Bounce
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I agree 100 % with this.
People who charge these prices are simply gouging. If someone wants to pay $ 600 - $1000 for a single polyp, is real sad. For those who want to pay it, go ahead. The rest of us do not.
Mooch
jccaclimber
Member
You're paying for the fad, not because they grow slowly. It will pass, then the price will go, then the availability will too. In the town I used to live in back in Indiana pulsing xenia had a 6-12 month cycle:
It consistently ran $30 for a frag at the one LFS in town.
People would get it, grow it like a weed, and frag it.
Once the local market saturated people would drop prices, then start giving it away to get it out of their tanks.
The LFS would stop carrying it because it wouldn't sell (why buy from them when it is free).
People would stop growing it because it wouldn't bring them $, or because they tired of it taking over their tank.
Suddenly one day you wouldn't be able to find it. The LFS would start to stock it again, and the cycle would repeat.
Oddly the same thing happens with purple yumas there, I'm just sad I didn't see that until I moved away.
It consistently ran $30 for a frag at the one LFS in town.
People would get it, grow it like a weed, and frag it.
Once the local market saturated people would drop prices, then start giving it away to get it out of their tanks.
The LFS would stop carrying it because it wouldn't sell (why buy from them when it is free).
People would stop growing it because it wouldn't bring them $, or because they tired of it taking over their tank.
Suddenly one day you wouldn't be able to find it. The LFS would start to stock it again, and the cycle would repeat.
Oddly the same thing happens with purple yumas there, I'm just sad I didn't see that until I moved away.
iReef1234
New member
While your example is local, this type of boom and bust can occur across the country bc internet sales then?
jccaclimber
Member
I would assume so. I've had times when I've gone looking for what seemed like a basic item and not seen it.
I'm just speculating it this point, but online sales in bulk have two sources, importers and propagation places. If they decide something isn't profitable, they'll stop stocking it. I'm sure someone will always have it, but I could see availability decreasing. I don't really follow online store coral sales much, but can you think of something that used to be common but that you don't really see anymore?
Tweaked
FUP&A Member
About to trade one of my JB babies a friend gave me for a split of a WWC Bounce, so pretty excited about that. I pay high prices for acros, but that's cause I'm crazy like that. Still not convinced they aren't injecting them with another corals proteins to get that reaction...
Opus123
Member
If they were injecting them would you still have the same reaction after 2 years and would the babies also have the same reaction?
Opus123
Member
The WWC Bounce has been around for a few years and I have yet to see another wild one show up just like it. Most other shrooms you can find multiples of them. I still see shrooms today that were being collected back in the 90's.
Tweaked
FUP&A Member
It also broke the record for single most expensive polyp ever sold at $6,000.00
BeanMachine
Active member
Agreed. I keep hearing that more are being collected, but yet to see proof of those statements.
It is annoying though that any rhodactis with a bubble or two is now being referred to as a bounce whether or not they are actually unique or pretty for that matter. Brown mushroom with a clear bubble for sale... its a bounce... $400 each. :fun4:
May I ask what is the allure?
Does everyone believe they are rare?
Or is it just the visual appeal, the color and the bubble?
Thx.
MUCHO REEF
Does everyone believe they are rare?
Or is it just the visual appeal, the color and the bubble?
Thx.
MUCHO REEF
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Opus123
Member
I currently believe they are rare. As BeanMachine stated, we keep seeing posts claiming they are being imported but I have yet to see that materialize. Until I see proof, I think the WWC Bounce was a one of a kind. Now was that 1 shroom or did they get a rock full of them, I don't know. If there are more than one of certain corals, you will see it show up around the same time at different vendors. There are several examples of this where 2 vendors will half a coral and each puts their name on it. There are other times a wholesaler will get in several pieces of a unique coral and it will show up at several vendors. Again, this never happened with the WWC Bounce. I've seen other "bounce" shrooms show up at different vendors and they each throw a different name on it.
So my take, the WWC Bounce is rare and I really like mine. Now I got it at a great price and I wouldn't pay over a couple hundred for one but that is my limit on any coral. I've wanted a master scoly for many years but I refuse to pay $500 to $1000 for one.
The bounce craze is out of control. I've seen too many shrooms at frag swaps for hundreds of dollars and they have no more than a few bumps on them, not even true bubbles. We've got a couple of LFS that try this but I don't think anyone is buying them. I've seen them calling normal St Thomas shrooms bounces.
Hey thanks for the reply.
I want to have an open conversation with you on this topic as I want to share something with you regarding these shrooms or anyone who wants to join in. No tricks, no darts, no gimmicks, no flames or no games. Just a straight up adult dialogue, can we?
Mooch
I want to have an open conversation with you on this topic as I want to share something with you regarding these shrooms or anyone who wants to join in. No tricks, no darts, no gimmicks, no flames or no games. Just a straight up adult dialogue, can we?
Mooch
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organism
code monkey
I know of three different wholesalers who are currently importing them. Two in LA and one in FL, at a price where full big 2-3" mushrooms should retail for $130-200, making small of them worth about $30-40, $50-60 if you want to make a big profit. They post pictures of them on facebook in mushroom groups if you need proof, tons out there it's just the same scammy vendors picking them up and holding them kind of like how diamond companies do.
Said it before I'll say it again: the moment people stop overpaying for them the prices will dive bomb because the supply right now far exceeds the demand. Until then there's too many people who for some reason or another are making the active choice to "currently believe they are rare." 100% of those people coincidentally own a WWC jawbreaker.
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