Shipping powder

^^ 3 pounds of powder, 15% tax, shipping and hazmat fee total to my door was 133$. hell powder alone in halifax is 49.99$ a pound. If I'm buying 3 or more pounds it cheaper to pay frees and shipping then to buy it an hour away locally. its a great deal.
 
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Evanguy said:
^^ 3 pounds of powder, 15% tax, shipping and hazmat fee total to my door was 133$. hell powder alone in halifax is 49.99$ a pound. If I'm buying 3 or more pounds it cheaper to pay frees and shipping then to buy it an hour away locally. its a great deal.
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I don't know, I always get free shipping. Doesn't really matter what local price is, I don't compare to that.
 
Evanguy said:
^^ 3 pounds of powder, 15% tax, shipping and hazmat fee total to my door was 133$. hell powder alone in halifax is 49.99$ a pound. If I'm buying 3 or more pounds it cheaper to pay frees and shipping then to buy it an hour away locally. its a great deal.
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Which powder did you get from rustywood that ended up 133$ after tax and shipping for 3 pounds? Everything listed on his website is 45$/pound (which turns out to be 135$ for 3 pounds, even before tax and shipping) except 800X, but buying 800X anywhere other than canam makes no sense.

Everything at RW seems grossly overpriced. Equipment, brass, powder, primers, you name it, everyone else has a better price.
 
yeah and my next order will be a free shipping one, i can see hows that's ideal. also with my new 284 build ill want a few pound from the same lot.

i basically just posted that because the OP said it was an EXTRA 122 dollars for shipping 2 pounds, i was getting at for 133 you can get 3 pounds and not pay the original fee that the 122 was additional too. [ although as your pointed out, i am wrong in this case and the prices have gone up quite a bit]

also it was 3 pounds of titegroup, it was 30 dollars a pound, it was about 2 months before the liberals got in, then i noticed that same week powder went up in price. i havnt looked into buying powder since then i was given quite a bit for me needs. im pretty surprised to hears it up to 45 a pound now. and after reading your post, im going to look into better prices, i went with them because i needed 43 Mauser brass and they had it in stock.

i planned on make my next order from western metal and getting the free shipping
 
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Evanguy said:
yeah and my next order will be a free shipping one, i can see hows that's ideal. also with my new 284 build ill want a few pound from the same lot.

i basically just posted that because the OP said it was an EXTRA 122 dollars for shipping 2 pounds, i was getting at for 133 you can get 3 pounds and not pay the original fee that the 122 was additional too. [ although as your pointed out, i am wrong in this case and the prices have gone up quite a bit]

also it was 3 pounds of titegroup, it was 30 dollars a pound, it was about 2 months before the liberals got in, then i noticed that same week powder went up in price. i havnt looked into buying powder since then i was given quite a bit for me needs. im pretty surprised to hears it up to 45 a pound now. and after reading your post, im going to look into better prices, i went with them because i needed 43 Mauser brass and they had it in stock.

i planned on make my next order from western metal and getting the free shipping
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WM sells titegroup for 31$/pound, so close to the price you paid. The free shippers:
-Canada ammo (minimum 200$)
-Western metal (minimum 300$)
-Amazon.ca (minimum 35$, no reloading components, but lots of Lee, RCBS, Lyman, and frankford arsenal tools)
The cheap/free shippers:
-Tenda (hazmat fee on powder, but free shipping on everything else)
-Cabelas(insane hazmat fee on powder, but free shipping on everything else)
-Xreload (no free shipping, but decent shipping cost and low prices, so often ends up cheaper than free shippers, and the best selection on a lot of stuff)

Canam and WM are by far my largest providers. Bullets are heavy and cost a lot to ship, and powders requires hazmat fees, so if you remove both of these fees from the total, they usually end up with the lowest total. 200$ and 300$ minimum to ship free is like nothing if you reload large batches. It'll cost you about 480$ for the components to reload 3000 9mm, so I just order that.
 
I got the same ridiculous message from Cabela's once when I tried to order some Blackhorn 209, so I said I would pick it up at the store. The reply I got to that was that they would not ship it to the store, lol!

For ON residents, +1 for X-Reload, hard to beat their shipping prices for smaller quantities. If you're looking for volume, Higginsons might work out better.
 
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