Deffinatly check the out store , I go there at times and they are a good store and pretty good selection of live stock. Of all the stores I go to in the 5 boughs I just think they are over priced.
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What I find odd is the price of equipment. Maybe I'm missing something but I dont get why lights and controllers, for example, cost so much. Considering in other markets much more high tech equipment costs less. I could build a dang good full blown pc for the price of a controller or some lights. And I'm sure the cpu and gpu in it would be far more advanced than the components in the controller, let alone some lights.
As someone that's in Manufacturing for a living, I can answer this one. I do rather frequently see folks insinuate that higher-end equipment manufacturers are "ripping people off". That's actually far from the truth. There's a lot that goes into it:
Conceptualization
Designing
Prototyping
Identifying and Qualifying Vendors of Sub-Components
Purchase Management (i.e., receiving, reconciling receipts with orders, quality checks, returns, "firing" vendors, dealing with backorders, etc...)
Manufacturing
Manufacturing Management (scheduling, inventory management, sales predictions, staffing, etc...)
Order Fullfillment, whether to individuals or distributors
That's just the manufacturing operations piece, and doesn't count sales and marketing, research and development of the next products, etc....
What's typically the case when I see folks opining that they can "get the same thing" for far less than X brand, they're comparing apples and oranges. Specifically, they may be comparing products with no R&D that are knock-offs of existing items, products that are "tool shaped objects" where the device has greatly cheapened components and little or no quality control that's advertised as "just as good as Y", or even items where brand X is made by a company in a country with established labor practices, pollution laws, etc... that has customer service, warranty repair, spare parts availability, etc... to brand Y that's assembled in countries with little or no intellectual property protection, pollution laws, worker protection laws, etc..., etc... and the item has no spare parts available, there's no customer service and (often) not even any way to contact the company, and a promised warranty with no way to follow up and actually make good on that warranty.
In the case of the example you gave (PC components), there's something else at play that massively dwarfs those other considerations above - economies of scale. When considered generally as to the global market, almost no one wants a reef tank light. Just about everyone wants computer components (whether for actual PCs or the little computers we call "phones"). While I don't know the actual specifics, I'm certain I could eat for free if I bet lunch with someone that the custom PCB in a Radion light that says "EcoTech Marine" on it had a gigantically higher order set-up charge and a substantially higher per-piece rate than your average USB 3.1 daughter card designed to go into a PCIe slot on a computer motherboard.
Looked at another way, the extremely sophisticated glass touchscreen in an iPhone would easily cost about $10k if they were manufactured on the scale of Abyzz water pumps.
What I find odd is the price of equipment. Maybe I'm missing something but I dont get why lights and controllers, for example, cost so much. Considering in other markets much more high tech equipment costs less. I could build a dang good full blown pc for the price of a controller or some lights. And I'm sure the cpu and gpu in it would be far more advanced than the components in the controller, let alone some lights.
I like a green slimer anyday over a WD. $20 or $200? Or homewrecker.
Are these frags that you have for sale?That’s why everyone needs someone awesome growing out corals and hooking everyone up
30.00!
gold hammer times 2 40.00 a piece
gold torch (my fave) 40.00!!
green torch 20.00!! Why not!
agave zoa and forest fire digi a steal at 50.00 for both!! We all need to get together and support each other and not screw each other on pricing and don’t feed the demon[emoji83] it’s hard to resist the pretty pictures though being straight broke helps
Well pick up trucks cost $55,000 now and if you put your wet dirty dog in it after a day at the park in the creek it is totaled.
Are you saying sps colors will fade due to aquaculture or its popularity in the hobby?Soon, not yet, but soon. Sps will fade as it is largely aquacultured. What is going to become rare is softies. Lots of countries have closed their waters of to harvesting for the hobby. So soon, not yet softies will become harder to get. So will a lot of common fish we see, like tangs, I think only one guy has managed to captive breed them.
Well pick up trucks cost $55,000 now and if you put your wet dirty dog in it after a day at the park in the creek it is totaled.