Petco's $1.00 per gallon confirmed...

You guys should double check this or address it with management.
It might be a state/city thing but my receipt reads as such:

55g - $55
6.0000% sales tax - $3.30
Total - $58.30



And in my opinion those hoods are such a useless ripoff. They give you hardly enough light at all, cost a lot, and make you lose the three dimensional beauty you can get with a glass canopy.

If you plan to ever keep plants, you'll be getting rid of it anyway.

Say you want to get light into a 55g with standard hood:
Runs you around 70-80 bucks and gets you all of 40w.

Glass canopies for the fifty will run about 20-30 bucks for the pair, and then say you put one of those nice sleek Coralife T5 fixtures for 50 bucks: http://www.bigalsonline.com/BigAlsU...7/cl0/coralifefwt5aqualightdoublestriplight48

Now you have 56 watts of T5 light, (which is a little more intense than T12) three dimensional visibility and loads of space to add more lights if you decide to for the same price as the hood(s). Or maybe you could get it all even cheaper if you shop around, buy from ebay, craigslist, etc.

You could even do what i did - buy a $20 shoplite at Lowe's and get 80w of light.

Hoods are lame in my opinion. They deny me a good top view, they're a pain to clean, limit your lighting possibilities, and cost too much money for what they provide. I love my glass tops and I refuse to use anything else.
 
Sorry I'm late to this conversation. When does this sale end????? I haven't been online in a long time and now I'm really curious because if it's still going on I'm totally out to get a 20L. Is it in all areas or no???
 
9/2/07 .............:) Thank's OhNo .......
 
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ghjhreed said:
My local Petco was counting on me not being able to count. I went in to get 2 40s that I had noticed yesterday. The stores around here don't usually carry them so I had nothing to compare with for price. I chose not to buy anything else at the time so went to check out. At the checkout, they rang up a total of $80 as expected but then the tax looked like I had spent well over $200. The clerk explained that although the tanks were on sale, they were ringing up as normal price minus a coupon after The taxes were applied. The "normal" price was over $200 so I had to pay about 3 times the real state sales tax rate. I was so impressed with their honesty and stright dealing that I left both tanks sitting at the checkout. When I got home I sent off to Petco's main business site and amazingly they have failed to even acknowledge that the message was received.
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Believe it or not PETCO works very diligently to resolve all issues brought to the attention of the customer relations dept. If you have a problem, give it a bit, they'll get to you. And as others have posted. The tax thing COULD be a local city thing. Who knows.
 
I would just ask the manager at the store where you purchased it. Explain that your fellow fish nerd buddies on AC have informed you they haven't been made to pay taxes on the full price. Hopefully you will get an answer.

And if it's not to do with local laws and it is purely that they are just being jackoffs, I'll gladly send you an image of my receipt to print out and bring to them.
 
i work at a walgreens and apparently here in TN we have to charge sales tax on the full price of any item on sale. and the sales tax here is nearly 10 percent so that really sucks. no state income tax though . . .
 
Dang and here I thought California had weird/unfair laws! haha
 
I got one of these the other day, a 20h. They give you this whole book of coupons for the stuff to go with a new tank when you buy one so there was a nice discount on the total bill when I was done. My Eclipse 12 with the dwarf puffer in it sprung a leak on the bottom so I had to run out and get him a new home since I couldn't just stick him in another tank with a bunch of community fish. Any little savings helps.

Stasia
 
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