Back to the Eurodesert/Heirloom comparison. This is probably the most ludicrous part of it. Take another look at the relative sizes of the boxes they sent. Here's a link in case you don't want to scroll up:
http://garden.org/thread/view_...
Eurodesert's shipping charge for the huge box is $11.61. Heirloom charged me $26.20 for shipping the teeny-tiny box.