POLL: How many individual corals did you buy this past weekend from R2R Black Friday Weekend Vendors?

[ZoWhat]

POLL: How many individual corals did you buy this past weekend from R2R Black Friday Weekend Vendors?

 

[shakacuz]

0. saw stuff i wanted but not at the prices i wanted. i scored better deals in other events than i did for what should’ve been the biggest sale of the year…

 

[Gtinnel]

I bought 6 after planning on buying 0

 

[fishface NJ]

0. saw stuff i wanted but not at the prices i wanted. i scored better deals in other events than i did for what should’ve been the biggest sale of the year…

totally agree

 

[OrchidMiss]

Way too many...

 

[Blutspitze]

I'm 85% certain my wife made this thread to trick me into revealing shameful information.

 

[Dolphins18]

0. lots and lots of equipment instead. Think I placed nearly 20 BRS orders.

 

[Gtinnel]

I'm 85% certain my wife made this thread to trick me into revealing shameful information.

I doubt it. Usually if a trick from the wife the question is how much $ not how many corals.

 

[OrchidMiss]

Way too many...

Let me correct that.... with last weekend's "before the rush" sales, I bought the majority of the way too many corals that I did... This weekend, I only bought about 10, but all for extremely discounted prices due to gift cards and winning things with my incredible .gif game.

 

[ZoWhat]

0. saw stuff i wanted but not at the prices i wanted. i scored better deals in other events than i did for what should’ve been the biggest sale of the year…

 

[JNalley]

Shipping is always a big thing for me. I can't justify paying $30-$50 to have something shipped because that will effectively ruin the small discount I got, and I'm just not at a place where I can drop $250 on Corals to get free shipping. My LFS's all did their own Blackfriday sales on corals so I bought from them.

 

[LiveFreeAndReef]

0. Sales didn't seem any better than the usual monthly live sales. I have Christmas presents to buy hahaha

 

[ZoWhat]

Wrong GIF darling

 

[Dolphins18]

Black Friday shopping is all relative, you are saving money in one place but most retailers get the chance to raise prices at these times. A transition so to speak without the consumer realizing.
With coral prices constantly changing it can be difficult to get a good baseline of what a "good deal" really is.

 

[Tamberav]

Zero. I actually got better prices a few weeks before Black Friday. I went to go look to compare... ya the sale 'looked better' at 40-50% off but the corals I bought... base price was now listed higher. So when I bought them a few weeks ago, I ended up still getting the same corals cheaper than on Black Friday.

It's marketing for most

A few places I would expect to get a better deal are places that don't do tons of sales like Battle Corals or Marine Farmers, etc. These places generally just do a straight % off, have the same aquacultured corals, and don't do live sales and so on so when they actually have a sale, you can be more sure it is a sale.

But if is a place that has lots of sales for every obscure holiday and 'live sales' and so on.. you best be careful if you want to spend your money wisely.

 

[fishface NJ]

Zero. I actually got better prices a few weeks before Black Friday. I went to go look to compare... ya the sale 'looked better' at 40-50% off but the corals I bought... base price was now listed higher. So when I bought them a few weeks ago, I ended up still getting the same corals cheaper than on Black Friday.

It's marketing

Yes, I saw the same thing

 

[shakacuz]

Black Friday shopping is all relative, you are saving money in one place but most retailers get the chance to raise prices at these times. A transition so to speak without the consumer realizing.
With coral prices constantly changing it can be difficult to get a good baseline of what a "good deal" really is.

100% this. for the "beat the rush" sale i saw a coral go for 90$ after the discount. then the black friday and cyber monday sales that SAME coral was at 100+.

 

[N.Sreefer]

No canadian vendors so I had to go to the LFS. Its 2 bad fragbox isn't active on here.

 

[Utubereefer]

Over20

 

[OrchidMiss]

Over20