What is your favoirte internet pet supply resource? Do you have
different
favorites for different things?

I really like upco. www.upco.com
I'm getting ready to order some rimadyl for Trip from them. I'll add
some frontline and get free shipping. Their frontline is a bit cheaper
than my vet, so I usually just buy that at the vet but I checked their
rimadyl price today and a month's supply is $46 vs $75. And my vet is
very reasonably priced.

I also like Care-a-lot, but when I shop there I make the trip down to
VA Beach so I don't have to pay shipping and handling.

For special obedience stuff I like both J and J and Max 200.

Beth

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I also like Care-a-lot, but when I shop there I make the trip down to
VA Beach so I don't have to pay shipping and handling.

For special obedience stuff I like both J and J and Max 200.

I lovelovelove the leather tracking harness I bought Bodhi from J & J,
at $30.00, it is very nice.

I just wish Max 200's catalog's were a bit...uh...nicer?
;-)
Shelly & The Boys

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I lovelovelove the leather tracking harness I bought Bodhi from J & J,
at $30.00, it is very nice.

Ditto. That's where I got Winston's. I love acquiring tack.

Debbie

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What is your favoirte internet pet supply resource? Do you have different
favorites for different things?

Toys (like Kongs and Bustercubes)
Collaers and leashes
Crates
Food

Thanks everyone - I tend to buy locally too which is why I have little
on-line experience. My on-line experience has been with small operations
that don't look so small on the web e.g. Dogwise. For herding stuff I
tend to Border Collies in Action http://www.bordercollies.com/

--
Diane Blackman
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http://dogplay.com/Shop/

I bought almost all my puppy's supplies from
http://www.dresslersdog.com/

Great service and amazing prices.

I like to support online stores actually. I think there's a value in
e-commerce and it's affect on the over-all economy and business
efficiency, plus, many of these smaller online stores are mom and pop
run. :-)

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wrote:
I like to support online stores actually. I think there's a value in
e-commerce and it's affect on the over-all economy and business
efficiency, plus, many of these smaller online stores are mom and pop
run. :-)

It's unclear, actually, that small online shops are all that
efficient, and unless they occupy a unique niche they
certainly they tend to be driven out of business by the
mega-retailers just as small locally-owned businesses are.
Economic efficiencies tend to come from 1) being able to
locate costs in places where costs are low, and 2) being
able to scale buying to reduce per-unit costs. A small
online shop being run out of, say, the Bay Area (and there
are plenty) just isn't going to be able to cut costs the way
a cigarette retailer in Salamanca, NY will. I've also found
that with shipping charges, purchase price tends to be a
wash (or in some cases, higher).

Where ecommerce tends to be successful is 1) in gargantuan
outfits that can operate out of low-cost venues (like
Amazon) and 2) specialty and hard-to-find items. It's also
a win for people who don't like to leave their houses.

There's value besides dollars and cents, and I buy dog food
at the local feed shop where the people working there are
the owner, her daughter, and another experienced person.
They know their stuff and I learn something new every time I
go down there. If the only local choice were a chain store
staffed by bored teenagers, I'd probably shop online, too.
--
Melinda Shore - Software longa, hardware brevis -

For two decades your payroll taxes have been used to offset
the cost of upper-income tax cuts.

"Melinda Shore" wrote in message
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There's value besides dollars and cents, and I buy dog food
at the local feed shop where the people working there are
the owner, her daughter, and another experienced person.
They know their stuff and I learn something new every time I
go down there. If the only local choice were a chain store
staffed by bored teenagers, I'd probably shop online, too.

The folks down at I F&G are certainly nice and they always have fish
biscuits stashed for Lucy. Amazing that they rememeber that she has IBD and
is on a restricted fish/sweet potoato diet. And even more amazing that they
give her special cookies considering that Lucy has pee'ed in there three
frickin' times.

Chris and her two smoothies
Pablo and Lucy

In article ,
Chris Jung wrote:
The folks down at I F&G are certainly nice and they always have fish
biscuits stashed for Lucy. Amazing that they rememeber that she has IBD and
is on a restricted fish/sweet potoato diet. And even more amazing that they
give her special cookies considering that Lucy has pee'ed in there three
frickin' times.

That dog sounds like a pistol.

Anyway, they are pretty amazing. They remember each of my
dogs, even though most people who only see them occasionally
tend to forget which red one is which.
--
Melinda Shore - Software longa, hardware brevis -

For two decades your payroll taxes have been used to offset
the cost of upper-income tax cuts.

Melinda Shore wrote:


It's unclear, actually, that small online shops are all that
efficient, and unless they occupy a unique niche they
certainly they tend to be driven out of business by the
mega-retailers just as small locally-owned businesses are.
Economic efficiencies tend to come from 1) being able to
locate costs in places where costs are low, and 2) being
able to scale buying to reduce per-unit costs. A small
online shop being run out of, say, the Bay Area (and there
are plenty) just isn't going to be able to cut costs the way
a cigarette retailer in Salamanca, NY will. I've also found
that with shipping charges, purchase price tends to be a
wash (or in some cases, higher).

Oh, for cryin' in a bucket! I really don't want to debate purchasing
choices with you. For clarification purposes, I should have seperated
my two points.

I agree, the larger online retail outfits, ie; Amazon, Gap, Overstock
etc. have figured out ways to be more efficient through the many
demands of the constomer and they are able to provide low cost
shipping, if not free shipping (although you are paying for it in one
way or another).

The specialty online retailer, such as my some of my friends that sell
baby slings or cloth diapers online - those are the moms that work out
of their homes and are, in every sense of the definition, a family
owned and operated business.

I love internet shopping! With two little ones at home, it's a
convenience I truly appreciate.

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wrote:
I love internet shopping! With two little ones at home, it's a
convenience I truly appreciate.

I love it, too. I live in a small town and the shopping
here is limited, and when I can't find stuff locally it's a
lot more convenient to shop online than it is out of a
catalog. That does not, however, have all that much to do
with economic efficiency or providing an *alternative* to
what is available locally.
--
Melinda Shore - Software longa, hardware brevis -

For two decades your payroll taxes have been used to offset
the cost of upper-income tax cuts.