Clean Up Crew Bulk Buy

Where do you live?
There is a group buy coinciding with the fall frag fest

 

here

 

Group Buy is for Keys Critters. Prices will be at or below what's listed including shipping.

--AJ

 

FYI we did a club group by from ReefCleaners.org earlier and it wasn't a great experience.

The forgot to include a number of the items that were ordered and some items were DOA (all of my Ceriths for example).

To be fair, they did refund our money for the omissions and losses but it still wasn't a good experience.

The other problem with them is that their selection of non-snail invertebrates (crabs, shrimp, stars etc) varies wildly depending on the day you hit their site...

Personally, I'd rather order from KeyCritters. I've ordered some stuff from them before for our office tank and everything arrived packed well and alive...

-JB

 

Hey Rutherford,
I was curious after you mentioned Reef Cleaners having better prices so I checked it out. I couldn't find an instance where they beat the group buy price.

For example:
blue leg hermits - group buy is less than half the price (.49 vs .20)
dwarf cerith - group buy is .03 cheaper
large cerith - group buy is .03 cheaper

Now, there is certainly an inventory difference between the two where Reef Cleaners offers a variety of macro algaes and Keys Critters is all livestock...but unless you're really dead set on getting some of their macro algae or some chitons or limpets, you have a much wider variety to select from ordering from Keys.  I was *very* surprised to see that Reef Cleaners did not have astrea snails.  
Shipping on the Keys Critters group buy is included in the listed prices, you don't have to worry about getting your order up to $150 to get free shipping. 
This is a members only group buy so maybe you're factoring in the cost of your membership, I don't know, but I can't see any reason why someone would prefer to purchase from Reef Cleaners vs take advantage of the group buy that we already have arranged with Keys Critters based on the prices that I'm seeing.

Finally, the prices that are published for the group buy are subject to change...yeah, they could go even lower. The more that is purchased by the club as a whole, the lower the prices will go. Some items will go down more than others so any additional discount would depend on what was ordered. Initial payment will be for the amounts specified on the group buy and any discounts will be handled as refunds at the time of pickup.

Let me know if you have any questions about the Keys Critters group buy.

--AJ

 

Heh, I forgot about the Limpets and Chitons. Those were one nice thing about ReefCleaners.org, but all of my limpets quickly committed suicide by trying to clean the outside of my tank!

The chitons lasted for a while until all of the algea was gone from my Frag tank, then they disappeared. They were cool though.

-JB

 

Limpets...the lemmings of the marine world...haha

Didn't someone else say that they had some not only crawl out of their tank, but halfway across the room before they were discovered? Pretty funny.

--AJ

 

OK, I understand better now. I thought that I had checked around really good to make sure that Keys was giving us the most aggressive pricing around so your post just caught me by surprise. Yeah, this economy is hurting everyone. Everything costs more and not many people are getting more money to compensate for the increases...

If you change your mind, you may want to see if there is anyone from the DSM area that will assist you with transportation of your order since I know many of them will be going right down I-80 to attend Fall Fest. Good luck with everything!

--AJ