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Originally Posted by TheOldSalt
The banks know that almost all petshops fail, and fail quickly, and that pet knowledge plays virtually NO PART WHATSOEVER in determining how well a store will do. The bad guys win every time.
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This is very true, but the pet stores around here no nothing about animals, nor do they take care of their own animals. For this reason, i was able to keep mine open, because people will see that you have a love for animals and they trust in you cuz they know your animals are healthy. The worst part of the year in the summer months. During these months, people are out on vacatins, or outside doing whatever and they seem to forget they own an animal. But, i live right next to lake cumberland, so i get alot of out of town traffic, they comes in to buy dog stuff, water toys, dog grooming, and soo on.
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Originally Posted by TheOldSalt
There's no money in the pet biz unless you become one of the very scumbags you built your store to fight, unless by chance you build it in the perfect spot, which you can bet some other petshop already occupies.
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Well, the position of hte pet store is very crucial. Thankfully, i got it before others did, and ive put the 2 other pet stores out of business because they suck at hte business. Like for instance, a place called Fish 'N Friends went out of business because people found out they were feeding KITTENS to their 12 foot burmese. So, poeple got very angry, starting coming to my store. I myself, feed our 10ft snakes frozen Colossal rats.
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Originally Posted by TheOldSalt
As for your love of the hobby, well, you can kiss THAT goodbye after it starts to destroy you a few months after opening. Once it's a job, and a hard one which pays less than you'd make delivering pizza, you may find yourself never wanting to look at another fish.
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Yes it is a very hard job. I work 7 days a week, 11am-7pm sometimes later to finish water changes on my 80+ fish tanks and to put up stock. You jsut have to know what sells in your area.
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Originally Posted by TheOldSalt
Me? Bitter?
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Nope, you speak the truth
~kyle