Cost of Shipping Records

Here is what I suspect happened. MD defaults to an express shipping option unless you actively select otherwise (even if the free shipping applies). The rate you were quoted was an express rate (i.e. USPS Priority Mail or FedEx 3 day). You should have opted for a Media Mail rate which (by my quote from the USPS web site) would have been $10-15 or so. It’s a real bug in the MD web site that they force you into this super expensive priority shipping -- many times I’ve had to call them to have them reverse this for me. Did you try calling them and having them correct it?

Thats a welcome outcome @joenies I'm glad MD did the right thing. I generally find them a very fair firm to deal with, they're reversed orders I've made in error for me before now (even after they ran the card) and also dealt with these sorts of shipping issues when they've arisen. Pity these sorts of bugs seem to occur more often than with other sellers but I've no reason to believe it's anything deliberate