Pond Boss Forums Thread Like Summary - What's up with the scuds?

Anyone heard from PLM about scuds yet? I'm still waiting for them to respond to my email from weeks ago. I'm beginning to wonder. I know this is a real business cause I drive by it often. They have a bunch of land and I see signs around the area indicating land that they are managing for folks. Wonder why we can't get more response from these guys. I only drive by there when I go to our lake place. If it wasn't a 2 hour drive I'd run on over there just to kick them in gear. I'd bet they all duck hunt and since we're in the middle of the season that may be the excuse but geez!

I have had people request that I ship fish to them. I tried doing it last year, and the cost and more importantly the time associated with doing it made me put on the website that I am NOT going to ship fish any more.

It takes about 45 min to an hour to catch, count, bag, add O2 to the bag, then double bag, then source a Styrofoam cooler, source a cardboard box to put the cooler in, source a cold pack and make the label. Then it's another 1/2 hour (and 25 miles) each way drive to the UPS center to ship them.

I quickly found out that with the way shipping companies are run today, it's pointless to ship them any other way than next day air, for delivery by noon the next day.

My question to the people that think shipping and handling is too much, what would you charge for 2 hours of your time plus 50 miles? Then add in the shipping supply cost and the actual shipping cost (plus overhead to pay for taxes, etc.)?

I don't know where he's getting those shipping estimates but I think he's really underselling the cost of shipping.

I don't know if this has been covered yet but PLM scuds are not unreasonably priced but they are crazy expensive to ship.

As an example, I just tried to ordering 1/2 gallon (the smallest amount they sell) of scuds. For them to be delivered from Minnesota to Pennsylvania, it will cost $340.

Below is the current price breakdown I'm seeing:

Your Final Total
Total For Products: $ 75.00
Shipping & Handling: $ 339.56 (to Indiana it is $307)
Tax (MN orders & pickup only): $ 0.00
Grand Total: $ 414.56

I can never justify paying 3-4x more for shipping than I do the product itself. Just know that before you buy scuds from PLM. Shipping is the real killer.

On the other hand, Goliad (who I believe sells Gammarus scuds) charges $45 for 1 culture (1000 scuds) and shipping is $50. Not great but a heck of a lot more reasonable than what PLM charges to ship