I did a painting for a customer a few years ago.....had I only known it would cost $80.00 to ship it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :) the longer story was I took it down to the shipping place and they told me $20.00. That was okay, sounds reasonable. Then when I got it done, tried to ship it, they said $80.00 --- and wouldn't back down!!!! Weather was bad, couldn't get to the nearest large town to go to another place...and he wanted it for his wife's birthday. Ironic that I ended up paying for his wife's gift!!!!!!!!! BTW - never used that shipping place again.