e-mail from Ken at foreshores.net:



Let me know if you guys want to set something up. Someone in OR would have to pick it up and do the shipping, though. More than half off is a friggin sweet deal though.

to quote daniel















YES, interested!!

Oooh, I might be interested. Hopefully I can have the tank set up in time.

Same here. Now we just need someone in OR who can pick everything up and ship it all out...

I am very interested in a group buy. So count me in.

:cough cough: ... what?

I *might* be able to not sure though. reasons:

a. I'm leaving for college in a year, and I've sort of been not buying things because I'm just going to have to get rid of them.
b. No room in my tank anyway.
c. I'd actually be happy to drive to Eugene for you guys, even if I didn't end up getting any livestock out of it. My parents, however, would likely not want me driving two hours each way, and definitely would not take me, so idk, it would take some convincing.

so count me in as a maybe...

I would set an aquarium up, for these prices.

But how long do I have?

I don't have a cold water tank(or any tank at the moment) but I am down to help. If you need help with transportation let me know. I have gained alot from this sight and am always down to return the favor. Plus it can't hurt when I set up my next tank to have a few people owe me one!

i live in Or and might set up a coldwater if i can convince my parents....

So if local pickup doesn't work out, what kinda offer can he make with shipping to one person? The $250 minimum will be surpassed easily, and $500 minimum with that discount is likely not an issue.

Shipping was factored in before, so it might be now too... not sure. It's definitely ok if he ships to me, and Portland doesn't cost much, so I guess we'll see. I'll ask my parents tonight if they'd mind me taking a trip down to Eugene. I only have three more weeks of school, so after that I'll be free to pick up if I can, and repackage and ship to everyone if I can't pick up.

how do we decide who gets what? I'd love any of the nice anemones, but I can't really afford them, even at half price. And who's getting the garibaldi? someone needs to set up a giant tank...

The only thing I'm interested that I can afford is the spirorbid worm cluster, but if someone else really wants it that's fine.

edit: oop, just reread the part about shipping, so j/k about the shipping cost part, idk

well, assuming all the livestock we want that is still available is there, i dont think you'll have room in your fish tank for what i'm wanting to buy, cause it looks like some of those anemones are already a pretty good size. so conundrum #2 is thrown in there...

if it's local pickup only, i suppose the pickup person could just run straight to the nearest USPS and ship stuff out. actually, jamie - i'd be willing to buy that spirorbid for you (and pay for shipping my stuff out) if you can make the trip and do the shipping. the least i can do for all you've done for my tank

i'm passing on the garibaldi...hard enough keeping the tank clean as it is.

ok, well my parents immediate response was no, but I can still accept shipping stuff. I don't know about holding it all. I have a spare chiller and a whole bunch of empty five gallon tanks, which I could link up as holding tanks just to keep everything in. I'd have to be able to get everything out to you guys in a few days though, because that wouldn't be a great long term solution.

IMPORTANT UPDATE:

So, Ken contacted me today about the possible sale thing, with a new offer. He offered to sell us everything on the site for $250. I totalled up everything on the site (he said there's one of each organism, so about $1300). We end up getting, like 80% off (so multiply whatever the price of the organism listed is by .2, and you get the new price!). We can only get this deal if:

a. someone drives down and picks it up
b. we take absolutely everything - that means someone must take the big stuff like the garibaldi, and the large urticinas (which will eat your fish, by the way, if given the chance).

I really want to take him up on this offer, because it makes everything sooo cheap, I'm pretty sure none of us are going to see another white-spotted rose for $40 for a very long time, if ever.

He also said he might be interested in selling his chiller (1/3 HP) so if anyone wants it let me or him know. He is a member here now (coolwaves), so you could probably pm him if you have questions.



So who's in on this? I might be able to convince my parents to let me drive down, but if not, someone else might have to. I do have the means to set up holding tanks for things before the animals are shipped out.

I would be if D, holds the livestock for me. I might able to get the tank up and running sometime this week or next.

1. Who's gonna go get the stuff

2. Who's gonna ship multiple packages out?

Me me me!
Though all I'll really be able to put in my tank are some of the hermits and chitons.. not sure what else.

Yea, guess thats my issue also.

I just noticed that lani has 14,000 posts. Girl you needz to get laid baddddddddddddd.

I will get stuff if this happens.
I will setup aan aquarium for these prices.

Great...now she is going to come back with a comment about the prowess of men. Don't you realize it is pretty easy to have 14,000 posts when 13,500 are just one word, BANNED?

eh, como?

