On Thursday, August 28, 2014 9:47:59 AM UTC-4, nestork wrote:
'CRNG[_2_ Wrote:

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Maybe shipping cost (air or sea) to non continental locations?





No, I kinda doubt that would be it since the shipping costs are normally

borne by the customer. That might be the case if they offered FREE

shipping, but in that case they could just say "free shipping to the

contiguous 48 states". Then, someone in Alaska would have to reimburse

Home Depot for the higher shipping cost by simply paying more for the

item (with the shipping costs included in the bill).




Say the shipping more than doubles the cost of the tank and HD knows that
local stores, etc have the product at reasonable prices, so shipping them is ridiculous. So maybe they wanted to save customers the
time of screwing around, figuring out the shipping cost and then never
buying it anyway.