I’m a store owner
I’m really actively angry for the community right now. If stores are willing to play ball and extort the community for money, they get more product and if they don’t they get products cut and then distributors jack up the prices on the left overs they refuse to allocate to smaller store. I just checked my distributors web page, they have more blooming waters, refused to ship me more than two, but now the wholesale cost is $85. We sold them for $60 in our store.
Please do not shop from stores that are willing to extort you, and that send the message to distributors it’s okay to do this.
I’m sorry for all of us, because I started my store to grow this hobby I didn’t know it would be a constant moral dilemma.