How many Ts would sell?

[skippy]

Yeah I know it's Berkeley, but I try to generalize sometimes so people outside California may get a better understand as Oakland is close and with a major airport, etc... Back in the good old days it use to be down by the Cypress structure that collapsed in the Earthquake and the lovely Richmond/SR bridge I have to cross.

i hear ya but most people are vaguely familiar with ucb i remember having to find it again after the quake but i was pretty young so the memories are kinda fuzzy.

 

[gumby]

I travel a lot so im familiar with the Bay area too. Lots of great dancing and I was impressed with the public trans. system too. One of the reasons I was thinking of moving there is that I wouldnt need a car. One plus of living in a big city. There are also so many people that Im sure several pet stores could thrive in the area.

 

[xhexdx]

If you come to Portland you have a partner.

That, quite honestly, is reason alone to make it in Portland.

 

[gambite]

I know its already been said like five times already, but feeders and supplies are the largest sellers in a pet store. Think about how many times you have been to one yourself. On all of those trips to the store, did you buy new, expensive, exotic (or not) animals? No, you probably bought feeders and supplies more often than not. But I think a store also needs something amazing to draw its customers back, something like a giant T blondi/L para, brilliant ornamental T's, giant snakes, exotic lizards, colorful birds, etc. You could probably break even easily just by supplying the food and tanks and water dishes and substrates, but if you have something spectacular then not only will you attract the regulars, but you will have people that dont even own animals coming back again and again to see the amazing animals that you have that you just cannot find at the mall-pet stores.

Of course, I have never worked in a pet store (yet), so this is only what I think would do the best.

 

[gumby]

One of the things that kind of has me worried is how much people will want to handle the animals and how do you have a good balence of letting people feel like you trust them but not stressing the animals out. I know some peole might be turned off if you refused to let them handle. and others would understand. :?

 

[skippy]

if i owned and operated a pet store i wouldn't let anyone handle any Ts unless i knew them. with reptiles i would be a little more lenient but you can't take any chances when it comes to liability for an injury(or percieved injury) especially with the history of frivolous lawsuits in this country...

 

[Warren Bautista]

How many Ts would sell?

A helluva lot.

 

[gumby]

if i owned and operated a pet store i wouldn't let anyone handle any Ts unless i knew them. with reptiles i would be a little more lenient but you can't take any chances when it comes to liability for an injury(or percieved injury) especially with the history of frivolous lawsuits in this country...

I can see that. I wonder if it would be good to have a padded section of floor as a hold area so that if there were drops the animal would be less likly to be hurt. something you could drop an egg on and it wouldnt split.

 

[skippy]

wouldn't matter. the common clay of america do not impress me with their invert handling abilities(literal and figurative)

imagine some poor slob freaking out after a T moves suddenly and flinging it against a wall or any other inumerable scenes of horror for the shop owner

 

[xhexdx]

So what you do is YOU handle them in front of the people, go over proper 'techniques', etc. Maybe let them pet them (this applies more so to snakes and reptiles, not really spiders, although you could maybe let them touch a leg or the abdomen or something).

 

[skippy]

yeah, that would work for the most part. i think i'd still hold of on any contact with Ts except for regulars

 

[gambite]

From what I have seen of other pet stores, tarantulas do not sell very well. Too many people are afraid of them. It is usually the same small group of people that purchase all the T's in a store.

 

[gumby]

From what I have seen of other pet stores, tarantulas do not sell very well. Too many people are afraid of them. It is usually the same small group of people that purchase all the T's in a store.

I agree I spend some time in pet stores just watching the people who come in and most stop at the turtles and iguanas. Very few Ts move but the prices they put on them are horrible Ive tried to tell the pet store I go to most often that there is no way Id buy an unsexed cobalt blue for $40 but he wont listen to me I keep telling him I can buy them for $20 on the boards here.