ryanjury Posted April 7, 2007 Report Share Posted April 7, 2007 An electric yellow selling for $99 in a shop? http://www.trademe.co.nz/Home-living/Pe ... 992784.htm Damn! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Afrikan Posted April 7, 2007 Report Share Posted April 7, 2007 $99 for an Electric Yellow? Surely it's a typo?????? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryanjury Posted April 7, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 7, 2007 YEah would hope so.. Ive always seen them for $19 to $25 in auckland... Regardless of size if you get a bigger one you get lucky.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smidey Posted April 7, 2007 Report Share Posted April 7, 2007 maybe the trader who is a member here will comment Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryanjury Posted April 7, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 7, 2007 YEah was just wondering if anyone had actually seen it.. I know i spend alot of time in petshops and never had.. who would pay it? When you can get a yellow for like $5-10 from a breeder.. Hopefully the trader is a member here and can let us know where and when they saw this! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johannes Visser Posted April 7, 2007 Report Share Posted April 7, 2007 LPS in mount Eden no typo error Spoke to Kyle about the price, he said they paid a Fair bit for them !! They were around 12- 13cm. Two weeks ago. For the size and brilliance of the fish I guess they can charge what they want thought I would mention it, seen these fish are very much bigger the the average ones you find around. Best to ask Kyle if they actually sold any a that price or if they have reduced the price. Have not been out to the LPS this past week so I don't know !! Lynn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bulldogod Posted April 8, 2007 Report Share Posted April 8, 2007 went to proberly the same shop in mt Eden few weeks ago and saw same thing, I paid $30 for a big one at shop in hendersn, moment of weakness, wouldnt normally pay that :oops: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Afrikan Posted April 8, 2007 Report Share Posted April 8, 2007 Gee surely it would be a one off that stores charge that, I mean are they literally gold plated or what? :-? I got a beautiful electric yellow male, who was around the 13-14cm mark for $18... to me that was a bargain and being in the right place at the right time. I have never seen Electric Yellows of that size retail for $99 down this way.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tropheus Posted April 8, 2007 Report Share Posted April 8, 2007 $30 for full grown EY not a bad price. I guess I would pay that as well. Just comes down to the individual. $99 for EY. DREAMERS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
herefishiefishie Posted April 8, 2007 Report Share Posted April 8, 2007 If that is the ones that are in the pic. I would hardly say they are high quality. I should hit Brad up for more on the ones I trade to him :lol: I didn't even pay that for lion cove imports. Frenchy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Posted April 8, 2007 Report Share Posted April 8, 2007 Sounds like Dogmatrix would be the one to check the price with if I am picking my shops correctly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GZ_Loach Posted April 8, 2007 Report Share Posted April 8, 2007 $30 for full grown EY not a bad price. I guess I would pay that as well. Just comes down to the individual. $99 for EY. DREAMERS fork out another $40 and get a zebra pleco Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Afrikan Posted April 8, 2007 Report Share Posted April 8, 2007 A Zebra Pleco? Where have you seen those for sale JZ? If only $40 extra to fork out for a true Zebra Pleco, then you most certainly know of a source that has a real bargain :lol: :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DG Posted April 8, 2007 Report Share Posted April 8, 2007 i too have seen them for $30 but $99 is just ludicrious, think they need their head read personally Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryanjury Posted April 8, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 8, 2007 Hey by any chance were the 99 yellows on the 1st of april.. I just cant believe it.. And also think its a bit rough to market the fish on trademe sort of implying that they retail for 99 when in actual fact if they did at one stage thats not a usual retail price.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A.PROPHECY Posted April 8, 2007 Report Share Posted April 8, 2007 wev dropd the price , we payd way to much for them, anyway there $69 now :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryanjury Posted April 8, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 8, 2007 haha where did they come from? The wholesale list or private? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Afrikan Posted April 8, 2007 Report Share Posted April 8, 2007 I know of one wholesaler who sells largish Africans on the list, and they are very high wholesale prices, so the shop price would have to be pretty up there.. frankly I wouldn't bother, most people are just as happy buying a really nicely coloured Electric Yellow to grow on. This particular list also sells "Electric Blues" however, next to the name it then states "Pseudotropheus" :lol: It could end up rather confusing for some LFS out there who aren't African minded, when they could possibly get fryeri in their minds and then end up getting a Zebra... :roll: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smidey Posted April 8, 2007 Report Share Posted April 8, 2007 market value is what people will pay for em. if the supplier thinks they can get more coin for em they try. the stores need to regulate their buy prices to keep things even. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A.PROPHECY Posted April 8, 2007 Report Share Posted April 8, 2007 wholesale :lol: yea we didnt expect to pay that much we expected to get good hook ups lol ges not Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cichlid7 Posted April 8, 2007 Report Share Posted April 8, 2007 In ORGAMISM the E. Blues are $84.95 each BUT The E. Yellows Were only like $19.95 there is no way anyone would pay $99 for an E. Yellow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
herefishiefishie Posted April 8, 2007 Report Share Posted April 8, 2007 Market value. Funny term that. Over here the legal imports of Africans are very limited, peacocks... I got some fish that had been brought in illegally over here. The Lion Coves I got were 1/4 that price. {Okay 3-5cm} but still back door specials should be expensive. The White Calvus were a pretty{same as the yellows in question} penny, but now they are hard to come buy. I don't know how something legally imported could fetch such a price. Frenchy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghostknife Posted April 8, 2007 Report Share Posted April 8, 2007 this sounds like an bit of a pick on me as the person was only saying what they saw and it has been conformed that that was the price it is a bit over the top for a fish but with all of us selling the same thing cheaper how r the local pet store to survive also just to say that i have brought fish from above and they r top quality Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Posted April 8, 2007 Report Share Posted April 8, 2007 Could also blame their buyer as not seeing the market as others see it. TradeMe is a fair indicater of prices, and as in a shop if the price is too hot, don't buy it. Bet the buyer doesn't buy a line like that again huh?? By the way, who are you ghostknife, be nice to see you go to the welcome section and introduce yourself. I won't go there and welcome you, I'll do it now. Be interesting to see what fish you have bought from them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
herefishiefishie Posted April 9, 2007 Report Share Posted April 9, 2007 I think the starting price on Trade me is fair. The $99 in a lfs isn't. The shop has made an error in my view. If they paid $30-40 or more from a wholesaler or breeder, then they just made a mistake, thats all. They should of realised roughly what the market value is. Probably was $90-100 at one stage, cichlids breed, market value has dropped. Over here we can buy cichlids off wholesalers. If the wholesaler bought from a breeder,{limited african imports here} then the wholesaler has their mark up. The lfs buys them, adds their own mark up, then sells to customer. eg; Black Calvus are $xx on one wholesale list, yet a lfs could only sell them for that price. The smart shop, that wants to sell Black Calvus goes & finds a breeder & buys direct, cut out the middle man. Frenchy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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