sillynecco
Member
I think its a catch 22, Im a business major and a SWF hobbyist and from my educational perspective, i would say the fish store's primary goal is to make money. If they give you a refund, even though you probably did get the short end of the stick, then they would have to give joe schmo a refund to because he just took his fish and threw him in there when he got home.
Its a shame that you are left high and dry on a $63 fish, but aggregately you should have most of your fish survive from a fish store, sometimes you will see fatalities, but like stated above, its an expensive hobby.
As for the *****, its sad but they probably would rather see you go than keep you as a customer. It sounds harsh but in thier eyes as a business, they are better off selling fish to uninformed people who will probably kill thier fish and come back and get more, just because the people that work there say "its a really complicated science" and attribute the fatalities on the difficulty of the hobby.
And i dont know if im alone here on this one, but this hobby isnt like splitting the atom. To get into this hobby i bought two books, read them twice, talked to people and set up my tank. I have had 10-15 fish since starting, and i had 2 fatalites that were due disease/ poor acclimation and a few others that didnt make it since they were a combonation of slower than the eel and smaller than the size of his mouth.
Seriously, if you can dedicate 10hrs to read a book, you can pretty much learn the fundamentals to get going. Asking questions and having an open mind will take you the rest of the way.
I just found a LFS here in Michigan that i am really happy with. I have a good relationship and when i come there with a question, the owner dosent try to sell me stuff. In fact a few days ago i wanted to buy a fish that was $100 and he refused to sell it to me. He told me with such an expensive purchase, think about it overnight and come back if you are still serious about it. Plus if you generate a repoire with you LFS, they will know that your not an idiot and that if something does die its not because you dont know WTF you are doing. Then maybe they could work with you with store credit or something
Thats how it should be....
Its a shame that you are left high and dry on a $63 fish, but aggregately you should have most of your fish survive from a fish store, sometimes you will see fatalities, but like stated above, its an expensive hobby.
As for the *****, its sad but they probably would rather see you go than keep you as a customer. It sounds harsh but in thier eyes as a business, they are better off selling fish to uninformed people who will probably kill thier fish and come back and get more, just because the people that work there say "its a really complicated science" and attribute the fatalities on the difficulty of the hobby.
And i dont know if im alone here on this one, but this hobby isnt like splitting the atom. To get into this hobby i bought two books, read them twice, talked to people and set up my tank. I have had 10-15 fish since starting, and i had 2 fatalites that were due disease/ poor acclimation and a few others that didnt make it since they were a combonation of slower than the eel and smaller than the size of his mouth.
Seriously, if you can dedicate 10hrs to read a book, you can pretty much learn the fundamentals to get going. Asking questions and having an open mind will take you the rest of the way.
I just found a LFS here in Michigan that i am really happy with. I have a good relationship and when i come there with a question, the owner dosent try to sell me stuff. In fact a few days ago i wanted to buy a fish that was $100 and he refused to sell it to me. He told me with such an expensive purchase, think about it overnight and come back if you are still serious about it. Plus if you generate a repoire with you LFS, they will know that your not an idiot and that if something does die its not because you dont know WTF you are doing. Then maybe they could work with you with store credit or something
Thats how it should be....
