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I wish speedy would do that. They are real expensive to ship to me, there prices are good, but shipping puts them out of bounds.
I buy a lot from StockCarSteel great price, and reasonable shipping.
Online is one of my sources, mcMaster, and Metal Supermarkets (but they are usually high), but only about an hour each way.
You always have to check prices around there's quite a difference in prices. Depending on who bought what at what price.
Shipping is only part of it. I'm a small consumer, so I buy what I need mostly... sometimes just for stock, but I have bought up stock. What I need is bigger chunks at a decent price.
I suppose it's a "you can't have your cake and eat it too" situation with Speedy. I drive through Rockford IL usually a couple times a month so I generally just put in a order for pickup and wait because their shipping costs are atrocious.
What I discovered by going into the office is you can get better prices by getting in contact with the in office sales staff and putting your order in through them, and also if you order online the order goes through Wisconsin and might take a couple weeks to show up in Rockford. Orders placed with sales staff directly in Rockford are processed way faster.
The office staff there have been universally helpful which surprised me as a hobbiest who orders tiny amounts of material. If you go in the office they will sit you down with a salesman who seems perfectly happy to enter even small orders and give better than the online price. And the prices generally seem way, way better than other suppliers with a few exceptions to start with. If their shipping was $11.99 flat rate I'd probably never order from anyone else.