What products are we missing?

[marie]

Originally Posted by Whatigot

Hey, I shop at JL almost daily, somtimes twice daily and in addition to that, I managed retail clothing stores for YEARS and let me tell you, you don't just walk into a store and say "hey, so and so has this item for 2 bucks cheaper so please give it to me for that price".

If the price is advertised or you can get an employee to call the other store and confirm, sure, but otherwise it's just a gimmick.

What about the local LFS who will wheel and deal for cash?
I can't go to JL and say that and expect to get a price match can I?

Come on people, some of you are coming off like you have more $$ than sense and I would LOVE to add you to my book of retail investors as I love a lazy spender...

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So lets see if I have this right, you drive around to all the stores to find the cheapest price so you can save a couple of bucks

[trilinearmipmap]

1. Euro-reef nano-skimmer

2. Plumbing supplies: John guest fittings, also some of the harder to find pvc plumbing parts, whatever the pieces are you would need to hook up a calcium reactor to a return pump output, the parts for making a durso, parts for gate modding a skimmer, ball valves, unions etc. I have spent hours looking at home depot and plumbing stores for various parts, if you had a big bin of the commonly needed plumbing parts that would bring people into your store and they would buy something else while they were there.

3. Plug-in GFI's

[Canadian]

This is just my position on an LFS selling plumbing supplies:

I would NEVER pay LFS prices for plumbing fittings and supplies. Home Depot's prices are already ridiculous compared to wholesale prices from a plumbing wholesaler so I don't see it being worth while for an LFS (plus HD has a pathetic selection - don't shop there for fittings either). For example, last week I made a rack in my tank to support my SPS frags while I cooked my LR. I grabbed 10' of sch40 1/2" PVC, 8 x 1/2" sch40 PVC 90's, 8 x 1/2" sch40 PVC T's, and a 1-1/4" sch80 PVC 90 (for the output of my MCE600 so it would be gray in color) and it cost me all of $7. No LFS can afford to purchase wholesale plumbing supplies, display them and sell them at anywhere near those prices at a mark-up that justified the space they'd take up in the store in a bunch of bins sorted by size. That shopping list would have cost me around $30 or more at a LFS. If I walked into an LFS and saw them selling those fittings at that price I'd be a bit angry - not intentionally but just miffed that anyone would try to sell me something at 500% more than I should be paying for it.

Maybe some people can appreciate the convenience of getting those things at an LFS at a premium mark-up but I compare it to going to Safeway and buying a blender - they're not an appliance store and they should stick to what they do best.

An LFS is a great place to buy specialty plumbing supplies like Locline fittings but not your basic PVC fittings.

Originally Posted by trilinearmipmap

1. Euro-reef nano-skimmer

2. Plumbing supplies: John guest fittings, also some of the harder to find pvc plumbing parts, whatever the pieces are you would need to hook up a calcium reactor to a return pump output, the parts for making a durso, parts for gate modding a skimmer, ball valves, unions etc. I have spent hours looking at home depot and plumbing stores for various parts, if you had a big bin of the commonly needed plumbing parts that would bring people into your store and they would buy something else while they were there.

3. Plug-in GFI's

[trilinearmipmap]

Originally Posted by Canadian

This is just my position on an LFS selling plumbing supplies:

I would NEVER pay LFS prices for plumbing fittings and supplies.

Agreed if you are buying lots of plumbing ie. the initial plumbing set-up for a whole tank.

However typically I am looking for just one piece. The same piece that 200 other guys probably want for their reef tank, and that the hardware store has never heard of.

I have wasted enough gas and hours driving around trying to find parts.

As an example I found a John Guest fitting I wanted at OA. They aren't going to make any profit selling me one John Guest fitting, but by having a few containers full of these fittings they are doing their customers a huge service and thereby earning lots of goodwill.

[Whatigot]

Originally Posted by marie

So lets see if I have this right, you drive around to all the stores to find the cheapest price so you can save a couple of bucks

I really don't see where I said anything like that....

[Canadian]

Alrighty, so I forgot about this thread but the new post and email notification have prompted me to ask: I've just filled up my 2 containers for my 2-part dosing and now I'm all out of C-Balance. Given that a few of us have requested some ESV B-Ionic, have you guys had a chance to look into getting a supplier? I need to order a few other things and if you guys can get some B-Ionic in the next week or so I'd like to place an order ASAP.

[jlaquatics]

Our purchaser is looking for a supplier on the ESV (among other things posted earlier in this thread).

I can't promise any time of arrival quite yet though

Sorry for any inconvenience.

Jeff
J&L Aquatics Ltd.

[Canuckgod420]

Coral magazine would be nice.

[blennie]

profilux stuff.

[jlaquatics]

Again, thank you all for the contributions! I find this thread very interesting to review

For those of you not already familiar, the place to look for additions of any new products is located here:

http://www.jlaquatics.com/phpstore/s...ewproducts.php

Also, there is a link button on the front page of our website (hard to miss).

Cheers!

Jeff
J&L Aquatics