Re: [Killietalk] Auction prices

["YoHoHo" <yohoho at insightbb_com>]

Our auctions in the Chicago Killifish Association have a minimum of $5 a 
pair for killifish, with other items going for whatever they might bring. 
We started that policy about a year ago and it has seemed to work well. 
Interestingly, many times it is plants that bring the higher prices, 
although the bidding gets "spirited" when two or more members see a certain 
bag of fish that they want.
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Frank Carriglitto
AKA#08234, ChiKA, WAKO

----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Tim Addis" <timaddis at killifish_force9.co.uk>
> To: "killifish discussion list" <killietalk at aka_org>
> Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2006 9:01 PM
> Subject: [Killietalk] Auction prices
>
>
>> On the BKA newsgroup we are talking over prices at auctions & helping
>> breeders out. Do the AKA auctions set a start price at auction?
>> How cheap would you sell your fish? Breeders should get a good return. In
>> the UK we are faced with crazy increases in fuel prices making fish house
>> heating costs go through the roof.
>> How do you balance a price for fish in keeping & attracting membership?
>> A point has to be reached where keeping a fish house becomes too
>> expensive.
>> This is not good for any of us.
>> In the US you have basement fish houses but usually in the UK we build
>> sheds
>> in the garden & lay power down to them.
>> Obviously the answer is breed fish & sell surplus fish/eggs to pay costs.
>> This forces people to breed fish & help in conservation. Right........
>>               Tim
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> Message: 5
> Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 20:08:44 EST
> From: LeeH920226 at aol_com
> Subject: Re: [Killietalk] Auction prices
> To: killietalk at aka_org
>
> Just recently at our local auctions (Keystone Killy Group) we set a 
> starting
> bid for pairs of killies at $4.00. Everyone seemed to think that was a 
> good
> idea. The donor was willing to take the fish home if no one bid that much. 
> Other
> items can start less -- like plants, food, equipment but a pair of killies 
> is
> certainly worth more than $4.00.
>
> Lee Harper
> Media PA

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> Message: 6
> Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 21:49:50 EST
> From: BrandtEdL at aol_com
> Subject: Re: [Killietalk] Auction prices
> To: killietalk at aka_org
>
> Lee, I have to agree that any pair of killies should get atleast $4.   Try
> the pet shops and aquabid and pay as much as $37.95 on Dr. Foster and 
> Smith  on
> the net.  Ed Brandt

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> Message: 7
> Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 22:33:51 -0500
> From: "karl doering" <kilikarl at bignet_net>
> Subject: Re: [Killietalk] Auction prices
> To: "killifish discussion list" <killietalk at aka_org>
>
> At the last Milwaukee (November) they had 4 pair of Diapterons (Georgiae &
> Fulgens) went for over $100.00 a pair
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