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the price of mice has gone up
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 10:19 pm    Post subject: the price of mice has gone up Reply with quote

i was going around looking for a couple of mice just to even out the colony and i discovered shops are charging £10 each for male and female mice i think thats robbery i remember a time youd get a mouse for £1 each
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 9:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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They are probably 'pet shop' mice, aren't there any specialality reptile shops that sell live mice?
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 11:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mice are normally only about £3 at pet shops unless you go somewhere like pets at home. The place you have been seems very expensive
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 1:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think this all depends on where you go, the local place to me was selling theirs at £18 a trio....yup it's alot in one sense for the buyer but great for the breeder Wink Laughing


Then again, and yes it's 'only' a mouse but does a slightly higher price put off impulse buys Question
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 9:52 pm    Post subject: mice Reply with quote

Then again, and yes it's 'only' a mouse but does a slightly higher price put off impulse buys Question[/quote] course it does i dont care if there magical mice i wouldn,t pay that Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 10:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

mice are £1.50 in my local shops
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 10:34 pm    Post subject: mice Reply with quote

SteveL wrote:
mice are £1.50 in my local shops
thats how much they should be
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 10:38 pm    Post subject: Re: mice Reply with quote

johonny wrote:
SteveL wrote:
mice are £1.50 in my local shops
thats how much they should be


I think that is cheap. I know mice aren't expensive to produce but for a shop to sell them for one and a half quid then the breeder must sell them for less than a pound each. I think a price of £3 is more than acceptable.
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 10:42 pm    Post subject: mice Reply with quote

yeah i agree with that but anything over that is a brutal price
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 11:31 am    Post subject: Re: mice Reply with quote

johonny wrote:
yeah i agree with that but anything over that is a brutal price

3.01 brutal?
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I wouldn't buy mice from a shop to breed from since I have seen the difference in litter sizes,quality and survival rate of private stock unless I just needed something warm to feed off quickly.
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