If it's price and only price we are talking about then even the " big " stores here in Calgary refuse to compete ... the VHO bulb example was a large store ... I gave them every opportunity to earn the biz and they turned me down flat ( did not try to meet halfway ... and box of the bulb was really ratty looking which tells me that NOBODY wants to pay those prices either so I told the guy helping me to put the dusty bulb back with the other dusty bulbs )
As far as corals ... we just dont see really nice acros very often and most stores either wont carry them or dont offer frags or charge absolutely outrageous prices for average pieces.
I am sure that everyone on this board would pay more to have quarantined fish locally.
As to bulbs ... are you suggesting that getting MH bulbs from Venki at less than 50 buck per bulb is harming the pet stores who want close to 200 per bulb and online around 125 ? ... I would guess that if they wanted to be compettitive they could have sourced out the bulbs from China just as Venki did and had people from all over MO from them too.
This is all a catch 22 in that if a LFS was to get compettitive then they would get all the biz going to MO and with increased volume be able to offer more selection.
Food for thought
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