Would you buy these?

I'm working on setting up something where I could sell my own photos as cage and enclosure backgrounds and I was wondering if anyone HAS bought from cages by design or if anybody WOULD buy from them.

Do you think the prices are fair?
If not how much would you pay for a quality laminated background?

Cages by Design - Cages & Accessories for Reptiles, Birds, Small Animals

 

I've heard too many bad reviews on the cages to spend money on one of their backgrounds. But this thread reminds me of another.

 

Agreed!!

 

To much for my broke self.

 

They are pretty... but way too expensive. Up to $500 for a background? Nope. You can buy large stock photographs for WAY cheaper, and cut them to size, and they're usually every bit as good. I like the "we'll use one of yours for $50 extra" too. If you have your own photo, take it to a printer and have it printed for you. It'll cost a lot less.

 

Those background prices are almost 4 times the price I paid for the tanks to begin with,,,,,,,,rediculous. I make my own backgrounds (My son Tyler and I make a collage out of pics from reptile magazine) It's fun for us,,,,,,unique,,,,and I think looks better than those shown.

 

I like to glue together puzzles and then cut them to fit. That way I can change it around: any season, holiday, whatever appeals to me. You really can't tell most are puzzles.

 

Thanks so much for all of your responses, I was amazed at how much they charged for background myself and was wondering if people actually paid for them.
Sure if I was going to drop $5k on an enclosure what's about $500 for a pretty picture? But really for that kind of money I could go to Utah myself snap a picture of some desert and get it printed!

 

What type of process would be used to make them water proof / clean able. I know around here misting the cage often will lead to Ca scale build up and any surface will have to be cleaned with something like vinegar on occasion. Not to mention igs and snalt

 

I haven't found a local laminater who can do anything larger than 36 inches wide yet, so it means i may have to look online or send extra large backgrounds in two peices, which most people would probably not like, but i'm still in the research stages, as far as printing costs go prices are way up there for the enlargements, i'm looking at my options though.

I'd probably start off small with the normal sized aquarium backgrounds, 5,10,20,29,40,55,100 gallon tanks and such and do anything larger on a per-person basis because i'll have to go through special channels to get those larger, plus not all of my images are high enough resolution to do a huge tank...

What sorts of things would you guys like to see as backgrounds?

 

For a tank, just tape it to the outside and it is good for years and years.

I like just plain black posterboard on the back of my tanks. And it only costs 35 cents.

 

Ken,

Could you post a pic of one of those backgrounds? I'm curious how it looks, and might want to make one with my daughter. She loves projects like that.

Jen

 

Lacey,

I would love to have a background of the Aurora Borealis, esp. since the geckos like nighttime. I guess an ocean scene would be nice - for my hermit crabs D ). A night desert sky would be neat, too.

As to the CBD ones, I think their pictures are gorgeous. I don't have that kind of money either, but I guess if I did I might buy one. I don't understand their exorbitant prices either.

Jen

 

Mark,

Just out of curiosity, what bad things have you heard?

Jen

 

The aurora is beautiful, I use it as my screen saver...now if only I lived more north so I could see more than a faint glow...

Here are some of my pics that I thought people might like as backgrounds:
Flickr: Search

And just my pictures: Flickr: Photos from Moshpitrockchick (shameless self promotion never hurt anyone)