has anyone ever sold their reptile pets to their local pet stores?
has anyone ever sold their reptile pets to their local pet stores? If so, what store? How much and what? Do you think my reptile store will buy it from me if i sell my leopard geckos at a good price, like 2 baby leopard geckos for 30 dollars? When they are worth like 30 bucks each! Do you think they will accept it? How much do the stores usually get for their reptiles?
30 dollars no way. Often, they'd just refuse you.
If you establish yourself with them as a breeder, they might give you store credit. But $30 is hoping for the sky. You need to think: $8 to $1 and not $30.
Your pet store has reliable shipments from places with established warranties. (at WELL below $30, for standard leopard gecko morph) And, they know if keels over, within a certain time, they can get money. (And that source has no problem with an occasional death, since they've shipped many)
If a big box pet store, they will refuse even accepting it.
If a "mom and pop" store, they might accept it for free. If you continue to supply them, they might go to store credit. But they won't buy your animals. They sell those animals. That's why they are there, to sell to people in their area. Keep that in your head and understand that. A enormous part of a store is "advertising". Gotta understand that fact.
A pet store can sell a (standard morph baby) leopard gecko for $75. Someone who walks into that store and makes a purchase isn't willing to go on craigslist, or classifieds, or worry about shipment, or read newspaper, etc..... And they know if they have probs, well, there's a STORE right there. Not someone to dodge calls.
Now, if you can reliably deliver babies all the time, they might go to credit, or cash, again cheap cheap. *vastly less* than cost they are selling it for. They got rent, employees, electric bills, feeding costs, etc. Why bother dealing with someone bringing in maybe rejects, with no warrenty, when they can deal with their supplier, that also supplies a bunch more animals along with that.
Better bets are classifieds, kingsnake.com, craiglist, and the such. Where you can connect with other individuals.
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