"LRod" > wrote in message
...
> On Sat, 04 Dec 2004 02:55:23 GMT, Michael Siemon >
> wrote:
>
> >In article >,
> > "Ellen" > wrote:
>
> >> Well I did that and I don't find the direct source -- I find a lot of
other
> >> places selling the grinders ... I would like to remember where I bought
it.
> >
> >Try:
> > <http://www.peppergun.com/products/magnum_plus.html>
>
> Based on everyone's recommendations I ordered one tonight. Very
> interesting experience. I did a search and got lots of hits. There
> were several vendors with attractive prices ($41.95 seemed the lowest
> and was quite a common price) but they were nearly all out of stock.
> The Amazon price (actually cooking.com partnered with Amazon) was
> $41.95 but with $8.95 for shipping brought the total to what should
> have been $50.90 but showed at checkout as $52.90. Hmmm. I skipped
> that order and went back to the search.
>
> Pricegrabber showed only cooking.com but using their calculator came
> up with the correct $50.90. By that time I was plenty irritated. $8.95
> to ship something that weighs less than 2 lbs?
>
> Then I tried another Amazon partner (cheftools) and they wanted $10.95
> to ship!!!
>
> Back to the search. I found one for $45 plus $4 for shipping to
> peppergun. At this point, no matter how stupid it may sound, I was
> much more interested in paying a reasonable shipping rate than save a
> couple of bucks on the product price.
>
> Yeah, yeah, I know. It's just like trading in a car on a new one.
> They'll give you a great trade-in allowance but the price of the new
> car won't be as low as the price your buddy got without the trade.
> They're going to get you somewhere.
>
> $11 for shipping, however is no better than those TV merchants that
> charge 30-40% of the stated product price for "shipping and handling."
> Handling? Isn't that a rent that should be built in to the price? This
> is one of my huge pet peeves on TV marketing and the main reason (junk
> being another) that I will not buy the products.
>

I bought 4 Magnums @ $31 each from Unicorn and the shipping was $4 for the
whole lot. I couldn't justify a new mill for myself so I bought them as
gifts for family, along with a pack of telicherry peppercorns from Penzeys.
But I seem to have "mistakenly" ordered one too many. Darn, I'll just have
to keep it.


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