Amazon has entered the online pet store industry by starting their new site Wag.com. As you may have guessed, they also sell aquarium merchandise, making yet another online retailer that sells aquarium goods.

It’s hard to predict just how successful their store will be with the abundance of other online retailers out there. Shipping costs and pricing will probably have a lot to do with it.

We decided to compare Wag.com’s product pricing and availability with some other online retailers by selecting the random product Seachem Purigen (random being whatever was on the top of my ‘need to buy’ list at the time).

Purigen Pricing (for 100ml bag)
Big Al’s $8.09
Wag.com: $8.29 (100ml was the only quantity they sold as far as I could tell)
Foster and Smith Aquatics: $8.29
PetSolutions: N/A (only sell the 250 ml quantity and higher)

Based on our random product, it looks like Wag.com’s pricing falls inline with the rest of the online stores. However, only offering one specific quantity was a bit of a bummer. The other retailers offered larger quantity jars. Given Wag.com is just starting out, some limited product availabilty is to be expected. We’ll have to see how things pan out as wag.com establishes itself.

[via Reefbuilders]