anyone with knowledge of the coral market, or has sold frags please help me..!!!

i need help pricing these frags to sell localy about to make an add up cause i got to get them out they are taking up so much room...!!!please help if you can give me a price of what is reasonable to ask for these frags/colonys i dont wanna rip anyone off..!!


so first is the candy corals ive got a colony of about 4 heads of the green and a colony of about 15-20 heads of the pink. so how much would be a reasonable price for these.? i cant find the color pink anywere so they seem more rare than the green.?




i also have about 15 frags of Turbinaria reniformis ranging in size from a nickle to bigger 3" pieces.
whats a good price for these?




i also have 3 2" birdsnest frags(seriatopora hystrix)red with blue polyps taken from the underside of my colony,
how much for these.???




please help me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

on billion dollars mwahahahha

seriously i don't know i would price them at like 10-15 dollars a frag and i would accept swaps. thats just me though you could probably get more but ehh think of it as your advancing the hobby

 

Look on coral sites and see what they are asking.

 

Do you have a local club? Look to them for local going-rates if you do. Just like any other product, availability is the biggest factor in pricing.

Also, you should consider the hobby... I mostly give away frags to people who are just starting because I think it is the right thing to do. If someone is interested who has been in the hobby for awhile, I try to make a trade instead of taking money to increase my collection.

 

Well lets see, I just bought a green trumpet frag from a lfs for $20 and it only had two polyps. Given it was a lfs, I would guesstimate for four heads, maybe $25. If you sell an entire colony of 15-20 heads, I would ask for about $50-60. For the birdsnest frags, I would say after looking at some websites, about $40 each. Finally, for the Turbinaria reniformis, I would start say $30-40 for the bigger frags, and less for the small ones. These are all just guesses, one thing you can do is ask yourself what you would pay for a frag. Also remember it is not how much they are worth, but what you can sell them for. Good luck

 

yeah im not trying to make a killing , and i am def accepting trades only of sps thou.

im thinking like the small small truban frags free, and the larger ones like 5$

birdsnest im gonna say 10$ for the nicely colored one, 5$- free for the other 3

and the pink candy colony i gotta get something for that so im thinking 30$(for 15-20 heads) thats like 2 dollars a head.(i can bet this one will go fast) i would sell for more but i still got 20+ heads of pink and 8 heads of the green.

and i also have like 5 individual colonies of red sea zenia like 5$ a colony.



i think this still allows me the good karma of selling cheaply while still in the end having enough $ for a new sps colony of my own....

also if someone buys more than one thing ill proly just give them the green candys.
does this sound like a deal if you were to buy them???

i hate selling stuff i never want to rip anyone off. like a few months ago i sold a complete 44 gal corner tank and stand 4 months old. paid 350 new,
i sold it to a kid i thought was getting into the hobby for 100$ to help him out, he sold it the following week for 250$ that mutherf$#@er

 

Sounds like a good deal to me. With a price like that, anyone can afford it, and you get to recoup what it costs to get fragging equipment/materials.

 

wish i lived anywhere near ya matey, i would break ya hand of at that price, in england it would be over 4x that
nice frags by the way

 

AWWWW Thats just messed up! That kid is a ****.
I am one for helping people start off too.
I gave away 2 acrylics to friends to help them have one like mine.
One friend decided to clean it with sand paper.. lol.
I had a huge Orange monti that shattered and I gave the majority of it to the other "friend". That a$$h0!3 fragged it and sold it to a Tampa fish store. That was my PRIZE center piece till I shattered it moving it from the 150 to the 55.

Those prices you gave are awesome! I wish my LFS had prices like that!
You should get plenty of action with those prices. Kudos my boy.. lol