this LFS sold fake gobies
About a two weeks ago I sold a full hatch of baby convicts that still had their baby shape but had gotten their stripes. They were about 3 weeks old. I sold them to a LFS that I had never heard of, but they called me. Anyway, I couldn't take them over to the store that week, so I had a friend who knew the store do it. So, a week or so goes by, and then my friend calls me (this was yesterday) , he's all excited because there's a 2" zebra pleco going for
$75 at that same store, and would I come look at it since he knows I've kept zebras. So, i go over, and I'm happy because I like to see zebras in the hobby. I get there and meet my friend, and he takes me to the pleco tank, points out the zebra, and lo and behold, it could be..... it might be..... it isn't, it's a royal instead. Keep in mind the store had it labeled as a zebra, and I don't think it was incidental, because I would have payed max $20 for what they were selling. So, my friend is all disappointed and we head for the front to tell the owner. I figure before we get there that i'll see what they did with my convicts, so I start reading the labels on the tanks, and no convicts. I figure then that they sold them as feeders, so I ceck the feeder tank, and it has nothing but guppies. I start looking at the actual fish, and there they are...in a tank marked 'freshwater bumblebee gobies, $25 each' 
So I chew out the owner, and he just keeps denying it . Finally, he offers me $200 to pay for the *gobies* that he bought
. I'm like, look, they're CONVICTS I know, I sold them to you.
I took the money as his punishment, then called everyone I knew and told them never to buy from that store.
so, anyone else have any good counterfeit fish stories to offer?
About a two weeks ago I sold a full hatch of baby convicts that still had their baby shape but had gotten their stripes. They were about 3 weeks old. I sold them to a LFS that I had never heard of, but they called me. Anyway, I couldn't take them over to the store that week, so I had a friend who knew the store do it. So, a week or so goes by, and then my friend calls me (this was yesterday) , he's all excited because there's a 2" zebra pleco going for
$75 at that same store, and would I come look at it since he knows I've kept zebras. So, i go over, and I'm happy because I like to see zebras in the hobby. I get there and meet my friend, and he takes me to the pleco tank, points out the zebra, and lo and behold, it could be..... it might be..... it isn't, it's a royal instead. Keep in mind the store had it labeled as a zebra, and I don't think it was incidental, because I would have payed max $20 for what they were selling. So, my friend is all disappointed and we head for the front to tell the owner. I figure before we get there that i'll see what they did with my convicts, so I start reading the labels on the tanks, and no convicts. I figure then that they sold them as feeders, so I ceck the feeder tank, and it has nothing but guppies. I start looking at the actual fish, and there they are...in a tank marked 'freshwater bumblebee gobies, $25 each' So I chew out the owner, and he just keeps denying it . Finally, he offers me $200 to pay for the *gobies* that he bought
. I'm like, look, they're CONVICTS I know, I sold them to you.I took the money as his punishment, then called everyone I knew and told them never to buy from that store.
so, anyone else have any good counterfeit fish stories to offer?
See what he pulls out of his ass... 