Ok... so Rainforest pets, my local herp shop, are closed till the 18th due to a family emergency. Not sure what it is, but I wish them the best and hope it's nothing to serious. We found this out when I went to got there yesterday to by a UTH for my new leo tank.... I did some quick figuring, number of meals between now and the 18th and number of crickets I would need based on what Jaxey usually eats and I figured I would need some more just to be safe. So Dee ( GF ) and I went to another local petshop to pick up a dozen or so... 30 friggin cents EACH!!!!!!!!! I darn near laughed in her face... I kinda looked at her when she said 30 cents and just stammered.. "e-e-each?" Ok... maybe I'm spoiled, Rainforest charges 10 cents a cricker, and often, if they are wee or sometimes just cause they are great folks out there, I get them for free... 30 cents... man.... I'd need to get a friggin mortgage!
My local shop also sells em @ 10c. or 12 for $1. I always ask for 3 dozen but when I get home and put them in their tank I can count 30 in one corner. I guess they dont care.... My cat reaps the rewards though. I feed him the ones that are too big for my Leo. 30 cents each!!! I cant believe it. Are they trying to kill you?
ooman i would go broke if that happened to me. the pet store i get my crickets at says 12 for 1$ but when i count i usually get more like 18-20 and i get my mealies at a different pet sotre for 50 for 1.50$
$0.10? e-e-each? I'm spoiled... I usually buy them 3-5,000 at a time for $12/thousand You did explain to them that you can buy crickets online as low as $0.012 each right? And that when a beardy's eating 50 crickets a day, they're losing more business than they're getting on crickets by charging ludicrous prices I just noticed you're in Canada... you might want to try Rob at www.CanadianFeeders.com He's much cheaper than $0.30 per cricket
Yeah... like I said though, normally its 10 cents, and even then I usually either get a dozen or more for free or the whole lot..lol... the guys there are great.... The bulk thing is something I may have to look at. I know the guys out at Rainforest will add to thier orders for SOME costumers so you saze the cost of shipping. Within the next month or so I am getting three leos and my cricket demand will vastly increase...lol... right now there's just the one AFT and a RES and the RES only gets the crickets that Jaxey won't eat!
Hey Oscar, I will sell you some for $0.25 each. No need to thank me, that is just how nice a guy I am....
You're not really saving the cost of shipping, because they'll add more than that price onto the cost of the crickets... If they're paying US$15 for a box of crickets, they'll probably sell them to you for around US$30-35. They've got to make their profit. They're a business and if they don't profit, it's not worth it to them. You can buy them online for like US$20 shipped.
I think somewhere along the line something got confused...lol.... Shrap, I don't pay 30, even 25 cents per cricket. I pay 10 cents a criket. Right now bulk crickets aren't that big a priority for me, I have, as I said, one AFT who is eating around 30 crickets a week, so, on average, its costing me around 3 bucks a week for crickers.... now, I'm a poor fella, but not THAT poor...lol... When I get my leos, then I may look at bulk crickets, but to be honest, even then I don't know if I will. They, as you know, are foul smelly creatures and I really don't have the room nor the environment to keep large numers of crickets, the 10 cents a cricket I usually pay is a small price for the lack of hassle.... Now, if I had a beardie, then it would be way more cost effective to keep them myself.... I was shocked at the 30 cent price tag per cricket at the pet store, but they aren't even a store who has thier own scalies, so I guess they don't order much in, thus no discounts. Keep in mind also that I AM in canada and there is a difference in the dollar, not as much as it used to be, but you are still looking at 20 cents dif on a dollar. Compound that with the fact that I live on an island, closer to england than I am than more than half of Canada, shipping is a factor here as well... But thanks for the input, I will look in canadian feeders when I have a larger crew to feed!
Oscar, Lol, I was just messing with you, bud.... but if you are willing to pay $0.25 a cricket, look no further because I have all you need. I will even throw in an extra cricket for every 10 you buy. See, I told you I was a nice guy.... There I go again.
Well it is January you know. St. Johns and Indy are both colder than a witches' ..... I say we meet at Axes house.
I FOUND SOMETHING PETSMART IS GOOD AT! Selling crickets. It's 8 cents per juvinile, 10 cents for an adult. I know that's not the best deal ever, but I only have my one leo who eats 12ish a night, 80ish a week. Less then 8 dollars a week for food isn't that bad, especially since it would be silly for me to bulk order 500 when they would just outgrow the size she can eat before I could feed them. Also, when I get 40 from the 'Smart, it usually is atleast 50. When I even went to get some tonight they were 'out' and the cricket bins were clean! It's a good thing hampster likes mealies... Now I just have to learn how to take care of them.
man the petsmart here sells em 7 cents for juvies and 9 cents for adults... canadian! lol and if u all wanna be really smart and not bulk oder millions fromt he states... ask the pet store where they get their crix from and just tell em u want to ask em some questions of their cricket ranch or whatever.... then cut a deal with the racher... cutting out the middle man will easily cut the price down 5 times from the stores price per crick and at the same time u can have a smub grin on ur face about stickin it to the man! lol
