12th Annual All Ohio Fragswap!!!

[Caryliss]

Just a reminder for everyone:

12th Annual All-Ohio Frag Swap, sponsored by C-SEA

Date: Sunday, March 25, 2007

Noon to 4 pm, with HUGE raffle beginning at 3 pm

Location (same site as last year):

American Legion Hall--Clifton Post
22001 Brookpark Rd
Fairview Park, OH 44126

directions at www.c-sea.org

Vendors so far:
The Coral Shoppe
Eden's Gate
MACNA--PMAS will be there to sell discounted tickets
North Coast Aquatics
Phishy Business

Fragswapper has been set up to pre-arrange trades

Hope to see everyone there!

[Caryliss]

Oops, just realized I lost a paragraph on the cut and paste in my last post.

Additional info:

Admission $5 per adult; under 14 yrs old is free
--admission gets you 4' of table space and 4 hours of frag swappin' madness!
--electricity available (within reason--leave the 1000W MH at home please)
--doors open to swappers at 12 noon
--food available in attached restaurant and bar (we'll try to make sure the cook has more help this year!)
--plenty of free parking.

And don't forget the dry goods raffle at the end of the swap!
$1 per ticket; $5 for 6 tickets

[Caryliss]

New vendor: Reed Mariculture

Unfortunately The Coral Shoppe has decided not to attend

[Caryliss]

New vendor:

Triton Aquatics

[bond007069]

lets see this get some more attention

[cepaw]

I can't wait for this
last year I bought 3 hairy mushrooms
last week I sold 7 and I still have 9
this turned out to be a great beginner coral for me
I'm currently changing my tank to a more specific tank
zoo's - rics - and some monti's
but the advice and frag I bought last year really encouraged me to keeping corals
What a great event.

[Python73]

I'm coming out with some other PMAS members. Already put in a bunch of Fragswapper wants, but our camera cord was lost in the move so I can't list anything. SIGH. Maybe I'll toss some in a box at the last minute.

If you know Adam, PM him and bust his chops for being lazy. I offered to bring out and broker his frags while he is off on his trip. So no Adam frags for joo!

S !

[ironheads]

I've almost reserved my limit already. I'm just wondering what else could possibly show up?......I want one of everything......AGHHHHH!!!

[Jim_Leyland]

do you have to be a member to come? i would love to come out and get in the raffle maybe i can win something and it will help get my tank set up! if you don't have to be a member ill be there for sure!

[Caryliss]

The swap is open to everyone, you do not have to be a member.

[HookedOnCoral]

If i bring my girlfriend would she have to pay too?

[Caryliss]

Yes, $5 admission per person (free for 13 yrs & under)

[itZme]

Originally posted by HookedOnCoral
If i bring my girlfriend would she have to pay too?

Originally posted by Caryliss
Yes, $5 admission per person (free for 13 yrs & under)

On the other hand if your girlfriend is 13yrs old or under she gets in free

It is worth the $5 to let her come in and "get the bug" then she will see things that she loves and you will "have" to buy them "for her"

[bond007069]

Oh itZme your such a romantic

[HookedOnCoral]

Im gonna have to start dating younger girls i guess lol

[yznhmr]

anyone interested in colored sticks?

[bond007069]

Originally posted by yznhmr
anyone interested in colored sticks?

Yeap

[mike660r]

Originally posted by Jim_Leyland
do you have to be a member to come? i would love to come out and get in the raffle maybe i can win something and it will help get my tank set up! if you don't have to be a member ill be there for sure!

You don't have to be a member. You can come see me and join though and support the club. Your membership can help enrich the club even further.

[Jasonf08]

Im going to go, i havent been to a frag swap before & am looking forward to it.

[MJAnderson]

Originally posted by itZme
On the other hand if your girlfriend is 13yrs old or under she gets in free

This is for any reefers coming up from Kentucky or Arkansas. Hopefully the savings will help offset busfare...

[Willie_6]

I am starting to see more listers put a disclaimer on their listings about buying the item by a certain amount of time. After visitng the last couple of swaps I do realise that some people buyers and sellers never follow through on their purchase/sale.

My suggestion for this is that more listers accept pay pal. This way the sellers can relax knowing that their corals are paid for. The buyers are protected through their credit cards and I believe pay pal offers fraud protection as well.

In addition to the piece of mind this gives everyone, it will make the transaction easier. How many listers are going to carry change?

I know some people do not have a pay pal account, but they are free to set up. You can use it on Ebay and many other sites too. There is a charge to person receiving money of like 2%. If you feel the need you could ask the buyer to cover that on a pay pal transaction or better yet-split it.

That's my opinion. As a buyer, I would like to go to the frag swap knowing I have most of my purchases paid for and know I can just go shop for more. I also do not need to worry about change.

What do you all think about this?

[Jasonf08]

Being this is my first frag swap, would i be able to bring cash and purchase frags there without any pre-arrangments?

Thanks

[Caryliss]

Absolutely Jason. Lots of people do this, and not everyone lists their frags on fragswapper. There will also be vendors there with corals for sale.

[Willie_6]

Originally posted by Jasonf08
Being this is my first frag swap, would i be able to bring cash and purchase frags there without any pre-arrangments?

Thanks

Yes. The only pre-arrangements are through fragswapper.com. Those listings are by individuals that want to sell some of their corals. There will be many other stores there, that you will be able to come in and purchase things from.

[Jasonf08]

Wow... Thanks for the speedy response. i dont have much to trade at this point since all mine are prettymuch large frags at this point, so i wanted to attend & see if i found anything interesting. Thanks again for the help.