What does everyone think of this?
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Breakthecycle2
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I have no problem spending that for a frag of this.
loquillo3411
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i would work two jobs just to get one of these
+1... I choose not to pay extremely inflated prices simply because something is pretty. I can find other corals at a reasonable price that are very nice. If everyone would stick together and refuse to pay $1000 per polyp of krack then the vendors would have to be conservative with the prices.
400$ for a nice chunk of a master scolly that already has multiple mouths is not inflated... In fact that's fairly close to the wholesale price of a single master as it is... Now paying 1000$ for a single polyp is insane yes, but if people are paying it why would the vendors undercut themselves??
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If we as hobbyist pay that high price then the suppliers charge more.... It trickles up. If nobody bought a master scoly for 3 months what do you think would happen to that price?
First off If were going to be honest here... a Master Scolly is a MASTER for a reason.. they are RARE.. the suppliers send ONE per every 10,000$ spent.. Scolymia are not easily reproducing corals as in if it didnt come out of the ocean with multiple heads good chances are it will remain a single head. Now this is a 5 MOUTH MASTER.. not 2, not 3 not 4... 5 Mouths... pretty much as rare as it gets. Now tell me why its overpriced? These arent palys zoas or a chalice which depending on conditions can grow/ reproduce very fast.. Secondly Suppliers dont raise the prices bc hobbiest pay absurd prices... RETAILERS raise the prices to astronomical numbers because people are paying them... Something like this is worth every penny to a collector. It is not "Hyped up" Its truly a RARE piece. I would say rich was being conservative on the 2k number this piece could bring as a whole.. the whole "if nobody bought them the price would drop" mentality is irrelevant because There will never be enough master scollys for all the people that want them and agree they are an INCREDIBLE specimen of Coral.
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It might have cost that vendor $1000 or they had to buy 20 other crappy grade a corals to fill a box to get it. I'm in the biz my self and you have to take advantage of rare pieces if you want to keep the doors open.
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It is all supply and demand. The less the supply in this case rare in higher the price. In other coral like paly and chalice which are not rare but demand high price if you want it. Gasoline, milk, sugar, designer clothes even diamonds are not in short supply but if people want it they will pay the price for it. You may get a segment of population to boycott high prices, but it is a big hobby. Someone will pay it if they want it. This is every day living. A scoly that looks like that is much more rare than a diamond. Now $300 for a paly is way too much but in a hobby of millions someone will pay it if they want it. A scoly like that may never come around again.
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I wouldn't risk fragging a coral like that. Not the easiest to heal.
Cornbred is one of the best in the biz im pretty sure if he cuts it he wont sell anything short of a perfectly healed frag.. its the hobbiests that think a store can come into a wholesale and buy one rainbow acan colony one rainbow chalice and a master scolly and they are just turning around and flipping these pieces for astronomical numbers... it DOES NOT WORK LIKE THIS... You have to take a-grade stuff with the ultra... and then people wonder why the prices on the ultra stuff are higher..
Set 'em straight, Salty305 :thumb:
Would love to see this colony sold as a whole and not fragged, most of it's beauty (IMO) is in the growth form. With that said would be super interesting to find out if once fragged, will the frags then grow into the Symphyllia esque growth form of the mother.
Would love to see this colony sold as a whole and not fragged, most of it's beauty (IMO) is in the growth form. With that said would be super interesting to find out if once fragged, will the frags then grow into the Symphyllia esque growth form of the mother.
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It's already been fragged. The eBay listing has a wysiwyg pic.
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Best thing about being in America is the freedom. You can choose to buy that piece, you can choose not to. You can also voice your opinion on how you think it's to expensive, and not get censored, or how you think it's cheap! You can choose to believe it should be fragged, you can choose to believe it shouldn't be fragged, well, you get the idea!
That's a beautiful piece. If it's whole, I would buy it if I had the money. If it's fragged, I would probably buy a piece and hope it kept its color. Either way, somebody is getting an awesome piece.
That's a beautiful piece. If it's whole, I would buy it if I had the money. If it's fragged, I would probably buy a piece and hope it kept its color. Either way, somebody is getting an awesome piece.
Obviously cornbred has already fragged it since the pictures of the frags are on Ebay.... The entire piece is priceless though. You will more than likely see nothing like that again.
