View Full Version : finally found a asterophysus batrachus!!killer price too
BIGcat419
10-24-2008, 5:08 AM
So,for the past couple of weeks i've been trying to find a gulper for a fair price.It seems that around here in Ohio it's hard to find one for less the $400.But,believe it or not,I managed to come across one at a Petland.With no price,I go up to the kid working back in fish and ask,so how much for that guy?He thinks for a second,probably trying to think of a high price so he can rip me off,he's like uhh...$25 sound ok?So either nobody there knew what they had and it was a wholesaler mishap,or he didn't know and is now currently unemployed..Either way,my gulper is alive and happy.And $25 bucks for a 6" Asterophysus Batrachus is a pretty amazing thing:headbang2
benzjamin13
10-24-2008, 5:27 AM
Nice steal...deal!:D
blue_pill85
10-24-2008, 5:45 AM
hahah awesome! i love those kids!
blurock
10-24-2008, 6:47 AM
Awesome deal! I got a 4" Frontosa that way... all the 1-1.5" fronts in the area were going for $20 and I got a 4" for $7 cause the girl working thought it was a mbuna :D
Works for me! Gotta love them knowledgeable employees!
Kevaldo
10-24-2008, 7:04 AM
fantastic pick-up, bet the kid was like to his boss "guess what i made us $25 of that catfish":ROFL:
Bogwoodbruce
10-24-2008, 8:50 AM
That is the best steal ever LOL.
Damn!
Poor kid. He might lose his job if the owner knows exactly how much the fish costs.
basslover34
10-24-2008, 9:25 AM
Poor kid. He might lose his job if the owner knows exactly how much the fish costs.
All that much more important that they properly train their employees and ensure that all fish are correctly labeled and priced properly on the display :D
:thumbsup: nice deal!! I'll give you $50 for it :D
All that much more important that they properly train their employees and ensure that all fish are correctly labeled and priced properly on the display :D
:thumbsup: nice deal!! I'll give you $50 for it :D
LOL...I suppose it is lesson learned for the LFS owner for not labeling the fish properly. He can't blame the kid though for what had happened. Serves him right for not labeling the fish and put the tag.
kntrygrl4lyfe
10-24-2008, 10:34 AM
That's why I LOVE my Petland! I usually go for those new workers who don't know what they are doing. I've gotten so many fish for a good deal. Most the time the correct price and name was on the tank, they just didn't know.
basslover34
10-24-2008, 1:30 PM
That's why I LOVE my Petland! I usually go for those new workers who don't know what they are doing. I've gotten so many fish for a good deal. Most the time the correct price and name was on the tank, they just didn't know.
:WHOA: Thats not nice.... it's funny and I would do it ... but it's not nice :ROFL:it's getting hard to go into stores around here now though... everyone knows me... :irked: can't play dumb to them anymore to get good deals
Miguel
10-24-2008, 1:32 PM
:WHOA: Thats not nice.... it's funny and I would do it ... but it's not nice :ROFL:it's getting hard to go into stores around here now though... everyone knows me... :irked: can't play dumb to them anymore to get good deals
heheh the same happens with me.......with an added problem that in here they think that anybody who likes our kind of fish is rich.
Bogwoodbruce
10-24-2008, 2:26 PM
heheh the same happens with me.......with an added problem that in here they think that anybody who likes our kind of fish is rich.
Same thing in shops over here, if you like monster fish everybdoy asumes that you have no life because as a customer said to me 'its just a fish' ive spent about £300 if not more in the last 2 months on fish, without food costs etc...
benzjamin13
10-24-2008, 2:29 PM
I don't think that kid will get into too much trouble. The owner probably bought the Gulper for that price himself anyways...if not less.
synodontisjack
10-24-2008, 2:36 PM
steal, any pics?:D
BIGcat419
11-01-2008, 6:24 AM
not too great of a pic,but this is him after eating a 8" dragon goby.
BIGcat419
11-01-2008, 6:33 AM
In all reality,it's everyones fault in some way.I don't feel bad about it simply because,the kid can't be blamed for selling it for so cheap.He didn't know and I wasn't going to drive all the way back there the next day just to talk to the manager about prices.I've been back since then and the kid still works there lol,it was just one of those "right place,right time" kinda things.Plus,I've found two places around me that sell them for $65.so it's not that big of a rip off.i'm still happy i got him tho..