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XBOX SOLD*

GoPro still available and I lowered the price. Will sell for $400 with all the accessories or possible trade for stuff to get me started here of course. I decided on the tank that I want - Marineland 30 x 30 x 24 cube and stand. Let me know if you have questions and/or what you have to trade.

Here is description from my CL post:

UPDATE**I have had some flakes...please be serious if you intend to buy this** I have a GoPro Hero 3 Black edition that is in fantastic condition and was hardly used at all (hence I am selling it). If you have any questions, please email or txt me (click the CONTACT button in upper left of posting for phone number) and my name is Ryan. This is from a smoke free/pet free home and has been very well taken care of by a responsible adult. I am willing to trade/partial trade for a saltwater aquarium or of course CASH. Here is what is included:

- GoPro Hero 3 Black edition camera

- Warranty through Best Buy until 12/2015 (I will include the receipt)

- Waterproof clear plastic housing

- BacPac battery back

- BacPac LCD screen

- Wireless remote control (forgot it was in side pocket and thus is not in pics)

- 32GB Sandisk Ultra class 10 mirco SDHC memory card

- 64GB Sandisk Ultra class 10 micro SDXC memory card

- 2x USB charging cables

- Gorilla tripod (blue and black stripes)

- Chesty chest mount harness

- Head mount harness

- Pole mount (great for bikes or ski pole for on the mountain)

- Kitchen timer mount (great for doing time lapses)

- Suction Cup mount

- The Frame mounts (2...one for camera by itself, one for when a BacPac is on)

- And many extra little mounts and transition mount pieces

- Lowepro case that is perfect for packing all this stuff around with

- Some of the original packaging I found in my closet

Glad to see u getting back in the hobby if u need help jlmk

Thanks Jose I will let you now

GoPro PENDING

Sweet. Let me know what happens and maybe we can work something out

Hey guys and gals. It has been a few years since I have been in the hobby. In a new house now and have a great place for a tank and I have some stuff for trade to help get me started (obviously I will be dropping some $$ in addition to get all the gear I need). I have both my XBOX 360 320GB Gears of War edition w/67 games and GoPro Hero 3 Black edition with lots of extras listed on CL and you can view all of the details and pictures.

GoPro

http://portland.craigslist.org/clk/pho/4662524039.html

XBOX

http://portland.craigslist.org/clk/vgm/4661783398.html

WHAT I AM WANTING FOR MY TANK:

I am thinking that a 3' L x 3' W x 2' H would be a good size for me and I calculated that to be about 135gal. I haven't really seen this size in classifieds or CL or on the couple aquarium sites I looked at...perhaps I need to have somebody custom build this tank and stand size? I want to run a good size sump in the stand that has a spot for a refugium, skimmer, and return pump of course. I have not used a calcium reactor before or CO2, but I think those are probably a good idea to add for maximum coral growth right? Not sure what I want for lighting, but I do not want to hang anything from the ceiling. I plan to have a variety of corals SPS, LPS, and who knows what else. So obviously I do not have specific equipment requirements at this time, but I am open to suggestions and ideas and I will be researching about equipment too. I want to take my time to make sure I set this up good right from the beginning. Oh and I think I will be using dry rock and curing it with a couple starter pieces of live rock so as to minimize the aptasia and worms.

I also only have 1 polyp still, so oh well. Good luck to the rest of you.

Some good points here.

 

All I can say is when you are dealing with a very limited supply of (like TECO has) high end corals that take several months to grow out, volume makes absolutely no sense. Not to mention we are talking about a semi-luxury item here, and not food necessary for survival.

 

I have done this business both ways, and only one way works. Hint: it's not volume...

So are you saying that LFS cannot just order a crapload of corals from the wholesalers to be able to sell at a higher volume? For some of the more rare corals/fish obviously you are correct that volume doesn't make sense because you couldn't get that much even if you wanted to, but for corals/fish in general, can't the stores just order however much they are willing to pay for and have space in their store for?

