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I love live sales. It's a fun way to interact with other hobbyists and just the challenge aspect of trying to obtain that certain coral you've been eyeing while 500 other people are also trying to do the same thing for that exact same frag is fun.
I totally hear you on this. There’s often lots of good back and forth discussion and banter the days and sometimes weekend leading up to the actual sale.
It’s all good fun I’m sure.
I only opened this thread because I thought Batman Apathy was one of your crazy new acro names.
Personally I never saw the draw. The idea of sitting at my keyboard furiously pounding the F5 key in hopes to see something I like and then miraculously fire off some sort of method to communicate that you want it, only to be disappointed cause some guy has a hot key Macro programmed blah blah blah sniper this yada yada yada....
Meh...I’ll pass.
Hit up any vendor with 1000+. Most frags jump from 300 to 100or less.I have participated in one live sale recently and it was...as expected. Chaotic and ends up being stressful if you let it. Which is why I tend to steer clear.
They're just another marketing tool for these vendors to make money on their product. Everyone has some marketing tools in the toolbox.
And, if we're honest @Battlecorals marketing tool is the Battlebox. I would venture to guess selling battleboxes makes up a good part of his overall sales.
And if we want to talk about prices of corals...individual prices on corals on Adam's site vs what he'll put in a battlebox always indicate to me that those individual coral prices are marked up quite a bit. If he can put a frag priced individually at $300 in a $300 battlebox along with 3-4 other frags...there's a discrepency there. It's not right or wrong, it's marketing and how you run a business. He obviously isn't losing money on his battleboxes or he wouldn't do them.
Gosh this has come out like an attack which it's not meant to. Just comparing those vendors who do live sales as their marketing tool vs @Battlecorals and the marketing tool I see him using.
I've bought plenty of battleboxes and probably still will. I prefer the low pressure route.
I have noticed most live "sales" are not even sales at all. They just mark up the original asking price and act like the cut the price in half. I see "sales' on most of the every day corals like PC Rainbow with it saying original price $99 now on sale for $49, while $49 is all people would of paid to begin with.