[emc7]

there are lots of vendors, some in the vendor rooms, some in hotel rooms. The dry goods are often donated by the manufacturers and wholesalers that show up to promote new products. In general prices on dry goods seem to about what you get on the web which is generally 1/2 of retail. Dry goods in the auction are often even better deals. Vendors such as bayleesfishees.com and jehmco.com come down and sell at web prices or even a discount from that. You may need to pay sales tax, but not shipping, so its good to stock up. Late Saturday night, you may see additional discounting because no one likes to haul stuff home. Fish prices are often around wholesale/web prices, but the rarest/newest may go quite high. And uncommon cichlids will fetch more at ACA than locally. But common cichlids like yellow labs will be almost given away (if you even see them).

In the rooms, I'd say a typical fish goes $4-20 /ea. In the auction $1-300 a bag.