I have to add that I hate shipping costs as much as the next guy and unfortunately gas prices rule the world so everything goes up.The moral of the story is never, ever backorder, get on the
notify list then order.
I always play the shipping game with Midway. I just had
special Birthday Pricing
so had a bunch of stuff on my wish list, the day I go to place the order,
bamm, the one main expensive item I wanted went out of stock. So I didn't order anything.
Looked at Natchezz and everything was in stock at less than my "special" price, shipping was about the same (except their extra $3-4 hidden handling fee) so I ordered there.Delivery was way slower than Midway but I don't care.
Take the one item shipping at Midway and see how much more you can add to the shipment before the shipping price changes.