Purposely Overstock to Sell . Right or Wrong

[ThaDude]

Marketing scheme.

(hypothetical numbers)

They buy 1000 fish at $0.50/fish.
They sell 50 at $1.00/fish. (double their money)
They sell 1 at 5.00/fish. (450% profit)

Take away cost of operation to find final profit.

The quicker the turnover, the less cost to operate.

Consider it like this:
The work and time and maintenance you spend to turn the fish over to other people is your reward for being and independent contracted seller for their company.
In return they receive business, space for more stock (thus more profit), and free promotion.

 

[pupumole]

Well for a hobbyist, we aren't really profiting, lol

agree, we arent when we are selling the fish that we have kept for a while. and by hobbyist i take it that you dont buy large amount of fish for selling. and when we sell , we are selling for the following reason:
1. fish outgrown
2. fish becomes incompatible with other tank mates
3. emergency ( financial , natural disaster etc)

another thing .. i looked at your past post ... $1400 for a pbass ... looks like someone is trying to pull a profit .. also you have had many many fish up for sale ... why is that?? maybe you have fish you dont want .. or cannot keep anymore .. or you just want to do something different ..

your ideas jump all over the place .. and seem to change each time your on the other side of the fence ..

umm.. i have that pbass for a while, and i've done everything responsible for it as a fish keeper. as for the price, i admit it was a lil high because i believe thats what it deserves to be worth, but i was also open to offers . i have yet to turn down a reasonable offer ... to this point, the pbass is still living with me happily. NOT intended to buy and sell for profit

and please explain when did i jump the fence on my idea... i stand firm that hobbyist shouldnt stock up and sell immediately

thats the nature of the fishtrade. the owner has to overstock to make a profit.they would go bust in a season if they stock their tanks with just 6 fishes in a 55g tank . . . running filters/heaters and feeding the stock isnt cheap.

thats for lfs and wholesaler and everything above, but not for consumer / hobbyist. dont u think ? we dont have a reason to overstock purposely when we are fish KEEPERS .

Hey where is this profit in buying a fish slightly cheaper then selling for slightly more.

I provide the house that the tank is located in - this means rent or a mortgage payment.

I pay for the water, electricity, food and time for these fish.

So I really dont see much profit in it - just trying to recoup my money and hand pick the keepers for myself.

my question was "immediately" as in all those are minimal . If you are talking about selling a month or more later, then i think it would be fine to get the money back ( which i agree, thats not profit)

if you are thinking that you got to buy all of them so you can hand pick them at your tank, why not just picked them when you were buying so you dont have to buy so many extra. its not like the fish will suddenly become different at ur tank . * its fine if you buy a bunch AND grow em out though

 

[pupumole]

should be another option on the poll
()wrong
()right
()who cares

if you dont care, why do you care that theres a "who cares" option for the who-cares-people. ^^:;

 

[pupumole]

Consider it like this:
The work and time and maintenance you spend to turn the fish over to other people is your reward for being and independent contracted seller for their company.
In return they receive business, space for more stock (thus more profit), and free promotion.

thats a good economical view...and i agree that might be beneficial to the vendors... but arent we just fish keepers? why are we doing business all of a sudden? isnt our intention just to KEEP fish that we love?

 

[Dragon Hunter]

thats a good economical view...and i agree that might be beneficial to the vendors... but arent we just fish keepers? why are we doing business all of a sudden? isnt our intention just to KEEP fish that we love?

dude just give up your cause. people can do what ever they want with their fish/money plain and simple.

 

[ThaDude]

To share rare species with other keepers?

 

[jcardona1]

thats a good economical view...and i agree that might be beneficial to the vendors... but arent we just fish keepers? why are we doing business all of a sudden? isnt our intention just to KEEP fish that we love?

the aquarium/fish hobby is lucrative. like they say, money makes the world go round!

 

[pupumole]

dude just give up your cause. people can do what ever they want with their fish/money plain and simple.

not saying they can or cannot .... i agree that they can.... but the question is , should they.

 

[jcardona1]

not saying they can or cannot .... i agree that they can.... but the question is , should they.

who are you, me, or anybody else to say that they should or shouldnt? this is a classic case of "mind your own damn business"

 

[ThaDude]

Is it wrong?

I've never purchased a fish that had a fine print sticker that read (not for resale)