Hi all, according to this thread, I'm at the hobbyist level, but I'd kind of like to push it to the serious breeder level. I raise seahorses with occasional success, and being that they're a somewhat specialty item, I want to be able to sell non-locally. But shipping, ho-boy.
So my question is, how does one ship a small number out without breaking the bank? I have a fedex account with the automatic discount, but pricing things out is still insanely expensive. Is there something more I can do? I don't know that I'll ever be to the point where I'm shipping a lot out at once, because this really is a hobby for me. But I'd like to be able to get a reasonable enough discount to ship without breaking the bank.
I'm also wondering about styros. I've just been reusing what I have, but I'm getting to the point where I don't have styros I need, at least not appropriate sized ones. I'm going to start bugging local club members, but eventually I could see needing to buy them. Where do you get them from, with paying an arm and a leg?
Forgive me if this has come up before. I did in fact search the forums, but shipping is such a common word that the results weren't really relevant to me.