What are some ballpark figures for various sizes & species of dats? I am considering getting one, but I have been quoted a wide range of prices and sizes.
How much do dats cost?
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the search section and tab is your Friend
LOTS of info if you just look
to many prices to list at different sizes
this thread will only get others saying thats expensive i can get them for xx amount or wow thats cheap can you ship some to me
if you like the fish and YOU think its a fair price buy the fish if not walk away
i know for a fact i wouldn't let a fish i want get away just because its $20 more than a guide price i got from MFK or any other forum
lets be fair you have been a member of the forum from 2007 you must know if someone is trying to rip you of or not
LOTS of info if you just look
to many prices to list at different sizes
this thread will only get others saying thats expensive i can get them for xx amount or wow thats cheap can you ship some to me
if you like the fish and YOU think its a fair price buy the fish if not walk away
i know for a fact i wouldn't let a fish i want get away just because its $20 more than a guide price i got from MFK or any other forum
lets be fair you have been a member of the forum from 2007 you must know if someone is trying to rip you of or not
T1KARMANN;4256047; said:the search section and tab is your Friend
LOTS of info if you just look
to many prices to list at different sizes
this thread will only get others saying thats expensive i can get them for xx amount or wow thats cheap can you ship some to me
if you like the fish and YOU think its a fair price buy the fish if not walk away
i know for a fact i wouldn't let a fish i want get away just because its $20 more than a guide price i got from MFK or any other forum
lets be fair you have been a member of the forum from 2007 you must know if someone is trying to rip you of or not
Only in the last two weeks have I even paid any attention to dats. I was always told that they were a brackish species & I didn't have room for them anyway. Now I do. I had never priced them until recently when three of my LFSs gave me three very different prices. No book or mag is going to quote a price, so the point of the question is to get some opinions about how price is affected by size and species. I don't take anything I've ever been told on MFK (or anywhere else) as gospel, so I collect opinions. You certainly are correct that I should use the info contained in the older threads tho. I was hoping to generate some of the competetive ("...oh yeah? Well I can get em for $x!!!") posting you refered to, hopefully to my benefit. I am an on-again,off-again MFKer- only .11 posts per day, so I am still not 100% MFK site-literate. I bow down to your much greater MFK experience.
Thanks for the tips.
less than 1.5 inches usually around $20...depending on species it goes up from there and can get steep at around 7+ inches...This is just from what i have seen! hope it helps!
Gobrian44;4256652; said:
this is my point right hear
you have now been told $20 for 1.5 inch if you see a fish at 1.5 inch and the price is $21 will you not buy it because its not the price you have been told
at $20 the fish is not expencive now if you like that fish a lot even $40 is not that expencive for something you like and may have for 20 years and grow it to 20 inch from 1.5 inch thats a bargin in my eye
T1KARMANN;4256783; said:this is my point right hear
you have now been told $20 for 1.5 inch if you see a fish at 1.5 inch and the price is $21 will you not buy it because its not the price you have been told
at $20 the fish is not expencive now if you like that fish a lot even $40 is not that expencive for something you like and may have for 20 years and grow it to 20 inch from 1.5 inch thats a bargin in my eye
I was thinking just yesterday about how much I would really be willing to pay for a good pet, whether dog or fish. A long-lived pet becomes a kind of family member. My dog cost me about $300 when I got him, but i would pay many times that for the joy & companionship he has brought me & my fam. The same is pretty much true for fish also. No, they aren't cuddly, but I get to know their personalities and watch them grow. Plus, Iam a biologist of sorts by trade, so I enjoy the more scientific side of fish keeping. As for prices, I just want as many examples as I can get. I won't miss an opportunity to get a nice fish because of 30% difference in pric from what I was expecting. BUT, if I hear over and over again that 1.5" Dats should sell for $20-30 and my LFS tries to charge me $70 I will know to ask some questions regarding the deal. I love sharing info & stories with my fellow MFKers but I am not so easily influenced by them. Like I said, scientist by trade. I collect data; it's what I do.
Look for current dat pricing on the For Sale forum. You can see what they're selling for. If it sells quickly, it was either a good or great price. If it doesn't & has been reduced a couple of times, it was set too high originally.
well lets give you some idea what i would pay for the right tiger
when i 1st got my ST it was 2inch and i paid £24
i then sold it for £125 at about 12 inch
i then brought it back for £150
i then sold it again for £175
i regretted selling it every time thats why i wanted it back the last person i sold it to loved it as much as me and wouldn't let it go but i knew i had to get it back
my 1st offer was £200 he said NO not for sale
next offer £300 he said no not selling
next offer £500 he said no not selling
next offer £550 he yes
£600 was what i was willing to pay and i will never sell it again
if you are willing to pay $70 thats still not a high price it all depends on size stripes color body shape
its all about the overall look of the fish that counts
if the ST i paid £550 for look rubbish then i wouldn't have paid that kind of money just because it was a ST
when i 1st got my ST it was 2inch and i paid £24
i then sold it for £125 at about 12 inch
i then brought it back for £150
i then sold it again for £175
i regretted selling it every time thats why i wanted it back the last person i sold it to loved it as much as me and wouldn't let it go but i knew i had to get it back
my 1st offer was £200 he said NO not for sale
next offer £300 he said no not selling
next offer £500 he said no not selling
next offer £550 he yes
£600 was what i was willing to pay and i will never sell it again
if you are willing to pay $70 thats still not a high price it all depends on size stripes color body shape
its all about the overall look of the fish that counts
if the ST i paid £550 for look rubbish then i wouldn't have paid that kind of money just because it was a ST
T1KARMANN;4256047; said:the search section and tab is your Friend
LOTS of info if you just look
to many prices to list at different sizes
this thread will only get others saying thats expensive i can get them for xx amount or wow thats cheap can you ship some to me
if you like the fish and YOU think its a fair price buy the fish if not walk away
i know for a fact i wouldn't let a fish i want get away just because its $20 more than a guide price i got from MFK or any other forum
lets be fair you have been a member of the forum from 2007 you must know if someone is trying to rip you of or not
Wow. May i call you Richard?
I also haven't followed Dats closely and find varying prices all over my LFS so you've got a good question. Shame more people won't just tell you how much they paid for theirs and what size (maybe some pics too).