REEFERS: I'd like to hear what frustrates you most about buying corals online
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I have a new gripe now. Slow internet speed. I had planned to avoid live sales but couldn't resist the WWC tax weekend sale. I picked up some nice looking pieces (and I trust this vendor!) but missed out on some amazing frags at checkout. Thinking about upgrading internet speed again, but it's probably for the better that I didn't end up with twice the coral purchases I made...
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First and biggest issues as others have said is the over saturation of photos. I ordered from a couple vendors for first time during sale. One vendor had almost matching pictures to what I received. Another was hyper saturated and didn't not receive exactly what I ordered. Still happy with it but was also disappointed. I learned that some vendors use very extreme editing and saturation.
Another issues is these sales. They make a claim that up a certain percentage of and there is only one frag at that price and was already over priced and is still cheaper and common at my lfs. This also goes hand in hand where they either have things overly priced for the sale or I have even caught the original price and the "sale" price being the same. Some of these sales aren't real and have fake prices as original.
I also hate where as others stated minimum orders. Great if you have a lot of money. But the point of the sales is to save not spend more.
They will do these frags for 1, 5 or 10 dollars and then you have to buy another frag that is not one of these. Ok that's fine. Then go through to find and notice there is a minimum to spend and all the other frags are 80 and up "on sale". Which I could get both at my LFS for 60 and not have to pay shipping on top of it.
Once in a while I'll see a good legit sale. But I also see vendors do markups for the sales .
Another issues is these sales. They make a claim that up a certain percentage of and there is only one frag at that price and was already over priced and is still cheaper and common at my lfs. This also goes hand in hand where they either have things overly priced for the sale or I have even caught the original price and the "sale" price being the same. Some of these sales aren't real and have fake prices as original.
I also hate where as others stated minimum orders. Great if you have a lot of money. But the point of the sales is to save not spend more.
They will do these frags for 1, 5 or 10 dollars and then you have to buy another frag that is not one of these. Ok that's fine. Then go through to find and notice there is a minimum to spend and all the other frags are 80 and up "on sale". Which I could get both at my LFS for 60 and not have to pay shipping on top of it.
Once in a while I'll see a good legit sale. But I also see vendors do markups for the sales .
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