OK... so I can have the hugging 3-footed bears for a price within my budget (excluding shipping). She says:
"I will do the double bears for you for $... but I can't include shipping. The wood here is expensive and hard to find and I'm sorry for that! LA sucks for wood so I have to travel far and wide to get it. The site needs to be updated since the prices are from the early 2000. Can you manage that?"
I did poke around and see that palm wood is actually pretty expensive.
She also says that "the site needs to be updated". Hmmm... ponder and consider... ponder and consider... do I dare offer to do that for her in exchange for some $$$-off the price?
And about those
three feet... what would be a TACTFUL way of mentioning it???