Quoted from pete_d:

Yeah, but they're also not charging $18 for something that could easily be shipped USPS.
Memotronics is $2/box more than PBL, but with a $12 differential in shipping, you'd have to get 60 bulbs (6 boxes) just to break even ordering from PBL instead of Memotronics.
I don't have anything against PBL, they're a reputable dealer of course. But it's annoying that their shipping costs are so high, and I'm happy to reward other companies who still have a slow and cheap option available for when I don't have enough stuff to buy to hide the high shipping cost from the cost-conscious part of my brain.

Quoted from mrm_4:

Shipping was $4.88 they’ll be here in 3 days

Quoted from pete_d:

No controversy. I wasn't doubting you got the shipping you did. Just pointing out that whatever option you used, is not available to all customers. For whatever reason.
I'm happy for you that you can get reasonable shipping. Your experience doesn't change that of those of us who can't.

Quoted from mrm_4:

Yeah there was some confusion on the shipping
Pete was thinking that the $4.88 was offered by PBL
I was just stating that I got the bulbs shipped for that from memotronics
Until this recent back and forth I didn’t realize that PBL only ships UPS at $18. Ooooof
Coyote was simply stating that memotronics doesn’t make the bulbs which I took as some kind of dig on me from buying them instead of PBL but I was trying to prove that there’s a difference between the 2 from memotronics and PBL. Which was an attempt to explain that it doesn’t matter where they are made the bulbs are clearly behaving different. Which apparently wasn’t in debate.
This whole last bunch of 20 posts or so have been just a shit show of misunderstandings. Wtf happened?
I was just trying to show I found some sweet 455s