FX5 price confusion

Wish it wasn't so close to Christmas I'd snap one up!
Would it be a bit over kill on a 155 liter:v)


Mark

I know of a chap, a member thats had 2 fx5s and a 405 on a rio 180



Mark

Wow his water must be very clean I'm surprised they didn't suck up all his fish!
Maybe after Christmas Ian will still do the same deal?

Mark

Mark. wrote:

I know of a chap, a member thats had 2 fx5s and a 405 on a rio 180



Mark

What was he keeping? Mermaids?

Jay

the funniest post on the website every.had me rollin'

Mark. wrote:

I know of a chap, a member thats had 2 fx5s and a 405 on a rio 180
Mark

He must have use the tank as a washmachine then

arabu1973 wrote:

Mark. wrote:

I know of a chap, a member thats had 2 fx5s and a 405 on a rio 180
Mark

He must have use the tank as a washmachine then

Ever heard of an adjustable flow:laugh:

Arowana temporary home it was and no it wasn't like a washing machine:laugh: It was crystal clear water, shrimp clear,



Mark

Folks,
To be fair the sponsors, there’s even more to the pricing than they’ve put on here.
For instance, one of the major costs that the online retailers don’t pay for is keeping a shop open to the public. I can’t imagine what the price of public liability insurance is for a place that mixes large quantities of glass, water and electricity and gets full of kids.

It isn’t just about wholesalers screwing people over either. They can give better prices to big online retailers because of the volumes involved. They’ll also give them longer credit – 90 days instead of 30 – because there’s lower risk of not being paid compared to a little small shop on a bankrupt little island off the coast of Europe. Then, when you’re depositing millions in the bank for an extra 60 days, you can make money by careful cash management – that’s how the big supermarkets can do below-cost selling and wipe out your local corner shop.

Often, if they’re big enough, the online guys are probably skipping the wholesalers and ordering directly from manufacturers. If you buy a Fluval 305 from Gavin at FFF, he’s got to have them in stock. They probably came in on a shipment to the UK. This was opened up and divided up by the distributor and various amounts sent to wholesalers. The wholesalers then got them in, unpacked them and grouped them into deliveries to retailers. These then got put in a van and driven to the ferry and eventually to the shop, where they were unpacked checked and put on shelves.

Contrast this with zooplus or amazon where a whole container probably arrived at their warehouse and the contents dumped into picking bins. When you order online, a picking list is automatically generated, prints out in the warehouse, the lads stick it in the box put a Deutschepost label on it and stick it in the post.

Your lfs can’t compete with this on price.

But your LFS wins on every other front. When you’re in the middle of setting up a tank and run out of gravel, you can jump in the car, go to Aquatic village and YOU CAN HAVE IT NOW! If your heater breaks down – you can have one today! If you bought it here, you can bring it back. If you want to buy something, you can pick it up, feel it, think about it, shoot the breeze about it, look in the box and come back tomorrow. You can go to Xeon in Seahorse and he might give you a cheaper and better option you never thought of.

If you buy online and its broken – you have to pay to send it back. If it breaks down 18 months later but within warranty, do you think they want to hear? If its from outside the EU, customs can stick any extra charge they want on it. If customs want to investigate, they can take it apart and wreck it and you have no comeback.

A lot of interesting comments, LFS are not on the rip is the general feeling, but a price tag of €500 is a very expensive point to make, who would pay the €500 over the €171 to make that point?


Just curious


Mark

some one not felling the pressure of this financial state we are in, and that use 50 bills as jacks roll.