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Originally Posted by SoloSK71
Add me to this question, I have been researching CITES permits and am more confused than when I started, but the selection online in the US beats anything I have seen in Canada and usually at half the price. I would even look at a group buy on a full box of coral to get the selection I want and frags at actual cost.
Charles
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With one box of corals and permits and shipping you are looking at about 500% of list price for each coral. Probably even more. Looking at 10 boxes, now you are down to 200% of list price if you're lucky.
There is a reason that every coral shop in Canada doesn't fill their tanks with the cheap american frags, it's because by the time they get here even their cost is far higher than pretty much everyone is willing to pay. And that's before they make some money to cover their time to get the corals, to unpack the corals, sell the corals, and then a little to keep the lights on, and a little bit of lunch money for the owner.
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Originally Posted by albert_dao
LOL, what? Canadian selection is wicked and most pricing I have seen is very reasonable. Don't confuse photoshop or BS naming conventions with selection...
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Show me anywhere in Canada with some of the nice sps frags you can find easy in the states, silly names or not, find me corals that look like the ones with the silly names. The only one that was close was reefraft, and he's gone. I had almost a thousand bucks worth of coral I wanted from him, but he up and left in the middle of me trying to order a bunch of stuff.