Excellent design, good construction, damage-free delivery. It could have been an wonderful deal. But it's regrettable that I got no credit for the "free" shipping I would have enjoyed if I were a resident  of the 48 contiguous states. I was charged full-rate shipping to Hawai'i at an extravagant cost. Hawai'i is one of the 50 United States. We pay federal income taxes, the same as the other 49 states. Hawai'i is no more distant from the contiguous 48 states than New York is distant from California. We residents of Hawai'i understand that shipping to us costs somewhat more than to many other states, and we're accustomed to paying *sur*charges -- but when vendors offer "free" shipping to purchasers from other states, in fairness they should  credit us for whatever they actually pay for the average "free" shipping to those other states. Otherwise, they're discriminating against citizens of the United States on the basis of their geographic location within the United States.