I get the point of always trying to get free shipping, I'm not against shipping. What I meant was looking for flavors. It wasn't necessary, was going to give fw circus peanuts a try. Riversupply doesn't have it, bullcity doesn't have it. Only place I'd found it was straight from flavor west. No other fw flavors I was interested in, so there's one purchase with a shipping fee for 1 item. Then I wanted to get guanabana, riversupply didn't have it, bullcity did but was sold out of smaller bottles. So the smallest bottle I could get to 'try' is $10, I don't like spending a ton or getting a big bottle just to try a new flavor and find out it's a nasty flavor I can't stand. Flavorah's site did have the smaller bottle of guanabana in stock, nothing else I wanted from flavorah to justify it. There's another 1 flavor from a separate place and separate shipping.
That's what I was getting at. Not trying to buy a single flavor here and a single flavor there and rack up $30-40 in shipping because each place wants $5-8 shipping. That's just retarded. lol. I wouldn't drive 30min out of my way to save $0.05 a gal on gas, but I'm sure as hell not trying to drive all over town and get a gal of gas from each gas station. Also online ordering is nothing like driving around, it's all shipped to home.
The issue I had with bullcity, their small tester bottles are 10ml. I added up the same cart at river supply but with 15ml flavorings. Off sale the price at riversupply was the same as the bullcity cart with 15% off and the majority of items I was planning to get to try out had 50% more product. Plus it was enough to get free shipping at riversupply where I wasn't even close with bullcity. There were only 2 flavors riversupply didn't have that bullcity did, at bullcity they amounted to $8.50. The cart price at BC was $57 with the sale discount, the price at riversupply was $50.89 off sale. Less the two items to make it fair/identical, $50.89 and 390ml of flavoring regular price vs $49.78 for 320ml at BC with a sale. Just kind of bummed that a sale barely made them competitive on price at face value, less so when considering the 20% less product for the same price. And while BC still had a couple other flavors riversupply didn't, they were still lacking enough I'd have had to go to 2 other places and pay shipping there and there.
In the end probably for the best. Mail around here hasn't had the best track record. A friend tried to mail me something, it took off on an adventure to an out of way state entirely and though it was mailed in advance of the holiday it's been in limbo for close to 2 weeks now on priority shipping. Another package sent to her son got returned as no known address. Yet another package she was expecting also ended up in Memphis for no known reason out of the way lol.