Oh, in regards to the Steve Jobs comment, the 51% profit is not how much Apple makes per iPod or iPhone etc., it is how much their profits are as a company (or in this case a division of the company). I would bet that the majority of these profits come from accessory sales for the mobile devices (electronics accessories have AT LEAST 50% margins, but most of the time its more like 70-80%). A good example would be USB cables. You may pay $30 for one at the store, but if you were to ask the store cost, its about $3. I think its probably the same with saltwater stuff that is necessary for us to have...the things we need all the time like salt and glue and frag plugs and test kits probably have huge margins.

Using your numbers in your example of # of stores and revenue, if you divide 1500 by 70 (to figure how many times more stores Safeway has than WinCo...it's 21) and then multiply the revenue out by that number (21 x $3 billion = $63 billion) to make the comparison even based on # of stores (1500 each), WinCo would out-produce Safeway by $22 billion. You mention that price is only one factor in a customer choosing where they shop, which I agree with, but when the two shops sell the same exact item and one is half the cost, I will always shop at the cheaper store. Your point about stores being closer to home is a valid one, but wouldn't it be worth it to spend the $4 in fuel if you are saving $20+ vs the expensive stores(usually way more than that if you are shopping for 1-2 weeks worth of groceries) on your grocery shopping trip? Relating this to our hobby, if one of us is going to spend $$ on corals and you could get them for $100 at one store and the same corals at another store would be $150, wouldn't you want to go to the cheaper store? I am not trying to argue with you, I am just pointing out some logic that I personally use and I know other consumers use as well. My family also has a relatively tight budget that we try to stick to as well, so this logic may differ in families that have excess money to waste.

Based on my experience as a territory sales manager for Kraft foods (I know grocery is different than a hobby, but I think there may be a similar outcome here), I noticed that the store that had the lowest prices, in my case it was Winco Foods, also had the most sales. WinCo sells a TON of groceries because they are the lowest price ANYWHERE in town and they are ALWAYS busy and they may not have as high of profit margins as some other stores such as Safeway or Albertsons (which their SALE prices are not even as low as WinCo's normal prices), but since they have so much more volume, they are making a TON of money. My Albertson's stores were the worst sales for me because they were the highest priced and Safeway was right behind them and both stores had only a fraction of the business as WinCo. Those stores are in a way like convenience stores IMO, people go there when they need something RIGHT NOW or they just buy the sale items. Yeah those stores will make a higher profit per item, but if they are not selling very many of the items, they are not making any money at all. I guess my take on this idea is that if you have lower prices but do more volume, then you will come out WAY ahead. Having 20 customers buy an item at 50% margin is not nearly as profitable as 100 customers buying your item at 30% margin (ex. an item is $50 at cost, 50% margin makes it $100 so your 20 customers give you $2000 in sales and $1000 in profit. The same item at 30% margin is $65 but 100 people buy (since you are the lowest price you will have lots more customers) it which makes your sales $6500 for a $1500 profit.)

Thread closed - made a fresh one with more stuff added

i like the $3 superman..coming to portland anytime soon?

sent you a PM

New EVEN LOWER prices!!

Bump. List is current with what is still available. Sold items have been removed to reduce clutter

Ok Chuck they are yours! Let me know when you are coming up this way.

I'd like the frog spawn if u still have it' date=' also would like some of those 3$ unknown zoa's if you have any left. meeting up is the only thing[/quote']

 

They are yours! I will PM you about meeting up

Added more zoanthids to sale!!

PM sent on Purple acan colony and ricordias

I had 4 polyps blow away last week and I was down to 1, but then I managed to find 2 of the floaters and re-glue them. Well just today I noticed that 1 of those now blew off so I now have 2 left on the plug. One of my floaters I found in a corner but it is wedged between a rock and the glass and I am unable to get to it. Oh well. I just hope I can finish with at least one left!

Sorry for the crappy pic...I didn't feel like reaching in the tank to move the frag

2 Polyps left

Very nice' date=' if I had to choose, I would keep rics over zoas.[/quote']

 

Hmmmm....that's not a bad idea. I could get rid of all my zoas and go ricordia crazy! I'm going to have to think about that for a little bit.

I FINALLY got my first ricordia courtesy of OIAB! I think I may have found a new coral addiction...these things are the $***! Once I rescape my tank, I am going to make a section just for ricordias.

Bump for SUPER CLEARANCE price drop on monti's and zoos!! Lets get these sold!

PM sent on favia

Thank you for the kind words Eric and Tony!