WaffleWalffle22
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Stuff on the West Coast is really highly priced.
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BonsaiNut
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Not sure why you would say that. Pretty much everything from the South Pacific comes in through LAX. Don't want to start a price war thread or anything, but if you find LA stores are more expensive than the rest of the country, you are shopping at the wrong stores.
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WaffleWalffle22
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That's the regular prices for where I live and I don't think $150 for a (slightly bleached) RBTA is very cheap.
But NVM let's not start a price war.
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That's the regular prices for where I live and I don't think $150 for a (slightly bleached) RBTA is very cheap.
But NVM let's not start a price war.
I think he means the prices in that link are expensive... At least i hope! I would never pay that much for any of that stuff!
BonsaiNut
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I was just pointing out prices on an online store that I found in Maine. It seemed pricey compared to the stores I go to in Southern California, however not at all pricey relative to the stores I used to go to in Chicago. I always use certain common fish as a guide. For example, Flame Angels out here go for $39, Yellow Tangs (Hawaii) go for $29, Copperband Butterflies (Indian Ocean) go for $29, etc.
Probably the biggest difference, however, is the fact that I see a lot of livestock out here in Southern Cal that I never saw in the Midwest. Rare (and expensive) angels, tangs, butterflies, etc, to say nothing of the inverts. So I guess you could say the common stuff is less expensive, but they also sell a lot of expensive rare stuff too.
Last red haddoni I bought out here (retail) I paid $160 for. Now they have one on DD for $800. And you know what? If I still lived in Chicago I'd probably pay that much because I NEVER saw one in retail all the years I lived there.
I have never been to an aquarium store in Maine so I can't really say. It just doesn't seem to make sense that Maine would be cheaper since they have to transship everything up from LAX.
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