOW. That is absoultely stunning. :eek:

Lacey was $900 and AKC registered. The love she's given us already is priceless.

Dante will not have papers either, it really makes no difference to me, I will love him no matter what :)

In Alberta I have paid I think... $900, $1200 and $1600. The more I spent I did see better health, quality, guarantee, papers ..... Raising puppies properly, showing and health testing are not cheap. The size also had nothing to do with the price, the smallest were the least expensive, not important to me I just wanted healthy standard yorkies.

I just got my little girl AKC for $700

Mine are between $1,000 and $2,000.

I hope you didn't take it that I was saying that if you pay fro $400-800 you are getting a sick puppy. I am simply saying in the LA area lately puppies that are being sold for a lower price usually have something wrong. I don't think that you do have to pay a big price to get a healthy yorkie, but each area is different. When the average yorkie in a certain area is one price and you find one that is too good to be true, you definately need to do your homework to insure that this pup is healthy and someone isn't trying to pull a fast one on you. I have seen to many people posting on other sites that they need help with money and vet care because the puppy came to them sick. Of course any dog can get sick...but in this area this seems to be the case. When I got my first yorkie my cousin kept telling me I was crazy, but I knew my breeder I knew she had the parents tested and the pups were very well cared for and I knew that was what I was paying for. She ended up finding a lady that wanted $400 for a pup and the poor thing had parvo and died a few days later. Recently my sisters co-worker bought a pup for $500 and it turns out she already had a shunt and has dished out tons of money trying to save the poor pup. Many times you can look on CL and find a few people in that same situation.
I know that in different areas that you can find quality yorkie pups for a cheaper price, but in this area this is what I have noticed.:D

I am from Orange county California, and bought Uni in hacienda heights (LA county) fairly upscale higher middle class area. I paid $1200 for Uni at 12 weeks, with shots up to 12 weeks with microchip. She is ACA registered, but in my opinion if they are not AKC, their registry doesn't really mean anything.

I got my First one in New Brunswick and paid $600(no papers) and got my second one once i moved to ALberta and paid $1000 (no papers as well). What are the papers for anyways?? why do those matter??