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15-Mar-08, 03:38 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Mar-07 Location: Dandenongs, Vic Age/Gender: 28  | | | Interesting prices in petshops
Hi. Just wondering if people have seen interestingly priced snakes and reptiles in pet shops, or anywhere for that matter! Over priced or under priced.
I just seen an ad from a pet and aquarium store, MD python $695 each. I thought that was rather high....
I just found another ad for the same place, BHP yearling $1119.
Kim
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So Many animals, not enough house! 
MD Pythons - Monty, Irwin and Stevie.
Shinglebacks - Lloyd, Hedwig, Chinook, Pepper and Geela
Turtles, GTF tadpoles, dogs, guinea pigs........
Last edited by Kimbully; 15-Mar-08 at 03:41 PM.
Reason: found another one
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15-Mar-08, 03:47 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Jul-07 Location: victoria | | | | ive seen eastern blue tongues for $100 at a petshop. thats rather dear i think. but maybe we only think its dear coz we get to see alot of animals sold cheaper by private breeders? |
15-Mar-08, 03:53 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Jun-06 Age: 34 | | | Quote:
Originally Posted by carinacat  ive seen eastern blue tongues for $100 at a petshop. thats rather dear i think. but maybe we only think its dear coz we get to see alot of animals sold cheaper by private breeders? | That is very true. If you want to knock a pet store's prices then maybe you could sell your animals to them, accepting less than you think they are worth, so that pet stores can be competitive with their prices. Pet shops are in business to make money, and to cover overheads such as rent, power, buying and feeding animals all costs money that comes out before they see profit. Breeders don't have to extra overheads to worry about so can afford to sell them cheaper.
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15-Mar-08, 03:56 PM
| | Subscriber | Join Date: Mar-07 Location: Dandenongs, Vic Age/Gender: 28 | | | | Probably. I realise petshops are more expensive in general, but I would have thought $395 was high for MD's. $695 sounds over the top!
Kim
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So Many animals, not enough house!
MD Pythons - Monty, Irwin and Stevie.
Shinglebacks - Lloyd, Hedwig, Chinook, Pepper and Geela
Turtles, GTF tadpoles, dogs, guinea pigs........
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15-Mar-08, 03:58 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Apr-07 Location: Melbourne Gender:  | | | | yep petshop near me stupid prices
stimson was $500
and everything else was stupidly over priced to |
15-Mar-08, 04:01 PM
|  | Invert nut Subscriber | Join Date: Oct-05 Location: QLD Gender: | | | | my local pet store sells netted hatchies for $100 witch isnt too bad, beardie hatchies for about the same, murray river turts for $110 and i picked up and adult fem patternless pink tongue for $150 which was a very good price.
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15-Mar-08, 04:02 PM
| | Subscriber | Join Date: Mar-07 Location: Dandenongs, Vic Age/Gender: 28 | | | | Please note that i am not knocking pet shops, Just interested to see what other inflated prices people have seen.
Thanks
Kim
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So Many animals, not enough house!
MD Pythons - Monty, Irwin and Stevie.
Shinglebacks - Lloyd, Hedwig, Chinook, Pepper and Geela
Turtles, GTF tadpoles, dogs, guinea pigs........
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15-Mar-08, 05:35 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Jul-07 Location: typical melbourne Gender: | | | | so where are the pet shops as i have seen juvie diamonds for 695 |
15-Mar-08, 05:40 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Oct-05 Location: Queensland | | | Quote:
Originally Posted by hornet my local pet store sells netted hatchies for $100 witch isnt too bad. | Geez I"ve sold Netteds privately for more than that.... I'd jump at that price!!! |
15-Mar-08, 05:45 PM
| | Suspended | Join Date: Feb-08 Location: Whitsundays & Somewhere near Brisbane, Qld Age/Gender: 20 | | | Most of the petshops near me are ridiculous!!! Childrens in one were $380  and in the other were $420 ...and adult beardies were like $375-470 ...babies were at least $175 !!! Some golden retrievers were $800 WITHOUT papers ! And don't even get me started on their fish! I thought that the pricing was shocking for any animal!....But who knows...that maybe normal petshop prices....has anyone seen any of those animals for that price in petshops before???....is that normal or is it just the petshops where I am...???  |
15-Mar-08, 06:27 PM
| | Subscriber | Join Date: Jun-06 Age: 34 | | | | The thing is, to make a profit most retail shops work on achieving 100% mark up on items/animals they buy. So for them to have these high prices they are obviously buying their snakes at the same price breeders sell them for privately, and 100% mark up gives them price they have. So it would be normal for any petshop.
I paid $400 each for my stimsons from a private breeder so $500 isn't that much different but for a pet store to attempt to gain double mark up, I can't see how they manage to move them. They should be talking the sellers down in price to keep the prices balanced or not take them at all. Well, thats how I operate anyway. We can't have reptiles in NSW shops but the same rule applies with all our animals.
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15-Mar-08, 06:35 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Nov-07 Location: wollongong Gender: | | | | does anyone sell animals to petshops |
15-Mar-08, 06:41 PM
| | Subscriber | Join Date: Jun-06 Age: 34 | | | Quote:
Originally Posted by eden roscoe does anyone sell animals to petshops | If they didn't where would they get their animals from? I am sure most ppl in this business wouldn't be interested in breeding their own, but if they did they probably wouldn't need to put such high mark up on them.
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15-Mar-08, 06:52 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Jan-08 Location: Victoria Gender: | | | I would never buy from a petshop again.
Not sure if the reptiles are better off, but the dogs that are supplied to most petshops are from Puppy Farms, or Backyard Breeders & live in appalling conditions.
The staff at most pet shops have no idea on the proper care for the animals, they give out ithe wrong info on the animals (when I got a guinea pig years back they advised me to feed it oranges & carrots as the main diet ).
PP is the worst place, they should be closed down. 
I wont buy from any petstore that sells live animals (as pets).
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15-Mar-08, 07:05 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Jan-03 Location: NTH QLD | | | | I know where to get some very decent priced beautiful bredli if interested just pm me....cheers!
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