More pet store awesomeness

Charis · 11-12-13, 03:01 PM

Several months ago, I was trying to figure out how much of what to order, because I wasn't sure exactly how many mouths we were going to have to feed. Started running out of pinks about two weeks before I was going to know how many little snakes we were going to end up with, so I get the bright idea to buy some at the pet store to hold us by until I knew and could make up an order for Rodent Pro. I'd asked at the mom n pop store how much their f/t mice were and can swear I was told that they were 10 pinks for around $10, still a bit steep but beats Petco prices all to heck. But I go to buy them a few days later and come to find out, they were only six in a pack for that price! Was too late to put in an order online without making all the snakes skip one meal and some of them two, by that point, so I paid the $21 something for my 12 pinks and vowed never again! Sad thing is they were still cheaper than Petco.
Went home and ordered 500 various sized but mostly small mice from RP for $133 and some change. They were having a sale, but still, that shows you how much someone is gouging! Might not even be the pet stores, could be their suppliers that are raking in the money.
If we had more freezer space and a bit of start up capitol, I'd be very tempted to start selling my own, wouldn't even need to breed them, just buy in bulk and resell them. Could make a decent profit and still majorly undercut the pet stores and help out the people with too few snakes to make the shipping worthwhile.

KORBIN5895 · 11-24-13, 12:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Charis

Several months ago, I was trying to figure out how much of what to order, because I wasn't sure exactly how many mouths we were going to have to feed. Started running out of pinks about two weeks before I was going to know how many little snakes we were going to end up with, so I get the bright idea to buy some at the pet store to hold us by until I knew and could make up an order for Rodent Pro. I'd asked at the mom n pop store how much their f/t mice were and can swear I was told that they were 10 pinks for around $10, still a bit steep but beats Petco prices all to heck. But I go to buy them a few days later and come to find out, they were only six in a pack for that price! Was too late to put in an order online without making all the snakes skip one meal and some of them two, by that point, so I paid the $21 something for my 12 pinks and vowed never again! Sad thing is they were still cheaper than Petco.
Went home and ordered 500 various sized but mostly small mice from RP for $133 and some change. They were having a sale, but still, that shows you how much someone is gouging! Might not even be the pet stores, could be their suppliers that are raking in the money.
If we had more freezer space and a bit of start up capitol, I'd be very tempted to start selling my own, wouldn't even need to breed them, just buy in bulk and resell them. Could make a decent profit and still majorly undercut the pet stores and help out the people with too few snakes to make the shipping worthwhile.

Stop stealing my ideas...

plutos_kiss · 11-24-13, 12:35 AM

I work at one of the two big chain pet stores, and we are the one who will still sell feeders. But the company prices them ridiculously high (3.99 for a mouse, 5.49 for a small rat, 7.49 for a medium) because they want to 'discourage live feeding'. As much as I do not like live feeding myself, I wish the company would realize and be supportive of the fact that some animals do not take to frozen feeding. That's their reasoning. But even our F/T are crazy expensive, not to mention they smell absolutely awful.