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It's Time to Talk Tariffs. (This one's a little long - TL;DR: at bottom). The last thing I want to do is take political sides, so I won't. But there is a stark reality in world trade right now: the current US government administration's on-again/off-again tariffs have created massive instability in world trade, and will, it seems, have resounding effects on the US economy. On a more micro-economic level, it means things are already starting to get more expensive for us, which means (unfortunatel …

Most of our products ship for free, but a few of them don't. Here's why.  Every once in a while, I get someone who asks (or complains) about how a particular item on the site has a shipping charge, and that the charge seems to them to be unreasonably high. For example, we sell a bass stand for around $58, and when you add it to the cart, the shipping (especially if you live on the west coast) could be as high as $40 or more. This might seem unreasonable to most - that's almost as much as th …