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YOu sound weary. The thread has been interesting, and often people don't gather the information in the way we hoped they would. Thanks for the thread. Somebody should send you a free frag for the effort and to support the community. I would send you some chocolates but I'm too poor this month. Maybe later in the year? KHere's an example, LFS pays $60k annually in rent regardless if any frags sold. Lets assume that's all they sell. They expect some larger purchases will offset the smaller sales. They don't expect each transaction to pay a portion of that rent.
Likewise, garage farmer can just assume that $60k in shipping is a cost of doing business in exchange for not paying rent. Hence ignore the recovery of that annual cost per transaction.
If either the home farmer or LFS fails to make enough in sales to offset these costs plus cover other costs including their own salary then both go out of business. In that regard this is a failed business model because it implies there aren't enough sales to support their business model.
I assume the home farmer isn't expecting to survive on sales where it doesn't cover shipping. That's not a business. That's a hobbyist.
In addition, I was very specific in my opening post to imply this free shipping applies to overpriced frags and I went as far as editing it later to specify $100 frag. Was based on seeing online shipping charges by WWC of $39 and just assumed that might be their bulk cost. Been a while since I've shipped animals overnight so I guessed on cost but main point being in the end garage farmers don't have the fix cost of paying rent therefore more leeway to absorb shipping costs assuming they are running a business and same as an LFS expect to generate enough large sales to compensate for smaller transactions.
At this point. I give up. Made my case. I'm sticking to it. Not going to continue explaining it unless asked a specific question vs just replying to assumptions or perhaps I didn't explain myself correctly. It's the internet. Often hard to express a thought and have all grasp it as intended.