Priceless! I thought it was a joke but it is actually a working link.. too funny.

lmao:lol:

Hey!

:mrgreen:

Fragalot has a chance to show they are a good business even if he's screwed up in the past. That is why we are trying. It's like a restaurant that has bad reviews etc people still want to try and see what it's like. This discussion is for the people that are thinking about it to be informed and make the choice. Our group went in to this thing knowing what the out come might be and we only made that choice from what we read. So information is power!

OMG did you see the deals on that site.... and it's all polished and shiney too...I don't think I can resist the sweet looking deals.... hey wait a minute isn't that the "Frags or Not" site ..... shiney red ball SHINEY RED BALL!!! It won't happen to me again I'm ordering!!!

(In the voice of The Twilight Zone guy) And so ends the day of another reefer sucked into the vortex of corals..


FYI Not directed at the people that are in the process of ordering , just a commentary

Are you guys doing community service?

It will take a lot more than just one order that goes great to fix his reputation. Fragalot has been doing bad business for years. The negative reviews are not just on canreef. Do a bit of research and you will find them on other reef sties as well. It blows my mind that some people are still willing to throw their money away when there are some great sponsors on here.

Not to mention the amount of advertising he is getting from this thread. We do have many very good places to order from that do pay for the right to advertise on our forum.

I,m just saying. :D

If our vendors had some of the zoas he has listed / pictured available I would be all over them, like white on rice.:biggrin: HINT HINT RC

I bought a skimmer from Aquarium Illusions about two weeks ago Reef Octopus BH-2000 very good skimmer was sucking crap out after 24 hours They gave me a great price and service was awesome...... I will some day order from Red Coral, I saw a post recently about them shipping I think into Ontario, so service shouldn't be a problem...... Maybe we should throw out some good reviews about paying sponsers until more feed back comes in from the people reporting... beats the in fighting that's flairing up....

I just got a Reef Octopus RPS-3000 RC ( not from a vendor though ) it was sucking crap out in just a few hours, very happy with it.

Hey i'm one of the first to share my money around with locals and mail order from across Canada.I agree with supporting locals but when your local stores have a limited poor selection we have to look else where. This is where the risk is waived on by because if we get bad stuff from him its no better from our local lfs. So hence its worth a try.

awwwww doug you mean no group order from fragalot?? now im dissapointed i guess i could just throw money in the toilet its just as rewarding heheh:):)

Well, to be fair, it isn't entirely throwing our money away... we did get most of the frags we ordered (with a promise that the rest will follow) and the majority are in good health and doing well... so it's not entirely fair to say that it's "throwing our money away". And, truthfully, it's the $10/frag deal that got me interested to begin with. I mean, it doesn't represent a huge investment if things go down the tubes. Also, please bear in mind that I live in Newfoundland - I'd love to order from the vendors you mention but they are all out West for the most part and I haven't had great experiences with shipping livestock all the way across the country (limited experience admittedly) and fragalot is in Ontario.

:question: huh :question:

Guess I'm getting so famous that I'm getting shout outs on threads I haven't previously commented on :lol:

I'm Laurie and Doug (my boyfriend) is Fishytime.

Not offended at all....although you'd think my fame on here should of preceded me, and you'd know who I was :lol: :razz: :mrgreen: j/k of course :wink:

So I've so far had no luck in getting a response to my emails regarding having him ship the remainder of the frags we ordered that weren't in the first shipment..... starting to sound kind of familiar....

Same old same old... how are the ones you got making out?

Im still hoping our order ships tomorrow.............but I guess we will have to wait and see.

have you tried to phone him???

Does he return is call? never did for me.

Oh, they're doing really well, no problems there - but I only got half of my part of the order!

can you post some pics of the corals you did get?

Bill

I just don't get how a business can "forget" to enclose part of an order.. And do this on order after order. You would think it would be as simple as printing off the order and checking off each frag as it's packed up... When all the items on the order are checked off... Bam the order is complete.

I have thought of buying from him. I live about an hour from him. I do know of ppl from another forum that buy from him all the time. He even does meet and greet in our area.

Read all of this thread and in my area there are many locals to buy from so I am gonna stay away from Fragitsnot!

I'm sure if you could go and pick up your frags in person they would be fine......but believe me....from someone who has had the pleasure of dealing with Burk threw shipping, I would strongly urge you to go a different route.

well our shipment is on route right now so will find out tomorrow how good or bad he really is. We ordered nearly 100 frags so its gonna be fun if he didn't label the bags!!!:sad:

How many!!!! :jaw: I wish you luck honest... but that is like jumping from the plane and not having your parachute completely on...

We all new what we were getting into with this order but thought it was worth a try! Crazy I know lol. He has to get it right at some point so why not start with ours :smile:

Innocent optimism, where would the world be without it?

Probably burnt to a crisp.

Actually seems like he doesn't as people still can't resist lol.

Just wanted to give you guys an update. We recieved our second package today - much better than the first. All colorful and healthy frags in great shape and with awesome colors. And just what we ordered this time! He even replaced the DOA's and erroneous substitutes from the first batch. So everyhting worked out well. Despite the fact that we probably should have received everything we ordered in the first box, we are generally happy (and feel really lucky!)

Well at least Burk seemed to pull his head out of his a$$ and made things right for your order and it didn't take months for him to do so. When do we get to see some pics of what you received?

man, if I had some photography skills you'd be looking at them now. As it is, I couldn't do them justice anyway. I might try taking some when everything opens up to give you some idea anyway but we'll see.

Don't need skills just look at most of my crappy iPhone pics :biggrin:

I hope you funded your transaction with a major credit card, because if he burns you no matter what pay pal says you can always call your credit card company and have the charge reversed for the missing items,

Been there done that.

OK so here's the status of our order........

First order arrived with only half of what we ordered. After a little running around we received a second order which has a few frags missing, I think he held them back to cover the shipping of the second order. All in all if you can put up with the hassle of ordering from him the stuff he seems to send is very good quality. Everyone here seems to be happy with what they got(even if it wasn't what they ordered) As to whether I would order again is a very tough question! It would have to be a good deal and some thing I wanted real bad. Hope this discussion helps you guys out that are on the fence!!

I read the first bit of this thread on Weds, decided to place an order Weds night so I could try him out myself. I emailed him first to see if the site was up to date and he emailed me back within 5 minutes saying that it was so I went ahead and ordered some Aussie Acans. My items were shipped the following morning and arrived before noon this morning. Everything seems to be doing fine and I'm definately satisified with the size of the frags. He will get my business again.

Here they are fresh outta their bags and in the coral dip
http://i1182.photobucket.com/albums/...k/592304db.jpg

It looks more than 1" x 1" as stated on website - is it?

The top 3 were double frags and the bottom was a single