You can throw number's around all you want, but here's a number that matter's, I just got a package delivered with 14lbs. of grain delivered to my doorstep in 2 day's for $6.99. So go ahead and pay exorbitant shipping prices if you want , that's your choice. I realize shipping prices have skyrocketed, that doesn't mean you can't find good deals.
Really? You got 100% organic grain delivered for that price? From which store? Sure wasn't the only store where the brewer has a halfway-decent selection of organic ingredients, 'cause there's only one of those and their shipping charges are
real. Your example is pointless.
It's not "throwing number's [sic] around"; it's simple truth. You're refusing to believe objective fact: Shipping that weight from them to you costs them that much money. Period. Dot. End of story.
Here's something you're failing to consider. Any person or company who will take that big of a hit on the shipping is making the margin somewhere else. No matter how you cut it,
you are still paying for the shipping. No sane business owner gives "deals" like that without making it up in accounting somewhere. At least Seven Bridges is honest about it. Your supplier has done an excellent job of hiding his actual costs and fooling you into thinking you're getting a good deal.
Let me state it a different way: Just because he charges
you $6.99 doesn't mean it costs
him $6.99. It costs him, to use my earlier example, $23.34. Which means that he has to find $16.35 somewhere in his books. Where do you think he's going to find that money?
By raising the prices of everything else he sells. Which means you pay it, one way or the other.
If you knew these facts, you wouldn't have said what you said. Maybe I should have left you alone; after all, ignorance is bliss. But you should know how retail works, my friend, for your own sake.
Cheers,
Bob
EDIT:I'd rather have a retailer give me a real number than hide it. It's dealing with honesty and integrity, and that means mountains in my business dealings. If it's all about the money with you - and it appears that's so - dude, just have fun. You're the reason why small-town mom-and-pop stores are dying all over America and Wal*Mart is thriving. And while that's sad, I can't stop you. So just have fun.