Yeah I'm not a fan of their shipping rate...because they only have the one option (last I looked) but I can understand it, quick, trusted and I believe it was FedEx...
What I am really not a fan of is the price of the kit...but hey some people really like the MF kit... I wasn't one of them.
He is charging pretty much what the rate is from Modfactory when currency is converted. But I know he didn't pay that price, and probably paid what many of us did on the group buy price.
Total tangent... you want to know the biggest rip off on a singular item?
Titanium knife clips or Micarta/G10 scales... I might invest into a small CNC and start making G10 and Micarta Scales for knives... big bucks in that scam market.
For example: MXG and Casey Lynch deep carry clips...
Lynch Clip $30 (Includes Shipping)
MXG Clip: $30 Includes Shipping
China $4.74
All 3 Titanium, all funky ass blue... all do the same thing.
Heck its almost worth mass buying 1000 of the China ones and sell them for $15+ $3.95 flat rate postage.
and yeah the price per drop significantly when you buy in bulk from $4.74 each to like $3.29...
Lynch Clip are life time warranty, MXG are not, and neither are the China ones... but what stops ya from saying it has a life time warranty... the only way a clip breaks is if it snags, which isn't normal use failure
So $3290 investment, plus $500 shipping...$3790 for 1000.
Sell at $15 or $15000-$3950 (Shipping of each in total)
$15000- $3790+$3950= $7260 profit...
BUT Don... that is only for one knife... well not really... it covers a multitude of knives from Spyderco which utilizes the 3 hole configuration...and an example of how popular Spydercos are... a recent release of the Paramilitary 2 in CTS-204P had 628 unit run 2 days ago, and sold out in a day ( I grabbed 2 btw lol ) and this doesn't stop you from doing the same for some other knife types...
Anyway... just ranting about pricing lol