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Nope, but some others do make a killing from his name sake.
Another attack on Tyree!
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Actually most of the sites that sell LE,rare,exoctic type corals do not make a living of it. Most of them have so called "real jobs" And most people that grow out LE frags and sell them either charge less then they paid or the same. No body is getting rich unless you are Walt Smith or somebody that is HUGE like Walt. The little Retailers put in countless hours into there business just to make a living not get rich!
By the way I have never purchased a Coral from Steve so I have no vested interest in what he does!
And remember it all starts at the wholesaler. Most of them are watching these boards now and pricing there corals accordingly even though they still pay very little from the collectors. In the end it's the hard working village collectors who lose out in my eyes! They are making pennies on something the wholesaler is making dollars on!
And remember it all starts at the wholesaler. Most of them are watching these boards now and pricing there corals accordingly even though they still pay very little from the collectors. In the end it's the hard working village collectors who lose out in my eyes! They are making pennies on something the wholesaler is making dollars on!
jusreefin":1bw5y3ip said:
Yah, sure, blame it on the wholesalers :lol:
Truth be told, it starts not stateside, but island side. Many exporters have caught on to the "fad" corals, and priced accordingly (in most cases). Some wholesalers own their own station, or have a vested interst in them. In those cases, typically the money is made stateside.
Now I do know a few wholesalers that mark stuff up quite high, and it all sells. If people didn't pay, he wouldn't charge so much
Supply and demand is a, well, the B word GreshamH":1aj4bsys said:jusreefin":1aj4bsys said:
Yah, sure, blame it on the wholesalers :lol:
Truth be told, it starts not stateside, but island side. Many exporters have caught on to the "fad" corals, and priced accordingly (in most cases). Some wholesalers own their own station, or have a vested interst in them. In those cases, typically the money is made stateside.
Now I do know a few wholesalers that mark stuff up quite high, and it all sells. If people didn't pay, he wouldn't charge so much
Good point Gresh!
naesco":3hemm2e6 said:
Who ever said Steve doesn't get, and hasn't gotten stuff from the wild? Learn your history Wayne, Steve was a wholesaler of wild, and still gets stuff rom the wild. Steve does really push fragging, but he's never said wild collections are bad and he doesn't suppor them. There's nothing wrong or unsustainable about wild collections if done right
i don't really think tyree has anythign to do with the huge jump in the overall price of every coral that has come to market in the past 5 or so years. What did? the acan craze, and GAS PRICES of course. As soon as the war started, prices on liverock and corals jumped a good 30% from what i saw and that's only natural, the cost of bringing them here went up, a lot. Once people became obsessed with acanthastrea ( i think the main reason being it was *OH MY GOD* something they couldn't have) all of a sudden every brain, blasto, favia, scoly, - basically anything that could have been passed off as an acanthastrea, instantly became taxonomically reclassified at a charge of an extra 50% above normal retail value, and afterwards, they cleverly didn't drop them very much. I think it's easy to forget that before the acan craze you could buy a blasto for 50 dollars, a red scolymia for 70, a favites for 39.99. This was far different than what tyree and those like him do, tyree did not intentionally try to trick his customers to make a quick buck. He might use 20k and a reaaaallllly good camera, but at least he gets the species right
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