Yeah, you sometimes have to be careful with the third party sellers on Amazon...my experience has been if a third party has it a cheaper price, they make up for it in the shipping costs...What I usually do is add the same product but from different vendors to my cart...then go through the checkout process, almost to the end, to see what shipping costs they each add...It's amazing sometimes what the difference is...especially say, when two third party vendors are located in the same city...