[MechEng99]

There are just some LFS like that. It's easier and better for their bottom line to claim a $100 loss than to sell it to you for $10. IMO, we all need to be responsible aquarists, and when a store cares more about their bottom line on a few pieces than being responsbile, I choose to no longer shop there.

Some LFS are also nervous to sell poor-health corals to someone trying to "rescue" them as they are worried that when the corals die, the buyers will come back and complain about the store. They aren't willing to take that risk for $10, but they will for $100 or whatever price.

Just keep trying though. Some of my LFS here took a while to warm up to me. Once they realized I wasn't going to bash them if the corals died, and that I was writing blogs on how to save the corals, they started taking me in the back rooms to their hospital tanks to give me stuff.