Foo' be trippin'.

exactly....................

ibtb

i wanted all the nems he had anyway, and a CUC. so i'm in on that and whatever Don's gonna stick in my tank.

hahaha. well guess I should get the chiller ordered and work on take the ap24 down since the livestock is gone now.

Okay, we need to get back to him asap, so, here is a list of everything that's for sale, if you want it, say so. If you're local, please say if you can drive or not, that would be very helpful. I've adjusted the prices to what they will be after the discount.

Urticina lofotensis - 39.80
Phymanthia pluvia - 39.80
Urticina coriacea - 13.80
A. xanthogrammica - 11.80
5 Hermits - 9.00
Lined Chiton - 9.00
Mossy Chiton - 4.80
Garibaldi (juvi) - 39.60
Spirorbid worms - 7.60
Epiactis australiensis - 28.40
Oyster - 4.8
Urticina crassicornis - 37.00
Keyhole Limpet - 10.60
Kelp Crab - 6.20

(that comes out to be 262.20, and we only need 250, but we can polish up the prices later, this is just for a general idea)

In your list, put a star by something if you really want it - and don't worry about claiming something if someone already has, or claiming more than you actually want to pay for, we'll work that out later - this is just to see who wants what so we can make everyone happy.

my list: U. lofotensis, spirorbid worms, *Epiactis australiensis, kelp crab.

Put me down for these:


Urticina lofotensis - 39.80 2 if possible

Lined Chiton - 9.00

Garibaldi maybe depends on size

thanks, Horus

I'll go ahead and mark stuff for Daniel I'm sure he will get on and correct it later.

*Urticina lofotensis - 39.80
*Phymanthia pluvia - 39.80
*Urticina coriacea - 13.80
*A. xanthogrammica - 11.80
*5 Hermits - 9.00
*Lined Chiton - 9.00
*Mossy Chiton - 4.80
Garibaldi (juvi) - 39.60
Spirorbid worms - 7.60
*Epiactis australiensis - 28.40
Oyster - 4.8
*Urticina crassicornis - 37.00
*Keyhole Limpet - 10.60
Kelp Crab - 6.20

And ofcourse since we do have a large tank and several extra empty tanks we could probably take anything anyone else doesn't want.

add a * next to the oyster and that's my list.

if it came down to it, and the baldi is the last thing left, i'd take it too just so it has a larg(ish) home.

Since D seems to be buying up everything, I'll just blackmail him into sending stuff my way.

in a 5.5????????????




and at lani

There's only one of each thing, so you'll only be getting the one lofotensis (that is, if daniel will let you )

I was hoping for just one of the big anemones, and since more than one person already wants the U. lofotensis, I'm taking that off my list.

dsh+arw - would it be okay with you guys if I took the E. australiensis? You'll have to duke it out with Horus to see who gets the U. lofotensis though.

I don't know about the garibaldi - my sister is going to Whitman next year, and they have big coldwater tanks (remember hoobahans?) so maybe I could just donate it to them.

E. austral to you is fine with me Jamie - just keep me first on the list for future offspring possibilities, of course Aren't Epiactis brooders?

Horus and I can work something out I'm sure.

Gah, don't remind me about Whitman, I shoulda gone there






Bigger issue than the nitpicking of who gets what is...

who's gonna pick up everything?

well, my parents have not been receptive to my attempts to convince them, so hopefully someone else will chime in.

I guess if no one does I could just run away at night and leave a note.

So basically there's nothing left for the rest of us to buy.

right now, I should have the tank up and running by next week.

*5 Hermits - 9.00- 1 is fine
*Lined Chiton - 9.00
*Mossy Chiton - 4.80
Oyster - 4.8
*Keyhole Limpet - 10.60
Kelp Crab - 6.20

1 hermit is fine if people want to split them up. dshnarw and I can have our packages shipped to one place since we live close.

bump. still looking for a driver....

What ya mean by driver. I live in Eugene and have a 130 coldwater tank goin. Ken is a friend of mine. Do you need me to drive stuff up to portland for you?

how'd you get $39 for the garibaldi? 55% off $198 is a bit more than that o.O

cuz its 80% off not 55.

hmm, that wasn't what I was thinking, but it would certainly be nice. I meant someone from Portland drive down to Eugene to get the stuff, then bring it back - I didn't know we had anyone in Eugene that was interested. We might be able to do some sort of meet-halfway thing, too, which would be less of a drive for both of us.






yep, new offer.