Originally Posted by
achoo
Sooo, we're supposed to pay a 50% markup for THEM to order it.
But we wouldn't have to pay shipping?
WOO HOO, way for the LBS to add lots and lots of value there.
Are you serious?
Every single retailer is going to make close to a 50% margin on their products. Even the online ones. Sometimes the online ones only make 40% so that they can undercut the local stores.
An online store just doesn't sell you the product for what they buy it for, they wouldn't make any money that way. They still have a whole bunch of overhead to pay and then they have to make a profit on top of that.
Besides, the value of the LBS here is that the OP wants a product that a consumer can't easily get directly, but a LBS can.