tommyxivx said:
i just found out at serpentpets.com...the price for shipping and handling is 23 bux!!! bummer
That's why it is more cost effective to order in bulk. Just add the shipping cost to the cost of mice/pinks and divide by the total number of mice/pinks (this is called dollar-cost averaging--but you probably already do this anyways).
I raise my own colonies, but with many recent snake additions, my colonies have not been able to keep up, so I was forced to place an order. I ordered from RodentPro, mainly because of the sale prices and from what I had read--no major complaints (at least no more than any other company)
I received ~500 mice, weanlings, hoppers, fuzzies, pinks (basically a bag of each size). Cost of the actual pinks/mice was around $65, while shipping was ~$40.00. This came out to an average cost of around $0.21 a prey item--and you really cannot beat that.
As far as RodentPro quality goes: very little bedding, very little feces, no urine; my only complaint was the bag of weanlings had an array of sizes--pinks, fuzzies, hoppers, weanlings, and small mice--I'm not really sure what they were smoking when they packed up that bag. Everything was frozen when I received it--probably due to the 15 pounds of dry ice (that's the bulk of the shipping cost, because of the 2-day service).