And for now...

Right now most of my time is getting eaten up between work and massage school. I had my first "practical" class yesterday and found myself completely exhausted afterward. Now I've spent the last few hours researching massage tables. I've been trying to figure out what is the best price/package to get for what I need. There are so many options though, and its such a huge chunk of money that its hard to figure out. Plus there is the question of tax, shipping etc.

My school offers a discount on a specific line of massage tables from a company called "custom craftworks." The catch it that the discount almost completely disappears between the cost of tax and shipping. There is actually a place in town that I can buy the same tables without the shipping cost that also have a discount on the manufaturers suggested retail price. I have also found several websites that offer free-shipping (paid for by custom craftworks) of the same tables.

All this makes me wonder why CC doesn't offer free shipping to my school, and why everyone else seems to get the same (or better) discount than my school. Perhaps the MSRP is just inordinately high. Though I'm not sure what some of the local places are offering in their "packages." Presumable the websites that ship from other states would not require me to pay tax (or so I'm hoping) which would mean if there is also no shipping charge potentially a $90 discount. But who knows how long it will take to get the table (urrrrrrrrrgggh).

They won't tell me before I fill out their little forms telling them where I live, and where to send their junk mail too etc. Maybe I should try ebay...