Who is selling banded crickets and hornworms out there?

[Ceycham]

Bonus if you have Dubias also. I'm looking for 500 large crickets and 25 smallish hornworms plus extra feed. Maybe 50 dubia. Anyone running reasonable prices right now? I don't know what's happening out there effecting costs but I'm finding the online folks either charging unreasonably for shipping or driving insect prices up.

 

[VerucaSalt]

Joshes frogs has been far cheaper than our local choices and offers I believe all 3.

We didn't get a single dead insect out of 400 shipped bsfl and crickets.

Just check out the snack packs (load your cart with these to compare cost), then try the free shipping bugs in your cart, it ended up being cheaper for us to pay shipping.

 

[Ceycham]

Joshes frogs has been far cheaper than our local choices and offers I believe all 3.

We didn't get a single dead insect out of 400 shipped bsfl and crickets.

Just check out the snack packs (load your cart with these to compare cost), then try the free shipping bugs in your cart, it ended up being cheaper for us to pay shipping.

Yes, Josh's has been our go to. And I finally figured out what the problem is. Their free shipping offer is actually charging customers double shipping. I'm incensed about it. Free shipping crickets cost $24 for 500. Regular (not free shipped) crickets cost $9.99 and shipping is $8 (including other items in the box!).

 

[VerucaSalt]

Glad someone else noticed this wasn't correct!! It was about 30% the original ship charges to order the specific mix of snack pack I needed vrs using the free shipping bugs.

 

[Ceycham]

I just had a long chat with a representative there. They readily admit that their free shipping is just tacking on shipping charges to the price. They insist this helps somebody to offer free shipping. I'm not clear that it does. I'm sure there might be a magic weight and location ratio that makes $15 a savings in shipping charges to some remote location, but I suspect that 95% of the public can do better than that but paying actual shipping charges. i also suspect many more are overpaying by accident while thinking they are saving.

 

[alan marz]

Check out e-bay if you can. Have had some good success. Might have to try a couple to fine a good one.