africangrey
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I am thinking about switching from IO, would the excel sea salt be available in any LFS at bay area? Shipping costs more than the salt itself by an e-retailer.
*Free Bag Of The New Tunze Reef Excel Salt*
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Unfortunately, at this time the only dealers are Premium Aquatics and Rick's Reef in New Orleans. To be practical a dealer has to order a full pallet, which is 120 bags. Otherwise there is no profit in it. Perhaps you can convince a LFS to contact us and order it in if the demand is high enough. Aquarium Specialty is also selling the salt by drop shipment but the shipping is steep, we shipped a 120gal bucket yesterday and I think AS charged $15, actual shipping was $19. -+
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jamesdawson
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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11957458#post11957458 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by rvitko
Excellent numbers!
This puts Reef Excel in a very small category of salts with good Potassium numbers.
I will readily switch to this salt as soon as I find a store in NorCal that carries it as I don't buy salt online because of the added shipping expense.
Roger I suggest you try to get Dr Fosters to carry it as they don't charge a weight fee, although I can't ever remember them carrying anything Tunze?
Thanks again for the sample, can't wait to switch over!
James
africangrey
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Well when I placed the bucket in the shopping cart, Aquarium Specialty wants $54 for shipping to Fremont, California, ouch. Like James said, is there any way you can convince Dr. Foster and Smith to carry Tunze line of product.
I don't have an interest in working with them, we are not a company of the size that can meet there demands. That shipping isn't free, someone is footing the bill and I don't have the pockets to do that. The big companies have warehouses throughout the country to arrange cheap shipping, everything has to ship from our warehouse in Austin.
I would suggest contacting Premium or even calling Aquarium Specialty by phone to verify the shipping rate but if there are two of you in the same area, you may be able to sway an LFS to carry it, but keep in mind that it will cost roughly $500 to ship that 120 bag pallet and likely the dealer will pass on some of that shipping charge so I would fairly expect to pay $30 a bag. FWIW, every bag we shipped cost $10-$16 a bag just in shipping, this stuff is not cheap to ship.
I would suggest contacting Premium or even calling Aquarium Specialty by phone to verify the shipping rate but if there are two of you in the same area, you may be able to sway an LFS to carry it, but keep in mind that it will cost roughly $500 to ship that 120 bag pallet and likely the dealer will pass on some of that shipping charge so I would fairly expect to pay $30 a bag. FWIW, every bag we shipped cost $10-$16 a bag just in shipping, this stuff is not cheap to ship.
wartskin
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I just checked Premium Aquatics and for them to ship one bag of salt to my Texas address UPS ground, it was gonna be $12.31. So I checked what it would be to my old address in Orange County and it was $17.21. Then using the same addresses I checked the prices for a bucket, to Texas $19.84 and to Orange County $26.68. These are not bad prices considering the bulkiness of this particular item.
africangrey
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Thanks for the info Rodney. so order directly from you is out question, since they can only be shipped out 120 bags at a time.
africangrey
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I am not good in organizing a group buy, too much time and money involved.
I just talked to Michelle at Premium Aquatic, was informed that there is little or no mark up on salt so discount on shipping is out of question.
Apparently they want $76 in shipping for 3 buckets and $36 freight for 1 bucket. It's not feasible for us in west coast to buy a bag at a time, it would be worth while if 3-5 buckets are ordered at once.
I just talked to Michelle at Premium Aquatic, was informed that there is little or no mark up on salt so discount on shipping is out of question.
Apparently they want $76 in shipping for 3 buckets and $36 freight for 1 bucket. It's not feasible for us in west coast to buy a bag at a time, it would be worth while if 3-5 buckets are ordered at once.
wartskin
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The best bet for you guys to get this salt closer to you is to approach one of your favorite LFS's and express your interest in the salt to them and get them to pick it up in there store. Or if you would like let me know what store you guys frequent and I can make the call as well. But the chances of getting it into a new store will be better if they can see a strong customer base for the product.
africangrey
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It would be a great help if Marine Depot start carrying the Tunze salt.
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