sharkbait9
Active Member
Originally Posted by Jaymz
http:///forum/post/2865446
Im not going to pay $1000 for any coral no matter what, even if money was no object. Im not going to give some idiot the satisfaction of that sale.
True. I buy frags for 30 bucks let it grow, I was successful. I did what I wanted to do, grow a coral out. That was my main objective, I‘ve achieved my goal. So now the coral grows out of the space I allotted. I can clip it and mount it and sell it for 10 bucks plus the cost of shipping. So if a dozen people have the same coral that some joker is trying to push for a G note turns around and sells frags for 40 bucks the hobbyist who really do this hobby helped flood the market. We do our part. I mean come on, be honest. you don’t want to throw a claw hammer into the persons face who takes a red and blue coral that was 15 bucks last week but now charges 100 because they named it superman or a green coral and called it the incredible hulk and charges 100 for a 15 dollar frag. That infuriates me to the point I want to bite their face.
Maybe It the fact that we as hobbyist fell victim to designer names. Incredible hulk, superman, sopranos, transformers, kings blood, aog, ppe and allow the continuation of being dumb and just agreeing to allow it to happen.
What am I the only person who vomits at the idea that reefing is become so main stream that we allow it to be victimized by greed people who just want money.
What happened to the real swap meets? Where you went to a persons house or a park or a lfs and traded or sold frags for ten bucks. Are those days gone? I can even see paying 20 bucks for a ticket to go meet at a hotel conference room and have a huge meet, those were the fun times of this hobby.
No, now its some high brow clown walking around captivating the attention of hobbyist like school girls with a crush. Spouting off about how he keeps his tanks and slaps his name on a coral that simply morphed in color and people run in droves to buy a frag of so in so’s LE coral. Yeah I was sucker and went to a certain persons web site and bid an a couple of PPE that could be traced back to another certain clown. That’s right I won’t even give the satisfaction of naming these two circus clowns. WOOPDI DOO you found some zoanthids and gave them a name good job, have a beer on me.
So in my head if I can take these PPE’s that we all drool over and push two or three out at 15-20 bucks maybe even 30 if you pester me and flood the market then good, I can rest knowing I’m doing my part from have some clown hawk his name like a ten dollar street walker.
Again this is me, just how I feel. People want to be taken advantage of or take advantage of other hobbyist, do it. I’m not the moral compass.
Just commenting on my observations of how this hobby has become so blood thirsty and greedy.
http:///forum/post/2865446
Im not going to pay $1000 for any coral no matter what, even if money was no object. Im not going to give some idiot the satisfaction of that sale.
True. I buy frags for 30 bucks let it grow, I was successful. I did what I wanted to do, grow a coral out. That was my main objective, I‘ve achieved my goal. So now the coral grows out of the space I allotted. I can clip it and mount it and sell it for 10 bucks plus the cost of shipping. So if a dozen people have the same coral that some joker is trying to push for a G note turns around and sells frags for 40 bucks the hobbyist who really do this hobby helped flood the market. We do our part. I mean come on, be honest. you don’t want to throw a claw hammer into the persons face who takes a red and blue coral that was 15 bucks last week but now charges 100 because they named it superman or a green coral and called it the incredible hulk and charges 100 for a 15 dollar frag. That infuriates me to the point I want to bite their face.
Maybe It the fact that we as hobbyist fell victim to designer names. Incredible hulk, superman, sopranos, transformers, kings blood, aog, ppe and allow the continuation of being dumb and just agreeing to allow it to happen.
What am I the only person who vomits at the idea that reefing is become so main stream that we allow it to be victimized by greed people who just want money.
What happened to the real swap meets? Where you went to a persons house or a park or a lfs and traded or sold frags for ten bucks. Are those days gone? I can even see paying 20 bucks for a ticket to go meet at a hotel conference room and have a huge meet, those were the fun times of this hobby.
No, now its some high brow clown walking around captivating the attention of hobbyist like school girls with a crush. Spouting off about how he keeps his tanks and slaps his name on a coral that simply morphed in color and people run in droves to buy a frag of so in so’s LE coral. Yeah I was sucker and went to a certain persons web site and bid an a couple of PPE that could be traced back to another certain clown. That’s right I won’t even give the satisfaction of naming these two circus clowns. WOOPDI DOO you found some zoanthids and gave them a name good job, have a beer on me.
So in my head if I can take these PPE’s that we all drool over and push two or three out at 15-20 bucks maybe even 30 if you pester me and flood the market then good, I can rest knowing I’m doing my part from have some clown hawk his name like a ten dollar street walker.
Again this is me, just how I feel. People want to be taken advantage of or take advantage of other hobbyist, do it. I’m not the moral compass.
Just commenting on my observations of how this hobby has become so blood thirsty and greedy.
