Heritage-Angler
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JackM wrote:
Here's an example of a small shop that has a thriving business because they learned to compete with big box outfits for mail order business: http://littleriveroutfitters.com/store/home.php
A section of their shipping policy on mail order business:
Free Shipping – We don’t think you should be charged for shipping and handling. After all, it costs us less to handle mail order transactions than those here in the store. So we pass that savings on to you as long as you don’t mind ground shipping in the continental United States. We do charge our actual cost above the normal ground shipping for expedited service or shipments made to countries outside the continental United States.
Granted, they are a destination shop, but their mail order business helps them keep volume up so they can get some discounting by buying larger lots of products. This seems like a smart adaptation to the way business is done in the 21st Century.
Sometimes you get what you pay for. Other than hooks and a few tying tools, there are no other tying supplies available on their online catalog. No mention of a free mailed catalog for tying materials either. I guess one could just call them up and order over the phone, hoping the prices they DON'T advertise wouldn't take the order over the point where you'd still be saving that $7.50 on the shipping. I wouldn't hold my breath. How is the quality of their tying supplies? What if you get the order, and the stuff is poor quality? How many times does someone have to get burned by poor quality to realize that sometimes, you get what you pay for?
Little River Outfitters = an unknown
FFP = known quality - vouched for by lots of folks right here.
I'd rather just pay the $7.50.......