World wide corals

[jdpeters]

I was just going through their coral inventory and I see a ton of 3-4 dollar frags that start with “WS”, what am I looking at?

 

[Rocks reef]

I just went to WWC and I'm not seeing what you are referring to. Are you able to post a screenshot?

 

[exnisstech]

Like above I'm not seeing those coral listed on the site but i can't help but wonder if it stands for wholesale corals?

Apparently I don't know the difference between S and C. It was before my morning coffee lol

 

[Fish Fan]

Are you maybe seeing "WWC", which stands for World Wide Corals and indicates a particular variety that they propagate in house?

 

[bluemon]

I was curious so I placed an order last night but they refunded it today

Apparently according to them, it’s from a sale 2-3 years ago? But I feel like these might be wholesale prices

 

[jdpeters]

I was curious so I placed an order last night but they refunded it today

Apparently according to them, it’s from a sale 2-3 years ago? But I feel like these might be wholesale prices

This is what I saw, I started building a cart but deleted it. It didn’t feel like I was supposed to have access those prices. Maybe WS was wholesale prices?

 

[Gumbies R Us]

My guess is whole sale price

 

[Biokabe]

I also saw those last night, but I'm not sure that wholesale price makes much sense. My company runs our sites on the Shopify platform as well, and wholesale pricing isn't typically a parameter you would include on any inventory upload. On the other hand, Shopify does retain records of past sale events that you've done, and if you're not careful it would be pretty easy to re-activate a sale.

It is of course possible that someone dropped in a spreadsheet with wholesale pricing on it to their regular inventory link instead of the correct retail one.

 

[jdpeters]

I also saw those last night, but I'm not sure that wholesale price makes much sense. My company runs our sites on the Shopify platform as well, and wholesale pricing isn't typically a parameter you would include on any inventory upload. On the other hand, Shopify does retain records of past sale events that you've done, and if you're not careful it would be pretty easy to re-activate a sale.

It is of course possible that someone dropped in a spreadsheet with wholesale pricing on it to their regular inventory link instead of the correct retail one.

I immediately started shopping but knew something was off. It didn’t feel ethical lol. I was just as quick to ditch my cart

 

[bluemon]

I immediately started shopping but knew something was off. It didn’t feel ethical lol. I was just as quick to ditch my cart

Not really unethical.

Any vendor has the choice to refuse a sale and refund. Doesn’t hurt to at least try. The vendor isn’t bound to a sale when you put in an online order

 

[Biokabe]

Not really unethical.

Any vendor has the choice to refuse a sale and refund. Doesn’t hurt to at least try. The vendor isn’t bound to a sale when you put in an online order

Agreed. Any vendor worth their salt has multiple layers of protection in place to cover exactly this sort of situation. At my company - yes, orders drop into our fulfillment system automatically, but every single one of them is reviewed by a human and approved individually before we send it down to the warehouse for shipping. And while I know WWC does good volume for a coral retailer, I'm sure they don't have so many shipments going on at once that they can't do the same.

It's really only once you get up to Amazon scale where you lose the ability to police yourself and rely entirely on automated systems and best practices to prevent something like the inventory sticker for the individual item being placed on the case pack for the item. So when someone orders one individual piece for $2.59, they don't instead receive a pack of 12 of those items for $2.59.

Not that I've ever been the recipient of such a buy-one, get-eleven blunder from Amazon, no, certainly not.

 

[jdpeters]

Not really unethical.

Any vendor has the choice to refuse a sale and refund. Doesn’t hurt to at least try. The vendor isn’t bound to a sale when you put in an online order

Interesting I didn’t know that. I get a ton of value out of their YouTube content and it’s entirely free, that was fresh in my mind

 

[bluemon]

I also saw those last night, but I'm not sure that wholesale price makes much sense. My company runs our sites on the Shopify platform as well, and wholesale pricing isn't typically a parameter you would include on any inventory upload. On the other hand, Shopify does retain records of past sale events that you've done, and if you're not careful it would be pretty easy to re-activate a sale.

It is of course possible that someone dropped in a spreadsheet with wholesale pricing on it to their regular inventory link instead of the correct retail one.

Yea it’s just that the WS acronym can work for wholesale. It could be something like Winter Sale as well but who knows?

At least according to WWC it was a past sale from 2-3 years ago so it’s probably that

 

[kboogie]

I was curious so I placed an order last night but they refunded it today

Apparently according to them, it’s from a sale 2-3 years ago? But I feel like these might be wholesale prices

I think they are wholesale prices as well.