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FiestaSTLou
Yearling
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 23/08/2010 : 10:26:38
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| We go thru a endless amount of cables ties every month when its cleaning time lol very time consuming but, keeps them all in place together, stops them all getting tangled and the snakeys pulling the wires about lol |
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sullysteve
Yearling
United Kingdom
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Posted - 23/08/2010 : 10:59:26
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| i actually find it funny to watch my fellas use the cables from the thermometer as a Royal marine rope!! |
   
1.0 Corns Geoff (Ghost)
0.1 Brazilian Rainbow Boa - Heidi
1.1 Kings - Pete (Florida) + Mamba (Cali Stripe)
1.2 Ball Pythons (Pastel + Bumblebee + Normal)
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mikerichards
don't say the 'M' word!
United Kingdom
2901 Posts |
Posted - 23/08/2010 : 11:12:25
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Ok, so habistat and microclimate make a combined unit, all well and good for us, because we know the importance of having a stat, but, a huge amount of people just go to a shop and the info they get is that a stat is not needed, so won't sell a combo at about 50 quid over a mat at 15 quid, they won't sell them, so won't stock them, in turn would lead the makers not to bother because its not finacially viable.
As its one unit, and I assume the stat probe is built into the mat, what would you do if a mat broke? What about if the stat went south after a year??
You can't just plug another mat in because you wouldn't have the stat probe, again, you can't just replace the stat because its all one unit.
I have lost at least 3 mats to snakes wrapping around the wires, pulling them out of the mat, that's 30 quid in mats, or 150 quid in combos, what would you rather pay?
Not only that, but then you got 3 redundant stats that are impossible to use.
If you then made 2 separate units, a mat with a stat probe built in that could be attached by 1 wire to the stat, then that would be more expensive, would you rather have a combo that costs 30 quid for the stat and 25 quid for the mat replacement??
Or, 30 quid for a stat and the normal 10 - 15 quid for mats? |
Location : Worthing, West Sussex
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Sta~ple
qeeun speler
United Kingdom
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Posted - 23/08/2010 : 17:17:59
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True, but then reptile shops are then also facing themselves to get complaints when people do their research maybe one day or, when people come back with burnt reps. Any decent shops do stock stats. It actually suprises me that shops don't try and push for the sales of stats and use some kind of super scaring tactic in order for people to buy them as I'm sure they would make a lot of money doing this.
It depends on the warranty of the mats and stats. Ones I bought have a guarantee for 5 years, not all stats will have his I know but if they did make combos and had this kind of guarantee that would be fine for me but I guess this might not be a good option for people with many snakes if they all decided to break outside of the warranty period. Yes there is more potential for an all in one to go wrong but it would be a nice option to have. I didn't say they should stop making the separate, I just thought like the OP that it would be nice to have an all in one. If they made them in such a way that the "probe" was like a thin strip lamented into the mat, people wouldn't have to worry about probes being moved about and where to place them. I also think that they would try and make the mat and stat combos as cheaply as they could so would probably try to use other materials in order to make a mat in which you can set a temperature. |
   
A very special super, duper thanks for K :3 |
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