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By DragonsEye
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So I went on Amazon, intending to order a 32 ounce bottle of Captain Jack’s dead bug brew concentrate. When I went to check out, it told me that it can’t deliver that item to where I live for some unspecified reason. But yet if I wanted to order a 32 ounce bottle of the regular stuff that they could send me with no problem. :roll:
By Lain
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I'm in CA so I'm used to certain things having restrictions on shipping. I had something similar happen though where the normal was okay to ship but not the concentrate. When I asked them they gave me the usual excuse about CA laws but when I pushed more they said it's likely the containers are made out of different material and the concentrate container has a material that isn't approved. Then again Amazon is always glitched in one way or another.
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By DragonsEye
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To add to the foolishness, I can get a 16oz concentrate at Home Depot (but the price on Amazon for the 32oz is a LOT better).
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By ChefDean
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It actually makes a lot of sense, but not for reasons most people would think of.
Let's say that 4 ounces of concentrated product will make one gallon of ready to use solution. A 32 ounce container of concentrated product will make 8 gallons of ready to use solution.
Now, let's say that there is an accident while it's being shipped, and it spills into a watershed. A 32 ounce container of solution may require 100 gallons or more of water to become diluted enough to not be harmful to animals that drink from that watershed. And it may take 1,000 gallons of water to dilute it enough to be able to be effectively treated for human consumption. A 32 ounce container of concentrated product is 8 times as strong, and will require 8 times the amount of water to be diluted to a relatively harmless ratio of pesticide to water.
If it takes that much to be rendered "safe", it may be classified as Hazmat in the concentrated form, which requires special endorsements on a commercial drivers license to be able to carry it commercially. You taking it home from Home Depot is different because you bought it, you own it, you're not carrying it for commercial reasons.
So it could simply be a matter of how it's classified as a chemical due to the risk of environmental impact in the event of a spill. If it has a UN number, it needs more than a Class D drivers license to ship it.
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By DragonsEye
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Interesting! I had never heard of a UN #. However, I did try do a little research and could not find any such number nor warnings as to it being environmentally hazardous.
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