This point needs to be emphasized! Baker Creek sells seeds with free shipping but their packet price is usually around $5 and they really do have scale. Most other seed sellers charge shipping charges close to the amount they sell their seed packets for.
You can pretend that Fred is selling his Benevento seeds for $1.95 and shipping is $5.00. Wow! What a bargain! Only $1.95 for a pack of a newly released, highly sought hybrid!
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Originally Posted by PaulTandberg
$6.95 for a pack of a new release hybrid tomato seeds is dirt cheap. When free shipping is included...? Wow!
Parks is selling a new hybrid, Marmande Marsalato. $7.95 for five seeds, plus $4.98 shipping. And they didn't develop it themselves and have the advantage of scale in both purchasing and marketing. And Parks isn't making much on their end of deal. It's not an easy business.
And for a small grower/breeder? Sh*t, the only way they can cut it by paying themselves a nickel an hour. It's a labor of love. Bless the breeders. Whether they are picking through the best in a meadow or doing crosses in a lab.
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