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YUMMY!!! I love seafood and fresh fish. My grandparents were always eating seafood or fish. Grandpa always fishing anywhere. Like some of you maybe, he'd take trips just for fishing.
That's a big crab. And that second cut, is that a shark or swordfish? Big A shrimp!
 
That would be Swordfish. I had people asking for very large shrimp so I got them. I have never seen shrimp that size either. The crab is huge based on my experience catching them as a kid. Even then they had to measure 6 inches across the shell.
 
Meerkat said:
Looks like things are coming along nicely.
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Yeah. Had a mishap with the generator at 7 pm on sunday. It still runs but quit making electricity. Called a buddy that had one and beat feet half way across the state to get it. All is well, it is quieter than the one I had and will run all day and then some on 6 gallons.
 
Cnsper said:
Last Thursday I picked up my first load of seafood. In 7 days I have sold about 4600 dollars worth of seafood. I have had some suprises with the demand for higher priced stuff. 16 to 20 oz lobster tails, started out with 10 pounds down to two. 8 ounce tails are down to two. Swordfish, halibut. Large shrimp all gone. Alligator is gone. 30 pounds of Dungeness crab is gone.

It has been an amazing trip this week. I am going to like this. I have dang near paid for the original load
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Good for youy Cnsper!:clapping::great:
 
The final numbers are in. My first months gross sales was $17,484.10

Not bad for a redneck with a fishing pole...lol

Suprises sellers up here are

Dungeness Crab
Ahi Tuna
Alligator
Softshell Crab

These are the top 5 items by gross revenue.
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Only 3 pounds separate mahi and halibut by weight. These are my top two selling fish.
 
9 days into this month and I have already sold 41.5% of what I did all of last month.

Even added a new stop where it should not do well because it is a very poor area. It does better than many of the other stops that i have.

You cannot discount areas like this or small towns. Towns of 500 to 3000 in population seem to do better for me.
 
Bacpacker said:
That is great news.
I wonder if it is due to the fact they are limited in the goods they can get in the smaller towns, just not much to choose from?
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I believe that has a lot to do with it. But even some towns are only 30 minutes from a larger town. I think that I carry more variety though.

After starting I found out that there were 2 others doing the same thing.

Guy #1 has 2 types of salmon, 2 types of cod, 2 types of crab. Smoked salmon in a can and smoked cod. Sometimes he has shrimp.

Guy #2 has prefilled mixed boxes. Basically you have to buy what he has put together.

I have
2 sizes of scallops
2 sizes of lobster tails
4 sizes of shrimp
Alligator
Crawfish
14 choices of fish
Clams
Mussels
Oysters
3 types of crab

Guy #1 has already asked me to park somewhere else in one town because he has been there for 2 years and will be getting us confused.
 
Today was a great day. The best so far for sales. Prior to today the best day was about 100 miles down the road at $1400 in sales. Today I did $2775 in sales on my second trip to this town.

I have surpassed my sales for last month today also. It seems like this was the right idea for me.

The other two guys are giving discounts and working 6 days a week instead of 4 but my sales keep climbing. They focus on Alaska seafood but Alaska is not the only place with good seafood.

I added Frog legs and have sold 15 pounds in 4 days. I have also added smoked salmon and that moves well too.

Ended up getting 4 pounds of Monkfish, posted it on facebook page and had it spoken for within an hour.

All in all I am having fun.
 
I finally convinced my supplier to bring these in. Got so excited I almost wet myself.
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Argentine Red Shrimp

The excitement is because they are on par or lower in price than farmed shrimp.

The wild gulf shrimp that I have are 16/20 size and sell for $19.99 a pound. These are 13/15 size and sell for $15.99 per pound.

I am really getting to enjoy this stuff. You always get your price shoppers and tire kickers but overall pretty good experience.

I don't even try to compete with the stores on price, I kick their ass on quality.
 
Cnsper said:
The final numbers are in. My first months gross sales was $17,484.10

Not bad for a redneck with a fishing pole...lol

Suprises sellers up here are

Dungeness Crab
Ahi Tuna
Alligator
Softshell Crab

These are the top 5 items by gross revenue.
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Only 3 pounds separate mahi and halibut by weight. These are my top two selling fish.
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As I mentioned in your original post about starting this business I loved meeting the shrimp boats coming in when I was peddling shrimp out of my van in Florida 30 yr ago, it was fun.:thumbs:
 
Now I have a question for you all. I am having a new a-frame sign made. I got these today as proofs.

My question is which one would you notice. This will be reflective material for night visibility.

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Cnsper said:
Now I have a question for you all. I am having a new a-frame sign made. I got these today as proofs.

My question is which one would you notice. This will be reflective material for night visibility.

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Definitely the first 2.
The others look too much like kids cartoon characters.
Nobody wants to eat Nemo or Sebastion.
 
Supervisor42 said:
Definitely the first 2.
The others look too much like kids cartoon characters.
Nobody wants to eat Nemo or Sebastion.
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I am having them make changes to the crab. I asked them to make the arrow size and position more like the lobster.
 
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