Pricing
Takphan, thankyou, and I can understand what you mean. I can understand where you are coming from as I have taken several accounting courses as well, in my pursuit of a business degree.
You put it perfectly when you said that it was a double edged sword.
I think that all in all what has frustraqted the staff at Big Als is that when you see something as a percula clown that is 89.99, why dont you ask why this is. When you come on this board, and just flame the heck out of us, it is discouraging. Surely you can see "the other edge of the sword" we are talking about (Tony's S. Gigantea, AJ's 25 dollar 5-6 inch BLONDE naso tang, etc...) You hear all the bad on this board, and very few, but some, come on here and say, Big Als has large banggai cardinals for 25 bucks and they are 25 % off on Boxing Week (spikehs, who bought 2 today, just an example). Take the good with the bad, ask me why the clowns are 90 bucks and who knows, you might just find out the reason.
Anyways, the reason the clowns were so expensive was that it was a new supplier we were using to try to add more variety of livestock to the store, there were some hidden charges that were unexpected. When these fish, that were packed quite heavily landed in Vancouver, a bunch of the boxes were leaking so we had to put them on air canada as no other airline will take them if there are one leak, or no cardboard. The order was then delayed in shipping which makes our mortality rate go up.
There are many, many considerations to take into account from everything down to an extra cup of water per bag, down to me having to pay a couple of employees to pick up and put away fish at 3 o'clock in the morning. I think that pricing livestock is a bit more difficult than some of you think, and I thank all of you for your support on both edges of the sword.
I do agree with Takphan that it may be easier to set a standard price for an item, but as I also have a couple of hobbies of my own, I know what it feels like to find that killer deal as well.
The only other topic I have not really covered is the tank prices. I apoloigize if something may have been mislabeled, but I can put a personal guarantee that the prices on tanks, have not changed on tanks in the last 6-8 months. 6-8 months ago we brought the prices down to be more competitive with the smaller stores in town. Our tanks are all perfecto, except for custom tanks, and made of all new glass, not your shower door variety.
regards,
Nate
Big Als Calgary
640-0635
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