Bleached or Dyed?

SDguy said:
I told my brother about this thread (he's a designer), and his reply was this :lol:

"So now what we do is place a color photo card (kind of like a pantone color chart card) next to the thing we are selling. That way the color swatch can't lie. And if your monitor is off (which is always an excuse), you can color-correct. I'm surprised you guys don't do this considering how important slight color details are from one coral to the next. Or have sellers done this already?"
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Your brother knows what he's talking about :) It actually protects the buyers AND sellers.
 
SDguy said:
I told my brother about this thread (he's a designer), and his reply was this :lol:

"So now what we do is place a color photo card (kind of like a pantone color chart card) next to the thing we are selling. That way the color swatch can't lie. And if your monitor is off (which is always an excuse), you can color-correct. I'm surprised you guys don't do this considering how important slight color details are from one coral to the next. Or have sellers done this already?"
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Color swatch can't lie, but that doesn't necessarily matter. Most modern editors you can color correct a section not the entire photo. In turn, you can doctor just a coral/anemone and not the swatch.
 
RokleM said:
Color swatch can't lie, but that doesn't necessarily matter. Most modern editors you can color correct a section not the entire photo. In turn, you can doctor just a coral/anemone and not the swatch.
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I think the idea was more for just crappy/mis-colored photos, and excuses like the one being given in this thread; not purposeful item specific doctoring.
 
SDguy said:
I think the idea was more for just crappy/mis-colored photos, and excuses like the one being given in this thread; not purposeful item specific doctoring.
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Yeah I was about to say the same thing. If I wanted to I could doctor ANY photo and be clever enough about it that it would be really hard to detect. We're talking about general color correction due to the unusual spectra of aquarium lighting and how many auto point-and-shoot cameras can do a real hack job on capturing accurate colors. I know my last camera really struggled with white balance when taking photos under 20K lighting.
 
I would be really interested to try this with my own camera, which does all sorts of hocus pocus with my colors. I'd have to somehow waterproof the color cards without altering their colors.
 
I have been out to wholesalers recently and even for a green haddoni of that size, $150 is not a bad price. Wholesale price for normal green haddoni (not the bright lime green) is around $60 - $80. Given that retail mark up is usually double or more, you didn't get a bad price.

FWIW, I don't know why, but several years ago the wholesale price for haddonis jumped over the price for giganteas (given the same size and color) by quite a bit.
 
I have been out to wholesalers recently and even for a green haddoni of that size, $150 is not a bad price. Wholesale price for normal green haddoni (not the bright lime green) is around $60 - $80. Given that retail mark up is usually double or more, you didn't get a bad price. I'm not saying that I find what EC did is OK, just saying that if you went looking locally for the anemone you got, the price would be similar.

FWIW, I don't know why, but several years ago the wholesale price for haddonis jumped over the price for giganteas (given the same size and color) by quite a bit.
 
No, not a bad price, just not what I thought I was getting.

That being said, one of my local guys was at the wholesalers today, and texted me a pic of a gorgeous blue haddoni. I have no self control. Ready for the trifecta pic later?
 
You did? Awwww...how's he doing? Or do you mean the big blue I picked up from Derek last night? Which wasn't supposed to be a beast...but it is.

OK update. I just got off the phone with the owner of EC, and we have worked out an agreement to my satisfaction. He make sure I was fully satisfied, and I am grateful. So, props to EC, I quite honestly wasn't expecting resolution so quickly and Scott was a stand-up guy.
 
Lol, yeah Derek took a pic of it next to his hand for me at the wholesalers...apparently it wasn't to scale. I almost crapped my pants when I got to the shop. The 150G is going to have to go up sooner than later! Like next week, lol.
 
A portion of the sale was refunded. I didn't request the full amount since I'm keeping the nem. We also had a nice talk about his internal procedures with receiving livestock and how he represents them on the web. At this point (and you may call me naive again...), I truely don't believe any intentional misrepresentation was made.
 
Oh my, you are going to need that bigger tank very soon.
That's pretty much going to be a 150g carpet nem specific tank, and chock full!
 
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