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Posted By: scgaynor

The shipping prices may seem high, but they are actually justified most of the time. Most people don't realize the incredible overhead that Mastro and Lelands carry.

Your 15% buyers premium goes to pay for the catalog. The high quality catalogs that you get cost these guys in the hundreds of thousands to produce.

The high shipping charges are a result of these auction houses having to pay 50-100K a year for full time packing people.

Scott