A mate of mine is in the process of opening a reptile shop in the warwickshire area, he has kept reptiles, amphibs and inverts for years and worked in the reptile trade for many years. Anyway I said I would do a bit of reserch for him and ask a couple of questions,

1; How far are you willing to travel to a decent reptile shop?
2; Is sunday opening important or usefull to you?
3; Would late night opening appeal to customers?
4; Is there any service you would like to see from a reptile shop that would appeal to you?

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Sundays not worth not mate,
Late night shutting would be good
I would travel a decent distance to see a GOOD rep shop,

a reptile courier system would work well for all your reptile stuff aswell.

oh and a e commerce website

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I am Specializing in Carpet python and Bredli morphs.

1; How far are you willing to travel to a decent reptile shop?
2; Is sunday opening important or usefull to you?
3; Would late night opening appeal to customers?
4; Is there any service you would like to see from a reptile shop that would appeal to you?

1; I would travel any distance to be honest esp for something on my want list.
2; Sunday opening is a must IMHO its the only day some ppl get off from work themselves.
3; Yes but not everynite maybe late opening on the day livefoods are delivered.
4; Sexing such as snake probing etc,bording reps at Holiday times and maybe local delivery of larger items.

Hope this helps your m8 out !!!!!

Baden

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where abouts in warwickshire pm if you want

1; How far are you willing to travel to a decent reptile shop? if its good a fair way
2; Is sunday opening important or usefull to you? yes thats a great thing sunday opening
3; Would late night opening appeal to customers? might do but not for me thats drinking time see
4; Is there any service you would like to see from a reptile shop that would appeal to you? yes cheaper everything LOL

I'd travel as far as it takes to source something I needed for breeding, and I think sundays are a good idea. An evening, perhaps even on a fortnightly or monthly basis which represented a promotion or meeting point could be useful. Something I'd always thought might be a draw would be organised importation from US breeders, where people were invited to look at lists from different breeders 3 or 4 times a year and imports were tailored to share freight costs etc. That way the shop could make a few quid and perhaps get more interesting stock without paying a bomb on the airfare and legalities. I will be bringing in some snakes from Applegate soon and will certainly offer a list to the forum to spread cost. I think that kind of relationship could be valuable to a shop and its customers.

sundays are a must, late night opening on one night a week has proven useful for us.

regards chaz

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Sundays a must
late opening one night a week would be good to.
I will travel any distance to the right shop, but only to one that had some more less seen stock.
undoubtedly bread and butter herps should be the main stay of any shop but it would be nice to see something else.
I have a big problem with shops selling mostly WC or CF especially totally unsuitable species such as Green Iguanas, water monitors, retics, burms and snappers/terrapins. we all now that these will end up in rescue centres in the future as most zoo will no longer take them in.

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Where abouts in the warwickshire area ??? There needs to be a few more round here i think.

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if i ever open a shop and i'd like to say when

i'd have opening from 10 - 6.30 every day but on a wednesday open 10 - 8 ish?

it gives people a chance to see some of the nocturnals out to play on a wednesday

and people could call in on their way home from work every day of the week to pick up live foods

and as i think was mentioned some sort of shippig from the us at certain time of the year would be awesome, because sometimes you just can't get things over here

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1. as far as id need to to get great service and healthy reps
2. thats a tough one it depends on the area and clientelle .. I know someone whos busiest day is a sunday and they own a rep shop
3. late nights are great.. our local rep shop does one on a thursday till 7pm
4. library of herp care books and good wel thought out care sheets with after care from the shop too

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