Insane New Pieces!!!

larangcon · Mar 26, 2016

Ben is a great guy, bought several times from him and each time I have received some awesome freebies and these are not regular corals his freebies are also top notch. When one did not make it even though I had it for a while Ben replaced it.

dvbrien · Mar 26, 2016

Never did I say Ben wasn't a good person, guy or whatever. I insinuated the prices he gave me were not representative of the title he listed. I also expected this to be a WYSIWYG. Not buy each polyp individually... When you ask people to text you for prices on ea item listed, the number is all inclusive IMO. I've never seen anyone do business like this before. Assume people have never bought from you and disclose this before hand and I would have never inquired about prices. I also question why... when everyone else is bound to the site and forum rule and has to list prices in the post, why are venders selectively excluded from this forum rule. Regardless I'm over it. I'll stick to my regular means of purchasing corals. In person with a handshake...

joshkirkland83 · Mar 26, 2016

dvbrien said:
1st How can you lowball someone when you don't make an offer... 2nd, The guy said I was being rude before he even responded to me the first time... you can clearly see my question about 3 items. How is that rude? Third when he sent me his prices asking $180 per polyp not considering I was buying multiple items how is that an insane package pricing (his title, not mine)? I'm new here so you're going to take advantage of it? I don't ever offer anything less than what someone is asking, but when your post says package deal and you send me full on prices that I can find locally in Chicago will call you out for it... I don't need to "regroup" You have no idea what was sent in pm for you to be attacking me when you can clearly see I wasn't being rude... why because you don't know me, because I'm new? Well welcome to the community heh... also pretty sure this includes vendors.

Sellers

A firm asking price must be listed in the thread.

Someone didnt read the ruuuules.

go29 · Mar 26, 2016

Guess i don't see your point here.... his title "Insane new pieces" or description "pm for price" ... neither of which insinuates anything your complaining about. This is a WYSIWYG, just some corals (acans for instance) he may offer to sell by the polyp pricing wise as most people wouldn't be able to afford a colony of some of the insane things he has (most vendors I have worked with sell TONS of corals my the "head"). Most of the coral pictured (brains, acantho etc) would fall under exactly what you are referring to.... price for the whole coral.

Agree this is beating a dead horse, but seriously who comes on a vendor forum, gets pricing and then publicly complains about it? If your unsatisfied don't purchase from him, but to post and complain about pricing, in my opinion, is kinda childish.We are all adults, and as fellow reefers lets chill out and enjoy the hobby