TP soft re-opening this weekend

reefer on a budget · #1 11/14/2006, 01:24 PM

folks,
heard from the reefermill that TP will have its soft reopening this weekend from 11am-10pm on the former freshwater side. i believe they'll be open during the week as well. you may just want add this stop to your fish shopping tour this weekend. i may just check it out to see what is going on and maybe have some motivation to restart again. lol jp. too bad cuz ill be out of town.
just thought id give you everyone a heads up,

delsol650 · #2 11/14/2006, 01:49 PM

Hey alex, don't want to sound stupid but TP ? for some that are not as familiar or noobs

GreshamH · #3 11/14/2006, 01:53 PM

Whelp, there goes the future of Blue Imperator, er, DSD. Doing retail and wholesale from the same building isn't a great business model. It'll make the wholesale customers think twice about dealing with them, even if both business's are owned by different people.

11-2, now that's comittment for you

GreshamH · #4 11/14/2006, 01:53 PM

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Originally posted by delsol650
Hey alex, don't want to sound stupid but TP ? for some that are not as familiar or noobs

Tropical Paradise

reefer on a budget · #5 11/14/2006, 01:58 PM

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Originally posted by GreshamH
Whelp, there goes the future of Blue Imperator, er, DSD. Doing retail and wholesale from the same building isn't a great business model. It'll make the wholesale customers think twice about dealing with them, even if both business's are owned by different people.

11-2, now that's comittment for you

reefer madness and pacific aqua farms

GreshamH · #6 11/14/2006, 02:00 PM

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Originally posted by reefer on a budget
reefer madness and pacific aqua farms

Whole different scale Alex, and you know it

FWIW, that just dates you, they don't share any longer

reefer on a budget · #7 11/14/2006, 02:21 PM

gresham, u know im outdated. i havent bought a coral in probably a year and a half.

luckily my gf lives right down the street from TP so ill more than likely check em out during the week. its always nice to welcome a new store to introduce some competition which then usually means lower prices for the consumer.

sidog1 · #8 11/14/2006, 02:55 PM

where is this?

Unarce · #9 11/14/2006, 03:08 PM

Any updates on the possible Tropical Paradise/ExoticReefs partnership?

fishsoldseprtly · #10 11/14/2006, 03:17 PM

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Originally posted by Unarce
Any updates on the possible Tropical Paradise/ExoticReefs partnership?

no partnership, just talked to John.. he will be opening his own site "ExoticFrags.us" Eddie will take over "ExoticReefs".

fishsoldseprtly · #11 11/14/2006, 03:18 PM

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Originally posted by GreshamH
Whelp, there goes the future of Blue Imperator, er, DSD. Doing retail and wholesale from the same building isn't a great business model. It'll make the wholesale customers think twice about dealing with them, even if both business's are owned by different people.

11-2, now that's comittment for you

Gresh, I totally agree with that and have expressed that to Sion as well. But oh well.

dswong01 · #12 11/14/2006, 03:24 PM

TP location is/was in San leandro

reefer on a budget · #13 11/14/2006, 03:35 PM

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Originally posted by dswong01
TP location is/was in San leandro

is

warren, told ya so sucker.

fishsoldseprtly · #14 11/14/2006, 03:41 PM

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Originally posted by reefer on a budget
is

warren, told ya so sucker.

mah bad bruddah!.. I didnt believe you.. I just didnt think it was good business. But I just got off the phone with John and I will meet up with him Thursday night to pick up his left overs.

reefer on a budget · #15 11/14/2006, 03:45 PM

warren, u should just pick-up my tank as back-up to hold all these corals you're buying.

fishsoldseprtly · #16 11/14/2006, 03:49 PM

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Originally posted by reefer on a budget
warren, u should just pick-up my tank as back-up to hold all these corals you're buying.

the biggest car I can get is a van to haul your tank in and I dont think thats gonna work.. some guy the other day said that he had just got back from your house to pick up LR and said that the prop tank was SOLD.

John is selling his display for hella cheap.

ViPeR_930 · #17 11/14/2006, 04:39 PM

Would they be open this friday as well?

Solitaryensis · #18 11/14/2006, 04:56 PM

Yup. Im helping Eddie setup the shop now and its confirmed - the soft grand opening will be this weekend and the grand opening will be the following Thursday on Thanksgiving day from 11am to 10pm.

With regard to the wholesaler in the same building, im sure Eddie realizes that this isnt the ideal situation but given the current set of circumstances this was best for all parties. With that said, i think the situation will be very beneficial to the customers and thats what Eddie cares about the most. I think its best if we, as consumers, leave the business dealings to the business men and appreciate this for what it is and will be

I have seen the corals that Eddie received for the opening and trust me, NO ONE will be dissapointed from the beginning hobbyist to the SPS freaks. It will be nice to have a quality shop in the area again.

otterpop510 · #19 11/14/2006, 06:08 PM

address?..

Maximus · #20 11/14/2006, 08:44 PM

Ahh, exoticfrags.us. Similar to a domain name I bought but have never used, lol!

Unarce · #21 11/14/2006, 09:03 PM

Hmm. What could you do with www.eroticfrags.us, Sang?

slojmn · #22 11/14/2006, 09:13 PM

Oooooo this thread is gettin good

Maximus · #23 11/14/2006, 09:50 PM

LOL Karl! I registered exoticfrags.com because I was going to use it as a home page, with my corals on there. Just never got around to it, being lazy and all.

reefkeeper1 · #24 11/14/2006, 10:24 PM

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TP will have its soft reopening this weekend from 11am-10pm

So is this a beta release that's worth checking out?

fishsoldseprtly · #25 11/14/2006, 11:57 PM

I think this is just something Eddie wants to do while his here, maybe he's just bored.