The whole coral pricing has become a joke
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How would that work?
Selling your own frags cheaper will not deter, lower or alter these sky high prices. The gougers will simply buy up all your cheap frags and resale them and laugh at you. I know this for a fact as one of them told me this personally several years ago.
It's been 10 years now and these prices are going even higher and nothing, nothing is going to stop it unless you begin to educate as many reefers as possible to what is going on with factual proof. There are tons of threads alone out there to do this.
Mucho
From my understanding forum's/groups are quite easy to create with very little if any cash outlay.
Word could/would be spread through out the various existing saltwater aquarium forums to build a seller/buyer database.
Add a disclaimer upon joining that stipulates, no seller is to list coral colonies or frags above a max price in an effort to make and keep the HOBBY more enjoyable for everyone.
Once it is known that seller's and buyers alike are reasonable in their pricing, hobbyists (such as those posting here) will choose to spend their hard earned money on a piece or pieces that doesn't break the bank.
Like the analogy. The only way one eats an elephant, is one piece at a time.
Until we as hobbyists take a step to reduce the over priced corals flooding the market we have not right to complain.
JMHO
Let them laugh. When others find out that they can get the same frag for a substantially lower price from someone else they ( the over priced sellers ) will in turn loose business.
This way you are educating reefers, by putting $$$$ back into their wallet.
mussel and hate
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Mucho is correct. The polyp pimps will just buy up the cheap frags to corner the market. This behavior isn't exclusive to the coral market. It might work if you had an infinite supply of frags but then who does?
As many have stated over the years, often it's for bragging rights, to cash in on the next so call big find, for resale and profits by hacking the first new polyp and gluing it to a plug. Who knows as I have never seen so many people fragging frags and looking for info on how to frag said frag before it has even acclimated in their tanks.
Rare has become purely subjective. I have lost count of how many reefers I have encountered with less then a year in the hobby telling someone something is rare. My jaw breaks every time I visit these online vendors who label their corals rare. Corals I've owned 20 years ago, it's hilarious, yet people fall for this daily and pay extreme amounts of cash for common corals. This is where and why education is key
Mooch
I hope you're right.
Trust me, they now know about these sky high prices and the gouging and their fees have increased because of it. These prices are slowly killing this hobby and will priced the average reefer right out of the door as it has already done to so many.
SIR PATRICK
New member
As a previous reef related non-profit event organizer, I have thought about it...
SIR PATRICK
New member
Its hard to have the "next hot polyp" of the month...but I try....
Sold thousands of zoas and given away even more. Made quite a few peoples day in my time.
HammerLover
New member
Yup, that's why I was shocked when people were mazed at the huge colonies of hammers I've got.
When I searched online for prices of corals in US the prices are way too expensive. In sure in Indonesia, marine livestock is also very very cheap.
Tweaked
FUP&A Member
Well the animals we purchase can slip through a few hands before we get them. There are some standard prices for coral, and some just off the charts. We all have a choice with what we purchase for our tanks.
Deceptive marketing, price manipulation, a consumer outcry that does nothing... Yeah, sounds par for the course.
Lets be honest though it is not like we are talking about an unregulated utility here.
I have a tank full of common coral, It does not bother me in the least.
Reef Ruler
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You could always buy something from "Cornbred" and then turn around and re sell it as "SoloGarth's". You'd be doing exactly what irritates you, but you'd probably irritate those who are irritating you in the first place, and I'd get a laugh out of it haha. Sounds like a win-win.
Reef Ruler
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I couldn't agree more about his name choice hahahah.
I couldn't agree more about how stupid name dropping is either, actually.
jacksonpt
New member
Not to derail the thread, but isn't that to identify lineage? Whether or not you believe the seller/origin of the coral is another issue, but lineage can be important, no?
Personally, I don't care much about the boutique corals, but if a frag I'm considering came from ORA or ReefGen or some other trusted source, I'm much more apt to purchase than if it's a no-namer from Joe Schmoe's tank.
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