Went into Wackers on Parnell st last week

They have gotten rid of almost all their tanks, \o/
surprising due to the fact they are the most expensive shop ive been in .
but now there is nothin else in dublin to look at on my lunch break.

YAh I really liked them before when I just immigrated 3 years ago with all those tanks and reptiles downstairs.

Hi,
no harm done to me.But that shows that the time for big shops with big overheads is gone.Hopefully we get back to the smaller shops with good quality.Regards,Tim

frontosa wrote:

Hi,
no harm done to me.But that shows that the time for big shops with big overheads is gone.Hopefully we get back to the smaller shops with good quallity.Regards,Tim

Er, that shop was a small shop with great quality, once upon a time!
It was the store and Gavin that got me back into keeping a few years ago.
Many many thousand of € later, that dude has a lot to answer for!!!

Lads you're all entitled to your opinions but one thing is that when you take stab at a shop you aren't just taking a stab at the shop, you are taking a stab at some of the people that may have worked or may be working their ass off in that shop. It's not easy to work in retail and some people genuinely do the best that they can possibly do, within the guidelines/ restrictions that may be set out by the people that have a hold on the purse strings. I'm not looking for a heated debate, just please bear what I have said in mind if any of you are tempted to slag off this or any other shop in the future.

By the way I don't find any of the comments that have gone ahead of this one to be all that insulting!


Edit: I must add that I am not speaking on behalf of Wackers or any shop, I no longer work in any petshop!

Nice one Rory,

The guys in most lfs nearly always try to help, always understand your disappointment and always or nearly always are paid a pittance and can be dismissed at the owners whim. I think I have struck up a good relationship with most of the guys and feel they are vilified regularly.

Kev.

I don't have any views on any of the above as I have never been to this shop but what I do have a problem with is that I got my wrist slapped several weeks ago for mentioning the name of a shop. How is this different??? Please see quote below!!!

If you wish to post about a specific retailer, do not mention their name and only refer to the retailer in the 3rd party

One of the things that encourages me to go the City Center is to pass by Parnell and up to know for some reason I still comebto say hello. I miss the usuall folks who are trully friendly and helpfully with questions. It's worth the visit and you'll never know what's in store in the future.

JohnH wrote:

By the way I don't find any of the comments that have gone ahead of this one to be all that insulting!

That's because nothing there was insulting there to either the shop or its employees, at least not that I saw.

John

That's why I said that I don't find any of the comments that have gone ahead of this one to be all that insulting!

JohnH wrote:

Fair comment,
John

Cheers mate, I hoped you would take that comment in good fun!

Haven't been into the shop on Parnell Street much recently but I had noticed the missing tanks when I dropped in a week or two ago. I had assumed that they were going to be moving them downstairs again, the way it used to be. Obviously I was wrong.

I didn't know that you had stopped working there, Rory. The shop will be the worse for it.

Aw thanks very much! There are still lots of people that work in the shops though that are excellent at what they do.

I haven't been to the parnell store for a good few while now.

Used to pop in to chat with Drew (I think it was his presence that originally took the store into the realms of a good selection of fish), then later with Gav (and I'm also a reptile keeper, so had a few things to chat to Gav with), a rather pleasant young lady, and some of the other guys (of whom I am not always certain of their names).

So, will that mean that there will be an even more limited selection of fish in the city centre? or might there be a revival.

Not too certain if I know who wolfsberg is.....but maybe we chatted at sometime. So, I'll say Hi.

ian

I used to visit this LFS on a weekly, and would buy fish and dry good almost every time i was there, but that was before they moved everything from downstairs. Since the move about of everything, i have not really visited the store, as the number of tanks has been reduced, and the variety of fish has been reduced greatly also.


-Brian

igmillichip wrote:

I haven't been to the parnell store for a good few while now.

Used to pop in to chat with Drew (I think it was his presence that originally took the store into the realms of a good selection of fish), then later with Gav (and I'm also a reptile keeper, so had a few things to chat to Gav with), a rather pleasant young lady, and some of the other guys (of whom I am not always certain of their names).

So, will that mean that there will be an even more limited selection of fish in the city centre? or might there be a revival.

Not too certain if I know who wolfsberg is.....but maybe we chatted at sometime. So, I'll say Hi.

ian

ahem..hate be picky but I was there before drew.I started the shop downstairs.....

Gavin wrote:

igmillichip wrote:

I haven't been to the parnell store for a good few while now.

Used to pop in to chat with Drew (I think it was his presence that originally took the store into the realms of a good selection of fish), then later with Gav (and I'm also a reptile keeper, so had a few things to chat to Gav with), a rather pleasant young lady, and some of the other guys (of whom I am not always certain of their names).

So, will that mean that there will be an even more limited selection of fish in the city centre? or might there be a revival.

Not too certain if I know who wolfsberg is.....but maybe we chatted at sometime. So, I'll say Hi.

ian

ahem..hate be picky but I was there before drew.I started the shop downstairs.....

Soz Gav.......I didn't know you back in them days when Drew was there.

I'd known Drew from a shop in Monkstown, and so he was the only one I recognised when I ventured into Parnell Street.

So, I'll take back my comments and say.....

due to me not knowing anyone else in Parnell Street, I, in retrospective correctness, mistakingly cited Drew without mentioning Gavin's name as forwarding the fish collection there.

If Justine found out that I'd done you mis-justice then I'd be nagged.

But, that doesn't explain where you where hiding in those days, Gav.....

I actually remember the first time of meeting you....November 2006 (we'd just got back from some falconary in Ashford Castle....not that we are millionaires to afford staying there loike).
Justine thought you were a thoroughly pleasant fellow.

ian