TheReefKeeper
Aquaholic
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rip off???? you tell me BLUE ZOOS
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45commando
New member
Matt,
I understand what you are saying,but how many times does someone go out of their way to leave positive feedback?Not many people get thanked for just doing what is expected nowadays.
When I was in the military,we had a saying "praise in public-do the rest in private"& I still believe in that statement today.As for the zoas pictured,they are great looking zoas.They don't appear to be Tubs,but if the LFS isn't claiming that they are,then no one should care what they cost.It breaks my heart that there is a red Haddoni carpet at Dr Foster & Smith for $800,but I'm not going to complain about it.Someone will buy it,if they don't then the price will drop(Dr F&S if you're listening please drop price.)
d9sccr
Premium Member
45commando..just to let you know, Reef's Edge is good place to look for the carpets. I know there are two spp., but the last shipment of carpets they got included neon green, neon blue, purple and one or two reds. I talked to the owner last week and they're expecting another shipment from that area again soon.
Oh yeah...all were selling for 100. I don't get it, but they were.
Oh yeah...all were selling for 100. I don't get it, but they were.
45commando
New member
d9scc, thanks,I have a neon green & blue,but have been looking for a red (at the right price).I will try & stop by this weekend.TY.
Just as a followalong to this thread, I want to add my .02. Just 2 days ago, I was at Barrier Reef (not flaming them, not promoting them.) They got in a dark purple (like the purple death zoos) tonga type mushroom. Now, it's gorgeous, but it's still just a shroom, and they wanted like 80 bucks for it. I told em the minute they drop it to 30, call me. I doubt I'll ever get that call. Someone, somewhere may buy it. Or it may die in their system. Or it may go crazy and put out 10 more shrooms. Who knows? Point is, any price you put on it, someone somewhere will buy it. Remember when 1 colony of acans was selling for $2000? And that crazy red angelfish that sells for $1200? It's supply and demand. That's what made America great. Unfortunately, that same basic principal is what caused the housing boom and soon thereafter, the crash. If I had the money, I'd buy every example of the latest stuff, propagate it, and sell it at half the price and still make a killing. Don't flame someone for selling a Yugo for $30k, laugh at the knucklehead that paid that much for it.
Yea. I frequently shop at barrier, and they are my LFS of choice because they're like 3 minutes from my house and every other LFS is 30+ minutes away. They've got fair prices for fish and some corals, but any time there is something "different" or "rare" like austrailian acans or other fancy named corals, the price shoots through the roof. I don't buy them. But they do get so much business from people in the area who have never heard of FMAS or ReefCentral. The corals are usually sold. People regularly buy xenia for $35 for a tiny frag, when I was giving it away with other purchases back when I had them growing so profusely. It's all about markets and information.
I'm willing to bet that if everyone on RC, at least in our area, stopped using LFS totally, they might notice, but I can't imagine us making up more than 10-20% of their customers. However, I know from experience that if an LFS is preferred by someone, and has a good relationship with someone in the club or on RC, that that person will tend to spend 2x-10x as much at that store than other customers. So it's all a trade, and it's all a very complicated game. I say game because yes, consumer preference is all a game that can theoretically be written out on paper .
I'm willing to bet that if everyone on RC, at least in our area, stopped using LFS totally, they might notice, but I can't imagine us making up more than 10-20% of their customers. However, I know from experience that if an LFS is preferred by someone, and has a good relationship with someone in the club or on RC, that that person will tend to spend 2x-10x as much at that store than other customers. So it's all a trade, and it's all a very complicated game. I say game because yes, consumer preference is all a game that can theoretically be written out on paper
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gasman059
The OG mad scientist
Lets say that all of u smarties have a biss. And that biss is fish and coral and on your last shipment from the isalnds of watamalu(as an example) 1/2 of your 5k order died in transport, wouldn't it be fair to try to at least break even in that order to make up for the loses instaed of trying to contact a guy that's currently in a remote post w/o a phone and guarantee probably stoned after making $50 of that particular order.
It is what it is so if u don't like it don't buy it!
It is what it is so if u don't like it don't buy it!
loyalrogue
New member
Dammit, Jess!
You owe me a new keyboard now that I've spit my drink all over this one.
As for the percentage of business that FMAS makes up in the area... Man, are we full of ourselves. LOL
Go hang out in the SW section of Big Al's for an hour.
(I was there today to buy calibration fluid and some mysis.)
They are so busy that you have to take a number and wait to get service from one of the 3-5 employees back there who are running non-stop.
Out of the 50-100 customers they serve every hour, guess how many are FMAS members.
Maybe 1... and that one was me.
The only time I've ever run into an FMAS member there was when the meeting was setup ahead of time.
According to statistics I saw in an article a few years ago, it stated that 8 out of 10 households in S. FL have a fishtank.
FMAS has about 300 members total.
I'd say on a conservative estimate, we make up less than .001 percent of the entire Dade-Broward market.
My own observations in my day-to-day job with AT&T tends to back this up as well.
I go into several customers' homes every day and see quite a few SW tanks (alot more FW than SW, but quite a few salties non the less).
Since 2006 when I joined RC and found FMAS, guess how many of those hundreds of customers with SW setups have been members of FMAS?
Zero..., and to the best of my knowledge none have bothered to join or post here after I enlightened them.
Of course there may be one or two LFS who's primary customers are the big spenders from FMAS, but I'm willing to bet that if we all packed our bags and moved to Hawaii tomorrow, 95% of the LFS here wouldn't even notice.
