Coral Master Group Buy - Lower Mainland - Fall 2012
 

Hi Guys.
I am looking to organize a Coral Master group buy and want some feedback. I have organized two previous GB with another supplier using a public spreadsheet that I thought worked rather well and I am looking to do the same for this GB. Snappy has already committed one free frag, his choice, for personal orders over $100. I haven't worked out with him how shipping savings would work but I am hoping he commits to free shipping if we can get an order over an agreed amount.

1. When? When shall we place the order.
2. Where? Who can receive and float the bags until everyone arrives same day for pickup.
3. $$$ How much must we order before we see savings in regards to shipping.

Once we sort out the above questions I will begin to assemble the spreadsheet. DO NOT PM with orders at this time, I will ignore them.

Thanks!
Keith.

I might be able to help....

And I am in!

Let me know when we can order.

Id like to get in as well, however I'm quite reluctant as I've spent over 200$ with fragalot and currently I have about 5 alive and healthy frags (still have a 45$ credit from last order) - not much to show for unfortunately for 200$

Does anyone have any experiences with Coral Master?

Thanks,

I'm in

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i can hold them in my frag tank

I think everyone will attest to good experiences with greg. I personally have nothing but good to say. I got awesome frags from him :biggrin:

If you do a search here for Coral Master or Snappy, you'll see that he has overwhelmingly great reviews. I've bought dozens of frags, pretty sure all are still alive unless I did something to kill them.

In that case I will most likely jump on this boat when the time comes.

Cheers,

I would also be interested. I'll keep an eye on this thread.

Dunc

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Thanks for organizing Keith. Free shipping starts at $350 and of course applies to group orders. I have never used a spread sheet for group buys (& I've done many of them) and never had issues. If you really want to use it we can however I like to keep things as simple as possible. People just send me their individual orders and pay me directly either by EMT or through my website via paypal. The website tracks all orders and keeps track of stock quantities and updates as soon as an order is completed. All orders are individually packaged & clearly marked with people's names and each bag is clearly marked with the frag ID so there is no guess work as to what the corals are and who it's for. Please feel free to check around about my packaging of group orders and I'll think you'll find there is seldom any mix ups. All regular corals come with an "arrive alive-stay alive 10 day guarantee & advanced corals (marked as such on the site) have an arrive alive 24 hr. guarantee. It is very rare that there are any DOA corals and I always fix it ASAP. Again please check around and I'm sure this group will be able to order with confidence.
Thanks again,
Greg
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Thank you for your reply Greg. In the past we used the spreadsheet primarily to ensure then vendor has correct information at all times to minimize the likely hood of incorrect orders and to track that we met the free shipping requirement. If the spreadsheet is of no use to you then I have no problem not using it.

Sounds like payment is easy enough. Is shipping automatically added to the final cart purchase? If yes do you refund this somehow?

Keith, I can receive the order at my place if you want, it's pretty centralized location. I'll be in for purple poison and red dragon. Thanks

Sounds fine by me Bblinks, if anyone has a better suggestions I think your place to receive is perfect.

When to ship? I was thinking anytime really. How does ship Monday Sept 24th to arrive BBlinks morning of Tuesday the 25th sound to everyone? Snapper would these dates work for you?
Keith.

Is everyone planning on ordering SPS? I'm interested in LPS but it seems like the stock is very low on LPS.

Looking at the site again, I shouldn't have said the stock on LPS was low , I guess it's just the items that I was interested in that were out of stock lol. Acans and Ricordea.

For a group order I would assume that as a group you will be ordering enough for free shipping so when ordering on the site after you fill in your info mark it as a local pick up so it doesn't charge shipping. This has worked well in the past but if there are any issues with the site not cooperating please let me know.
I am confident you will be pleased with the way things are tagged and packaged. It's very, very seldom that I ship incorrect orders.

In theory this sounds just fine but the sooner the orders are placed the better so I am ready for you.
Thanks all you guys I appreciate your business.
Yeah sorry no acan or rics at the moment.

Keith what's your email address, I have done a few orders from back east the same way with spreadsheet just so everyone is clear of what they are getting. We can then put it through Greg's website as a single order, I don't mind slapping it on the visa and you guy can pay me back on pick up day. Or we can just place separate orders on the site and let Greg work it out. Either way I m good.

Hey Greg, I'm wanting to put an order in and am interested in the purple poison shortcake. I cannot for the life of me find another pic of this coral other than what's on your site to get a better idea of colors and growth pattern. Do you happen to have any other pictures of this colony?

Hey guys, please pm me what you want from snappy and your email address, I will send out the spreadsheet showing who wants what and how much. Some of you who I have dealt with before know the deal. I will then place the order all together to save some hassle. I will forward you the tracking number once I get it from snappy. I do expect everyone to be at my place that evening to pick up your order and once you are committed there is no backing out.

Thanks Rich

yes please.

Ok just for you I tentatively have some acans and rics coming in. The only rics available are orange but I found some pretty nice A grade acans.

Thanks Snappy , that's great news. Let me know what you have
Pm sent aswell

I have a few seperate chunks of this coral that I grouped together to make up a reasonable colony. Interestingly enough the different chunks are coloring up at very different rates and the frags have been even slower to color so far however they are all from the same original parent colony so I am not concerned. Anyway in the picture below you can see that the chunk on the right side has more color than the piece on the left but it is slowly catching up. I will tell you in advance that the frags of the PPS are healthy but are being very slow to color up and are still fairly browned out although my frag tanks are on a different system than my display with different lighting. That said, this is a coral I am excited about and it is a stunner. Given some time I don't think it will disappoint.

http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h2...ner02/PPS2.jpg

http://i1088.photobucket.com/albums/...s/IMG_0953.jpg

Hey Greg, thanks for the pic, I did recently purchased a piece that looked just like yours but it was sold to me as strawberry short cake but I did find a similar looking colony which was called strawberry lime cake. Just curious what you think. Above is my frag picture.

Thanks in advance for your time.
Rich

PPS should loose much of the green it's now showing. As things color up they often get green first and then switch to other colors.
The shortcake acros are typically a.microclados so there are bound to be some similarities.

Thanks again for the reply, I will order it and see how it does in my tank.

Sold!!! I'll place an order tonight when I get back home.

Ordering
 

BBlinks is taking any orders. He will consolidate and place the order on our behalf, please PM hime with what you want ASAP.
Keith

Okay guys, so far we have snaz(CM Bonsai #3,$40), scubasteve($110), me(pps & rd $125), Ginu(yet to determine), jus68(Pina Berry Favites,Blue Polyp Monti $65) almost there...

Come on guys. Need a few more to make the free shipping. Thanks.
Keith

To be clear I would like to order: Green Polyp Tri-Color Valida Thanks

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how do we pay for them-paypal ,zoompass,check?

You can pay via paypal on the website or check with Bblinks.

I cant find the new rics or acans on your site how much

PM BBlinks your order and he will slap down his plastic(brave man) and order for all of us. If you prefer to order directly just let BBlinks and Snappy know.

When you go to pickup from BBlinks bring money and pay him.
Keith

That is because I haven't picked them up from the airport yet.
I will have info up later today however according the invoice my supplier sent me last night it appears they only shipped about 1/4 of the acans I ordered so I don't know what I'll have available yet.

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pm sent

ouch thats sucks nothing like last minute cut eh lol

I might go in if there are some decent acans, but all I want is LPS too many SPS to choose from, Come on greg more LPS!