Are they typically decent discounts? I just received a catalog from Marine Depot and they have better pricing on bulbs and free shipping. This is the first time I've tried a group buy, so I am not sure what to expect.
Well they give us a 10% discount for being BRS members normally so we'd already get a better rate than what's on the site. But this group buy is priced even better. The cool thing about this is I'll give BRS everybody's account info and they active the group buy pricing for a week and you're not locked into getting something. There are enough people that even if a few people back out we'll have over 10...
And this is different than a normal group buy. Usually a group buy is X amount of people shipping everything to one person's house and trying to arrange pickup. You do save on shipping because you split the costs which is nice for ordering livestock where shipping is usually over $50 but dry goods shipping is much cheaper. This group buy everybody ships to their doorstep so it's easier and we get much better pricing...