Do you call out high prices?

[ninjamyst]

When you see people selling common corals for ridiculous prices on Facebook group or forums, do you call them out on it? Is it rude to do so? If you do call them out, do you do it privately or public comment??

 

[TuxUrchin07]

Well I mean it's ur choice but I would just ignore it tbh

 

[sam.veilleux30]

When you see people selling common corals for ridiculous prices on Facebook group or forums, do you call them out on it? Is it rude to do so? If you do call them out, do you do it privately or public comment??

How dare you!
i always said that my gsp at 100$/frag were a real deal

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

When you see people selling common corals for ridiculous prices on Facebook group or forums, do you call them out on it? Is it rude to do so? If you do call them out, do you do it privately or public comment??

Nope. Capitalism works. We speak with dollars spent.

Imo, If someone is willing to pay the price for it, it's worth that much to them. How much it's worth to them is irrelevant to how much it's worth to you and if you are not the buyer at that price, the seller is not interested in your opinion of what you think it's worth.

I've watched this played out on Reddit many times. I just grab the popcorn cuz its quite funny.

 

[jda]

No.

I will sometimes correct wrongly listed item, color out of whack or misleading size. Somebody selling a rainbow as a sunburst will get a comment from me.

Price is up to the seller and the buyer.

 

[MaxTremors]

Nope. Capitalism works. We speak with dollars spent.

Imo, If someone is willing to pay the price for it, it's worth that much to them. How much it's worth to them is irrelevant to how much it's worth to you and if you are not the buyer at that price, the seller is not interested in your opinion of what you think it's worth.

I've watched this played out on Reddit many times. I just grab the popcorn cuz its quite funny.

I mean, I don’t want to make this an economics debate, but I wholly disagree, unleashed capitalism objectively doesn’t work. That said, we all have to live and work within the system we live and work, so I’m not going to fault someone for using it to make a living.

 

[Staghorn]

I only buy from highpricedcorals.com

 

[WVNed]

I mean, I don’t want to make this an economics debate, but I wholly disagree, unleashed capitalism objectively doesn’t work. That said, we all have to live and work within the system we live and work, so I’m not going to fault someone for using it to make a living.

LOL

 

[Nick Steele]

I will just move on in life. If it’s something I want I might open up and says it’s too high but that is for me personally and is the only time I’ll comment

 

[vetteguy53081]

I simply pass or ignore ad and do this:

 

[Rmckoy]

Everything has a price ..
the price I’m willing to pay might not be as high as what’s being asked .

Years ago . Yes I would call them out on the high gouging .
but now it’s easier and less stressful to ignore it and move forward.
Life is too short to be negative or pointing at someone else .
Worry about what’s in my own back yard before commenting about what’s on the other side of the fence .

turn a blind eye and move forward

 

[mehaffydr]

I think it is rude to comment on someones price. It is worth what someone is willing to pay and who am I or you to decide they are overpriced.

 

[Jekyl]

When you see people selling common corals for ridiculous prices on Facebook group or forums, do you call them out on it? Is it rude to do so? If you do call them out, do you do it privately or public comment??

I just don't buy any coral with a name attached to it.

 

[Rmckoy]

I just don't buy any coral with a name attached to it.

I buy most of my frags from the $10 section lol

still waiting to see Walt Disney frags around $30-$40

 

[Jekyl]

In my mind if a seller starts rambling off names of coral I think of 2 things
1: Theres no way I'll bother looking it up.
2: They're trying to charge me more.

 

[ninjamyst]

I want to call them out to prevent newcomers from being taken advantage of. And if enough people complain, won't the price come down to make the hobby more affordable for everyone?

 

[Rmckoy]

I want to call them out to prevent newcomers from being taken advantage of. And if enough people complain, won't the price come down to make the hobby more affordable for everyone?

I don’t see the prices dropping anytime soon.
especially after all this covid stuff .
seams everything had got more expensive to compensate for losses .

 

[MNFish]

I want to call them out to prevent newcomers from being taken advantage of. And if enough people complain, won't the price come down to make the hobby more affordable for everyone?

If enough people don't buy or buy from someone else the price will come down.... I can go into a corvette dealer and complain all day long the price is too high but if I don't actually have the means and want to buy it will not effect the market.

 

[Jekyl]

I don’t see the prices dropping anytime soon.
especially after all this covid stuff .
seams everything had got more expensive to compensate for losses .

Inflation is only going to get worse.

 

[S2G]

A public offer no. A pm message yes. Someone was trying to sell me a little yellow tang for $200 not long ago. Yeah no way I'm paying $200 for a yellow tang is what I said