Somethings wrong

[ZoWhat]

Somethings wrong when small corals are about the same price as a monthly rent payment or a car payment

Haven't really looked at corals for 6-9 mos, but i have recently....YOU PPL ARE NUTS

* Avg price of most corals on Marketplace $300-$400+ (maybe 1 out of 20 posts are under a $100)

* Avg price of eBay corals $250+ (come to expect hustlers gouging on ebay)

* Avg price of corals with any color among the LFSs in my area $200-$300+ (guess the biz model is to gouge the one customer rather than have 5 fairly priced sales)

Thank God my tank is 80% of where I want it..... and has been for years

When did coral prices jump 10x?

Not but 2 years ago the "Showroom Piece" was $200, maybe $250

You ppl are freakin' nuts.


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[Jekyl]

Every post on here asking for coral names makes me cringe... only purpose is jacking up prices.

 

[dedragon]

A little confused here, yes corals are more expensive but not all corals cost that much, almost every lfs has at least a $20 frag section

Every post on here asking for coral names makes me cringe... only purpose is jacking up prices.

Dont i know it, i try to id these corals and am just flat out saying it is a common coral with no special name and giving them a realistic price now. If i see another vendor try to sell a regular rhodactis mushroom as a micro bounce or even as bounce mushroom for like 200+ im gonna lose it

 

[ZoWhat]

almost every lfs has at least a $20 frag section

True .... filled with brown corals with no signs of life

Guess I'm getting old and crusty at 56

 

[NeonRabbit221B]

True .... filled with brown corals with no signs of life

Guess I'm getting old and crusty at 56

Ironically just like the $20 coral section at my LFS

 

[NashobaTek]

True .... filled with brown corals with no signs of life

Guess I'm getting old and crusty at 56

Don't feel bad, I see the prices on here and I'm thinking about just keeping Fowler. Dang I can't believe it!

 

[ReefStash Verified Sponsor]

The spike you are speaking of is primarily from Indo not being able to export for awhile... prices took a huge spike during that time, fortunately they are open for export again. Shops are also still recovering from closed doors over the last year. Think it will be awhile before some of these prices start to drop.

 

[NashobaTek]

The spike you are speaking of is primarily from Indo not being able to export for awhile... prices took a huge spike during that time, fortunately they are open for export again. Shops are also still recovering from closed doors over the last year. Think it will be awhile before some of these prices start to drop.

Indo I can understand, but the shops are price gouging in my opinion.

 

[ZoWhat]

The spike you are speaking of is primarily from Indo not being able to export for awhile... prices took a huge spike during that time, fortunately they are open for export again. Shops are also still recovering from closed doors over the last year. Think it will be awhile before some of these prices start to drop.

I guess the marketing model is to take the one sale and get huge profits -vs- getting 5 sales at moderate profits

I'm mean, heck look at Starbucks selling $7 coffees where across the street at the nice market inside a gas station, practically the same coffee for $1.49

This upcoming generation of 20 somethings are NUTS. No wonder your side hustle is selling your prescription drugs to friends

 

[ZoWhat]

Take my tank. I probably have let's say 2,000 polyps of zoa/palys in my 6ft 180g

You're saying my collection is modestly valued at $60,000? (If I could get roughly $30/polyp)

That's the value of a nicely equipped 2021 BMW 5 Series

Rrrrrrrright. YOU PPL ARE NUTS

 

[Joe462]

I haven't been inside a LFS for about a year so i can't speak to that but in my area there are plenty of cheap coral available from hobbyists.

The problem is generally people want really nice or uncommon or popular (sometimes not especially nice or rare, but thats supply and demand for you) corals for cheap coral prices.

and if you are looking on the market place here, my very limited experience is that most of the interest you receive will require shipping and its just not worth the effort, even if the buyer is paying shipping, to ship $50 worth or coral, so generally i'm not really going to bother posting the cheap stuff. So i think the items you see on the marketplace are not always representative of what is available out there locally. Just my thoughts on the matter.

 

[Jekyl]

My nem split last night. So now I have a Gary Busey's wet dream rainbow for sale. Only $1000. Guaranteed lineage.

 

[dedragon]

Any single polyp or very slow growing LPS will be affected especially right now from the pandemic and increase shipping costs around the boards. Online shops cant get around that and has to increase prices to compensate. But this "gotta catch em all" mentality surrounding the hobby has driven insane prices... torch corals ;Facepalm

 

[dedragon]

I suggest buying a good computer and sniping corals on livesales now if you really want any deals on high end corals, but its a pain in the butt, shipping prices are insane, and, if you want a pc, graphics cards are impossible to get.
Got to say i do love when codybot runs a game as it usually nets me a free shipping code, helping me justify my purchase a bit

 

[Saltyreef]

This upcoming generation of 20 somethings are NUTS. No wonder your side hustle is selling your prescription drugs to friends

LOL yea......theres way more 20 something year old druggies out there than 50 something year olds.....

 

[mdb_talon]

All i can say is you are looking at the wrong vendors or the wrong corals if you see those prices and think they are the "average". Sadly(just my opinion here) many of the major R2R sponsors are completely out of line with your average online vendor when it comes to prices.

I remember reasonable normal prices from vendors here and then the ability to get a good deal in a live sale. Now it is just massively jacked up prices and then 50-80% off during a live sale which still leaves them higher you can find on a dozen other sites. Of course they mix in some actual good deals rarely to keep people hitting that refresh button and buying into the hype.

I would plug Battlecorals though they are still what i remember years ago. Nice tank grown sps at reasonable prices especially on the Battleboxes. Buying all my sps from them right now.

 

[Saltyreef]

I remember when a loaf of bread cost a nickel!

 

[Saltyreef]

Also,
Most of the coral ive bought in the last 10 years, unless super hard to come by, has actually dropped in price.
So idk what yall complainin bout lol.

 

[Ricksreeefs]

Yeah some of these prices are crazy for coral. Luckily there are a lot of local people to me that are selling great corals for great prices like some Sunkist bounces that are 5" for literally $100

 

[SamBackspins]

I have 5 ish LFS in my area, two of them are really overpriced, but one of them regularly has 5 dollar frag sales that have some decent color.

if you want stuff on demand it’s pretty expensive, but if you’re willing to wait for some sales it’s a decent price