large exo-terra $25??!!

i should buy 10 and then offer to sell them back to petco for $100 a pop.. :devilish:

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Originally Posted by TheSnakeGeek

i should buy 10 and then offer to sell them back to petco for $100 a pop.. :devilish:

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I wish I could afford to do that. I'd do that without a second thought! LOL

I'm sure they meant to put 259.99 instead of 25.99. OH the damage one misplaced decimal can do, and all the people it can make happy! :D

Definitely hope the order doesn't get canceled. I will be one sad panda.

ETA: If you have problems ordering it on Chrome, try Internet Explorer. For some reason, Chrome was completely on Petco's side and didn't want me to order it (LOL), but when I got on IE (literally the first time I opened it, aside to download Chrome), it worked just fine.

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Originally Posted by Reptile Bob

And for lols, read the comments of people ordering the cage who never had reptiles before.

http://slickdeals.net/permadeal/9753...lass-terrarium

A quote from a commenter on that site:
FeedMeAlmonds ( 211 FeedMeAlmonds ) Jun. 23, 2013 at 11:04pm
Over 20,000 views. If 10,000 of those viewers only order one unit each this error would cost petco well over $2 million dollars. Waste of time to order any but it was always a waste of time to read this so order away!

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Nice job Petco. Now all those fools who have no need for them but are buying them anyway just because they're so cheap will have to get "a turtle or something to throw in it". Now in the next few months thousands of turtles and geckos will either die or get tossed into the back yard when the new owners get tired of messing with them.

Here's one of my favorite comments: "in for 1 and I dont even like pets..however if it ships maybe Ill buy some snakes and mice."

Yay Petco!!!

You can bet someone got fired.

I almost have a feeling that even if they DON'T cancel the orders, they'll let them all go out for several reasons.
Yeah, they'll lose a ton of money on those cages BUT....

Tons of people who would have NEVER gotten reptiles before will be going to -where?- PETCO to get reptiles.
These clueless people will be asking Petco associates what is good for the reptiles they're buying. More than likely, the Petco associates will just tell them what they've been told to say and suggest stuff they have in the store. You know what sales associates (in every retail store) are told to do? UP-SELL, UP-SELL, UP-SELL!
That ups live reptile (and probably feeder) sales AND merchandise sales in general.

I think even with this potentially HUGE loss (if they honor it!) it could turn around to make them an even bigger profit.... So who knows? I'll keep my fingers crossed. :)

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Originally Posted by Reptile Bob

And for lols, read the comments of people ordering the cage who never had reptiles before.

http://slickdeals.net/permadeal/9753...lass-terrarium

A quote from a commenter on that site:
FeedMeAlmonds ( 211 FeedMeAlmonds ) Jun. 23, 2013 at 11:04pm
Over 20,000 views. If 10,000 of those viewers only order one unit each this error would cost petco well over $2 million dollars. Waste of time to order any but it was always a waste of time to read this so order away!

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Holy moly. I can't imagine buying something I know I won't use just because its cheap! Seems like most of those people had no intentions of actually using the tank, just reselling it or putting it in the garage with more junk. Boo I was hoping it went through to use it as a nice QT/display tank.

I so get 2 if we had the funds I know of 2 projects I could so love to setup in them.

I used to work for Petco, and somehow, someway, i think Petco is just going to weasel out of this one. I doubt few, if any are actually going to be shipped for that price. Surely someone at their shipping warehouse noticed, before they fixed the ad.

sent from my incubator

The add is still up and still on sale for 25.99 you would think if it was a mistake they would have fixed it by now.

The page says 25.99 but then go to the cart and now that shows 259.99. I tried ordering on last night but kept getting a error so I gave up.